Keep an eye out for a "Important Business Update" appointment scheduled in your calendar on a Monday or Wednesday Evening. If you see that, you will be RIF'd the following morning. Your computer is locked almost immediately after you are notified, so if you have stuff you want on it, disconnect it from WIFI so you can pull off any personal data. To figure out who else on your team is also impacted, try scheduling a meeting with your boss, and all your teammates that day with your calendar tool. That will give you an overlay of availability. Anyone else with 15 minute slots that overlap with your boss's calendar are getting RIF'd that day too. This will be Oracle's largest RIF yet, they are starving for cash and the easiest way to fix that is by reducing headcount - 8% reduction is likely.
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Where are you getting 8% from? News reports said 20%.
@bh LOL
@ax enterprise engineering sent an email out on 2/6 (at least in US). Security controls were implemented 2/12 including blocked access to 3rd party clouds and exporting to external media drives.
Massive and far reaching indeed. Like a colonoscopy, but with more of a RotoRooter basement-drain-sized bore.
Sounds like you’re looking for a hookup.
@ar laziness, plus some useful tools I developed through years to help with automation of my work, would be a shame to lose them and develop again from scratch in new place.
@ax there was a letter about it, they are blocking everything, including USB drives on your laptops, we are in the middle of the rollout.
This will be massive and broad reaching
Massive and far reaching indeed. Like a colonoscopy, but with more of a RotoRooter basement-drain-sized bore.
@OP is it generic Monday or Wednesday or specific next week. Last time ppl got email Friday night, Monday night even Tuesday night for next day early morning hours meeting
Google Drive is blocked.. is that normal? I swear it used to be not blocked
@ab why would you have personal files on a work laptop?
@a4 nothing new under the sun
get your pay slips downloaded before "business update" call, write down contact details of your boss and teammates (phone, email)
immediately after the call put your laptop to airplane mode and complete download and backing up of your personal files or any other local materials
So, same as last time basically.