People are drowning in work! We can’t get to half of the things we need to be doing because so many have already been laid off that it’s physically impossible for the rest of us to get it all done, and yet I keep hearing about more layoffs all the time. When will it be enough?
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@ef very well said. acquisition monster. I just removed all the meat from my oracle jobs from my resume. no one cares.
@dg I was hired at a small company. I really didn't even know what they all did. I learned quick. I also learned that we were putting together data for O to buy us. So they buy us and people are laid off and I still have a job. Doing stuff a 10 yr old could do. So I'm like phew. I got a job. I had no tech skills. No one, esp my manager, could really teach me anything cause they had no skills as well. So for few years I just got used to the Oracle world, then I took a job as a consultant...self taught myself an app. They stuck me in some terrible support role cause it was constant $$$, but I was done learning after 6th month. Through discrimination, the director kept putting her friends on projects...until I just became better than all the other consultants and said I would quit if I didn't get moved. So they moved me. So for 6 years I was a consultant. I thought mgmt had some idea what they were doing. They didn't. No career planning. Lots of discrimination. I tried to look above it and continued to learn tech skills from comm college, online, etc. Then I moved out of consulting. Not cause I didn't like it. My mgmt didnt care about my well being, my family, me personally. All they cared about were keeping the lights on from all my billable time. 25% of that was pure fraud. Easily couldve gone to court. Then I took a role to get back at all of them...basically working 10 hour weeks, getting paid for 40 and enjoying my life and traveling. By the time that was done I got into another area of tech. Again learned as much as I could and have since gone on to 3 companies of my choosing to work in that sector. Where is my old team/dept? still groveling for work, doing useless cr-p, same babysitting, no career pathing, not doing anything that is gonna excite them or even bring them happiness. The fat cats still sitting there....still never learned one technical concept. I could say I wasted 15 years at Oracle, but I could retire today cause I wasn't wasteful with my time and learned how to make money on my money...and build my skill set. I couldve taken a 14.99 course from Udemy for all that I learned at Oracle. Now, I can say this, my time at Oracle was spent with the acquired company...but then Oracle kept adding to that group and flooding the place with "new shiny toys".....people from other companies that were a joke, but that got looked at rather than the people who made you. Still some of the worst people I've ever been around. If you sabotage someone else's career or purposely point them in a direction to make sure they don't succeed, you're pure evil. My Oracle mgmt...they did that. They esp hated some guy who was there for like 5-7 years who was already better and more respected than the old guard who couldn't think outside the box if they stood outside the box hhahahahahahahahahaahaha. circus.
boomers execs still think ai is magic. in my ic5 dev and arch workload it can help with around 5%.
Given that you will have a big fat target on your back when RIF time rolls around again. You have to figure out how to make that 5% number bigger, regardless of how unrealistic that may seem.
Ahhhhh, the joys of working at Oracle!
@d4 they are not even tech fantasyland (over terminated or internal tools, often nothing worth to mention in your resume) - just aquisitions always hungry monster.
Uhhh, if the Oracle experience shows so poorly, how did you get your new job then?
And if it you are so smart, why did it take you 15 years to come to these conclusions?
Stop. Oracle is like the fantasyland of tech. People doing 37.5hrs a week. Working like 10 of that. Your jobs are easy. Stop it. I worked there for 15 years. My mgmt. They did nothing. People around me. Their "busy-ness" was all created by them saying "I am so busy". I never saw so many people in my life act busy. Want to be busy? Leave Oracle and work at a real shop or a startup, doing 3 jobs for 1, 24/7, doing real hands on work. My 15 years there. Easiest time I ever did. A joke really. I still laugh today at the geezers still there who I eclipsed in 5 years...when they had a 10-20 year head start. You wanna be around clowns? Join a circus. Oracle is and will always be a circus. I couldn't get a job at Walmart with the 15 years of exp I have from there. Clowns. hahahahaha
boomers execs still think ai is magic. in my ic5 dev and arch workload it can help with around 5%.
"The beatings will continue until morale improves"
@bb this is absolutely accurate and can confirm. At least with contracts they basically trained us to help them get rid of our jobs lol it’s really sad actually
@b7 that's what I was thinking. They have their own AI and are incorporating it into everything, the expectation being that AI can do half their work. I was wondering how that was working out for them.
As per LE:
You need to learn to use AI for repetitive, mindless tasks to free yourself up to concentrate on higher value work.
If you don't know how to do that then schedule time with your manager asap to build your upleveling/re-edu plan. That's Oracle's direction so that's the strategy you should be focused on.
HTH
It will be enough when you leave that place which is getting more and more speedy carousel with AI slaves. Good times have passed. What are you waiting for?
lol if you not happy go get a new job. You are a slave to Oracle , no pay raise , more work and we might terminate you as a thank you!!!
So yes there will be more work but you would be stupid to work harder instead of learning some new skill to pivot once you loose your job.