In my 10 years at Oracle I often paused to think that Oracle was like a farm, where we were supposed to be milking the customers, but recently realized that the customer is not the cow. They are just the hay that feeds the true animals.
The cows, as it turns out are us!
Every quarter we are brought into the barn for processing. The managers use their special grip on our private parts and milk us for all we are worth, but you never know what they want. Sometimes we are asked for gallons of milk, sometimes they want butter, and other times they even want cheese. Whatever the product, milk, butter or cheese, it is the farmer that makes the money!
And when you don’t produce enough milk, it is off to the slaughterhouse for you!