Thread regarding Oracle Corp. layoffs

Guess? Who is offering high Salaries along with Big Fat Pensions and your likelihood of being laid off is slim? pOLiCe

@q0
Feel Envious is normal, but avoid letting it turn into Malicious Envy

I fkg love all this "My neighbor the police officer" as the authority of all things, so hilarious, keep it up lol

My motivation was RIF’d when they RIF’d everyone else!

Don’t say NO to your boss unless you’re already FIRE. A manager can set you up by placing you on a Performance Improvement Plan as a way to force you out. These tactics are often used to retaliate against employees.

@bk Lollipop? I suppose it’s just a cookie. As they say - no raises this year.

Your manager is probably being yelled at by his manager
And this trickles down to problems for you!
I would ignore it and work as before, if they complain either hire more people or fire you because you have "low performance"
Just be ready to be the next one. People say skill up, etc, but I say just make sure you have emergency money to live on if you need to cover costs - if you can ofc.

The typo in the headline made me wonder if the manager was offering donuts or lollipops as an incentive to work harder.

@ax The beatings will continue until morale improves.
A very common saying at Oracle indeed.... ;-)

Can you train AI to find you a new job?

"you need to train AI on the low value tasks that are time wasters, in order to free yourself to concentrate on higher-value work. "
I think you mean... in order to free yourself from your job here entirely? They said the same thing about BizProcess & IT Outsourcing in the 2000's - it's so you can focus on what you do best... then they fire everyone in IT. Delulu

I was in this position about 2.5 years ago, I got a new job with a massive raise.
There’s hope but start looking NOW.

The beatings will continue until morale improves.

@OP You aren't accountable or responsible for the issues caused by the headcount reduction.

People weren't chosen based on performance ratings and your employer isn't offering an incentive to take on additional tasks or work extra hours.

Just tell your manager that you are delivering what's achievable with the current resources.

They can catch the heat and the fallout.

I told my manager I can only do what I can and there is nothing else for me to improve. He was not happy but who caresssss…

I'm getting bad vibes from you and I'm thinking like maybe you aren't a team-player?

Yep, you need to train AI on the low value tasks that are time wasters, in order to free yourself to concentrate on higher-value work. That's what my team is doing. IMO more important than ever to prove that we are team players.

Your manager is probably telling you what we've heard so often lately too: Use AI to work more, faster! That's why we boosted your expectations AND our excuse for firing so many, because AI auto-magically does it for you. Just yesterday my own manager used AI to answer a technical question he didn't understand - answered the ? w a bunch of em-dash SLOP that made no sense. No one even said "huh?". It's become a game of charades, soon AI will be asking AI why AI didn't code faster than the engineer it replaced.

Next time when your manager loads you more work and tasks taken from your laid off teammates, show him astonisment, as per uncle Larry exposee: people is not needed - AI will do everything and redirect your manager to AI. That’s the point! 😁

How come they want you to do more work when AI is supposedly solving every problem magically already? Tell your manager to just ask AI, perhaps he didn't get the memo.

Comgratulation for you for being strong with response to your manager. Suppose it’s getting closer and closer to eat the rich.

yes that his their point!

Are the engineers using that new interface yet? That's supposed to be heavily using AI to resolve SRs, probably why they laid off engineers when everyone KNOWS we don't have enough.

Don't argue, just don't do it. Fu-k them.