A 26-year Oracle veteran says the 6 am termination email was 'disgusting, cowardly, and just plain ugly', and that internal politics sealed his fate long before the axe fell.

As Oracle's mass layoff continues to send shockwaves across the technology industry, one affected employee has offered a rare, unfiltered window into what the atmosphere inside the company looked like in the months leading up to the cuts. Oracle fired over 30,000 employees worldwide, with over 12,000 from India via an email.

An impacted employee has shared his thoughts on Reddit, just hours after getting sacked from Oracle. The employee has served over 26 years at Oracle and describes the sacking as a moment of profound personal betrayal, institutional failure, and long-building disillusionment.

Oracle layoff: 'Disgusting, cowardly, and just plain ugly'

The employee did not mince words about how Oracle chose to communicate the end of a 26-year career. "That they didn't bother to do a phone call is disgusting, cowardly, and just plain ugly," he wrote, echoing a sentiment shared widely by thousands of others who received the same impersonal 6 am email from 'Oracle Leadership' on Tuesday with no prior warning.