Thread regarding Oracle Corp. layoffs

never ending story

i got cut by oracle in 2018... it was the textboo way to do it... there were rumors of layoffs for a few weeks (then a one to one with my manager)!

a month’s notice, time for handover meetings, plus sh-t trainings for finding a new job or setting up as a consultant. there was also the option of a redundancy pool, along with 6 months of redundancy pay. about 3K of us were cut at that time.

now it seems like when it’s 30K, oracle threw all that good practice out the window and told everyone to f off via email overnight, with all access immediately revoked.

i guess clay magouyrk is a sh-----d who models himself on the musk school of management, whatever that means. safra katz seemed like a decent person who had helped rehabilitate oracle’s corporate reputation to an extant (i have reservations abouth her too) only for it to go down the sh-t-drain again.


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From those that are still @Oracle I'm hearing that yet again the lack of planning for this RIF was at another low level: needed services that all users use no longer have a team in place to support them, so people are not able to do their jobs. Can you say 'lack of productivity? loss of revenue?'
The choices made here were a little too random and lacked foresight, you reap what you sow... Give me some popcorn, retirement watching this from the better side (ie - no longer there) might be fun

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Got laid off under the label of business restructuring, and the way it was handled says a lot about how some companies operate. I understand layoffs happen and businesses make hard decisions, but it is frustrating to see profitable mid-sized companies use restructuring as a blanket excuse while continuing executive spending from a position of strength. In my case, there was no warning, I was in a normal stand-up minutes before being told, and within 10 minutes all access was gone. What is worse is when capable engineers doing meaningful work, especially in AI, are reduced to spreadsheet entries by leaders far removed from the team, product, and reality on the ground. Layoffs may be business, but dehumanizing execution is a leadership choice.

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