Thread regarding Oracle Corp. layoffs

@gm From what I have seen (in glassdoor) it's been slim pickings for over three years now.

A very talented colleague who was riffed several years ago bounced from job to job as he was repeatedly laid off. It got to where coming back to O was his best option so he did, and he was hit in this layoff, less than a year after returning. 4 weeks of severance, I suppose.

The job market, unless you have a high in demand skill like AI, has been tough for a long time. I used to get plenty of cold calls from recruiters (usually Indian dudes). That stopped about 2-3 years ago.

Tech job market is a complete nightmare right now and will continue to get worse.

If you are smart it's time to retrain.

maybe having a woman president wouldn't be such a bad thing after all

@d7 We all got 10% raises every year and no one was laid off. This website had to close down due to a lack of posts ;-)

@cb Yeah, like things were better under Biden

It's late stage capitalism, all those arrows go up are irrelevant to us. It's all bullsh-t. All those ghouls are the same.

US-based companies announced in August plans to add 1,494 jobs,

I read yesterday, it's not what published data states, it is mistake in journalist reporting. Totals are several dozen times higher, but still very low.