Thread regarding Oracle Corp. layoffs

@ap 85 job applications is not even close to being enough. I see people complain about never hearing back and they are literally doing the bare minimum or below (like you) to get a new job.

I was part of the September 2025 Labor Day Massacre, one of the bigger RIFs I know of at Oracle. Total was somewhere around 5000 (or more) before it was over. I was on vacation but got a heads up from a team member to check email and sure enough I had a skip level 1:1 scheduled for early that day.

I delayed an excursion with my wife to join the meeting and put it on speaker so she could listen in. Turns out it was a group layoff of the entire team I was a part of as well as much of the larger org by the GVP. From IC2 to managers and our director, all let go by an impersonal, cameras-off Zoom call to read us all the HR approved script.

I won't repeat here my wife's comments afterward about Oracle in general and LE in particular. Glad I wasn't on the receiving end of that extended commentary!

The state said I was eligible for 30 weeks of unemployment payments, I now have 2 weeks left. In the past 28 weeks I've submitted 85 job applications and been called for exactly 2 interviews neither of which went beyond the first round. I was told by a headhunter that Oracle at the top of a resume was poison unless they had a client with a specific need for someone recently employed there.

Knowing there was a real possibility of a RIF before or at the end of FY 26, I fortunately had a workable plan B ready. Once my checks run out in 2 weeks I'm officially retiring, a couple years of developing my plan B
yielded a sufficient income strategy to allow me to retire and not have to worry about paying the bills.

I have two closing comments. First I sincerely hope for the best to all those now being affected as I was. The job market isn't great at the moment but the broader your skill set the better your odds are. Use the time to learn and get useful certifications. There is a market for AWS, Azure, and to a lesser degree GCP skillsets. Learn one or two and do the intermediate certs, it will make a difference. Second, LE is a narcissistic psycho who truly doesn't give a s**t about his employees. With the increase he saw in his "wealth" at the end of Q2, he could have given every person let go last September $1,000,000 and not even missed the $. Instead everyone got as little as the company thought they could get away with and not be sued hundreds of times over. I hope the AI bubble bursts and collapses Larry's over leveraged empire, he deserves it.

They didn't think to send it to your personal email that they already have on file? Now my laptop is a brick and powers on to the "recovery key" page which obviously is intentional. How am I supposed to access this Docusign email that was only sent to my work mail? What a hot mess.

Unemployment rates are published as U1, U2, U3, etc.

U1 = the number you see everyday. Includes people actively looking for work. 4.4%?
U2 = people who have given up looking or are seriously underemployed. 10%?

A cowardly lack of respect.

Damn that's brutal. You didn't even get the pleasure of a five-minute video call with some Indian VP you've never met and a blonde HR drone named Kelsedeigh or Kaitelynn. That is rugged. "Oracle leadership" are straight-up sociopaths.

@OP Doesn't this make you wonder, what is the REAL Unemployment rate in USA meaning including those who still haven't found a job after 6 months of looking. The gov't only needs to report those who could not find a job from today until 6 months ago. After that, the 4.4% unemployment reported by the gov't doesn't include those who couldn't find a job after 6 months.
After looking at a website (https://www.lisep.org/tru) the true unemployment rate in USA is 25%. That means a quarter of the population that is able to work, can't find a job. And with all these AI tools, that number is going to get larger and larger by the month.

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