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@b6 That stuff USED to be posted to #watercooler, I was seeing a lot of them before I was let go. I was told they deleted that channel a week or so after I got it. Where ELSE is anyone to post about it? Heh, they SHOULD use #general, they're not going to delete that one.
March 10th or March 17th?
Water cooler chatter at NC building 1 has been buzzing with potential RIF being announced mid March.
Can any other BU confirm?
Word around the water cooler?
What’s the latest word around the water cooler? Any update on the operating model or title changes? Or just anything in general?
Thursday
Thursday is a great day because it's right before Friday. How do you guys feel about Thursdays?
Ansys
Anyone here?
RIF 950
While we don't know exact count, rumour and water cooler chats are a buzz about ~1k cuts at each location / BU.
Majority of these are are level 6,7,8, squad leads, scrum masters and few 4,5 to make it seem random "business strategy alignment"
Sick joke, FU Bob 🖕🏻
Anyone ever have a conversation with yourself in here?
Not like anyone would know if you did lol
Anyone missing His highness?
Sir A Witty - where’s he with his gang? Concerned 😒
Sitting around water cooler
It is great that the bravado is back. Everyone knows how good NL and PL is. LFG! What is better than #1? #.01?
What do you think is in the F5 disaster recovery football?
I think it’s a copy of the 14.1 user manual and all of FLD’s crayon drawings
@ak Back end of August (when #watercooler was still there - I heard Oracle nuked it) people were posting they were let go. I looked them up in Aria and they were almost all devops. CM's organization. It almost sounds like they started there.
@OP I hadn't realized this until I saw this post. Yep, it's now "archived." Wonder if it has anthing to do with the post on September 10, 2025 from the Slackbot that stated that #watercooler was added to the OraCorp-Legal workspace.
For those who remain, #watercooler and #wtf have been expunged
The two slack groups in the subject are gone as of this evening. There was a lot of posting from/about laid-off coworkers in #watercooler, while #wtf was ultimately a self-help group (with some blowing-off-steam, and good humor as well).
The death-knell has been sounded, for any semblance of life at Oracle prior to the 2025 layoffs.
I guess we get to keep #dad-jokes, a crumb left behind.
yes tracking members of #general is the way to go
#watercooler numbers can go up or down as other slack orgs add the channel for people to announce they are gone!
I check and now #watercooler is 38537. ups
tracking layoff totals
how do you track layoff totals real-time?
the easiest proxy I found is #watercooler slack channel. it was over 40k participants at the start of the day.
it's 39662 now. so it reflects ~1% global workforce reduction in 8 hours
any better ways to track it?
Layoffs in India started?
Saw in #watercooler the goodbye messages starting to flow