Several people have been let go from my team over the past six months, and others have left for different companies or even different industries entirely. We're missing several critical roles, and nobody seems to care. I haven’t felt like I’m working toward anything, or like I’m part of a larger vision, even just as a small cog in a bigger machine, for a long time. I’m not saying work needs to be exciting all the time, but being overwhelmed by a constant sense of decay is deeply demoralizing.
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I’m unemployed and going back to oracle would still be a hard decision. Not cause of the products but rather the toxicity, lazy people, thieves and the mgmt is the worst in the world. I don’t know that I’ve ever seen so many people sabotage good people’s careers in my life. The mgmt are bottom feeders and they know it. Sc-m of the earth.
oracle has figured out how to maximize stock price and misery at the same time.
quite impressive.
Things are moving fast and Oracle seems to be left far behind. Read one DOGE report not clear but referenced govt waste paying millions to major software company for nothing. Just empty promises. Will be interesting. It mentioned no results, contract broken
So many on point comments.
well may be for the CX person complaining about doing ops work. That’s the new world. You build cr-p In the cloud you get to support it.
it's not about support. it's about unpaid overtime on weekend and public holidays.
‘well may be for the CX person complaining about doing ops work. That’s the new world. You build cr-p In the cloud you get to support it.’
Explain why separate devops team exists if every customer escalation has to be resolved by developer. There are multiple such redundant teams that exist across the orgs. All of them claim to move mountains for the customers. Ultimately the job of all these teams is to harass the developer to do the job. No one is complaining about supporting the customer. The org is completely unbalanced after the multiple layoffs. Need to move the resources from devops and support teams to do real development work and also do support like any other developer.
@zb I am not so sure about the faxed and confused theory. I saw way too many up-chain folks coming up with ideas either from old jobs they had in the 80s or making stuff up because they had never been out in the real world. And patting themselves on the back for how awesome it was going to be. Then getting mad and mandating stuff when employees and managers trued to tell them it made zero sense and wasn’t working. I can’t give those people credit for being smart enough to keep people dazed and confused. The problem is they hire marketing people to do technical jobs, and involve the most unbright people who are yes people to do their bidding. I don’t think they know they are unbright (it’s like unhomed but I am trying not to say stupid as that’s not kind). All they know is someone is kidding their a-s. It’s all su-king up and politics. And mostly di-k waving. Then they wonder why they never get results.
@pr just got laid off myself and the first feeling that hit me was anger but then FREEEEEEEDOM!!!! Moving on to much better things and my health is already improving.
hahahahhahaa. nicknames. my first manager at Oracle didn't know the difference between a printer and a database. total dope. total loser group.
@p6 well may be for the CX person complaining about doing ops work. That’s the new world. You build cr-p In the cloud you get to support it. It’s no longer that premise cr-p that you just hoped customers would never find the support number for. May be rather than complaining start building code that actually works for the cloud. You will enjoy your weekends more. Failing that try and find a job at one of those premises software companies that are about to go extinct.
Lovin' the nicknames there, I LOLed.
O was like this the 15 years I was there. It lives off chaos theory. My old manager, "Bowl Cut Bob", everything needed to be done yesterday or "SVP MaryAnne" would not be happy. Meanwhile, the stuff that needed to be done was like stuff I now realize a 10 year old could do. This is very much how it is and will always be. They love that you're always confused, in a daze, unaware, and no clue what you're even logging on to do.
There's always early retirement.
If this decay was a tooth, they would pull it!
Good grief, OP! Get off your fat chops and find another job outside of Oracle.
Perhaps it feels like that because everything IS falling apart!
Oracle is like a rusty old merry go round at a park. Sometimes we get thrown off, and it’s our job to dust ourselves off and move forward, either with the O or forging a new journey at another company. Please remember our health is all that matters. Peace and love..
our department in CX hasn't hired a single person for the past 3 years and gradually fired around 70%. now we are forced doing production support over weekends and public holidays in addition to our regular development work.
Wait til you find out about the corruption within mid mgmt. . There is much history available about ATL .. blah blah blah..
Hey, SEC guy! Long time, no spew from you! How's it hanging?
If you can keep your head, while all those around you are losing theirs,
you'll be doing all the work!
Do more with less, for less.
Hiring freezes and then overtime is required which burns out those who remain.
Add in derisory pay increases ... if any at all and you get an unhappy workforce.
Wait til you find out about the corruption within mid mgmt. . There is much history available about ATL mid level VP and USPTO that also has ties to offshore illegal activities. So far reviews are good for manuscript heading to publishing soon.