Thread regarding Oracle Corp. layoffs

Silently leaving is exactly what they want. Just line up your ducks in a row, take another job on the side (full time) and scale down productivity while keeping appearances. Collect your severance when it's your time to go and enjoy. That's how you play the system.

@k3 And let us not forget ageism. Even if your skills are up to date, finding another job will arduous if you don't look young.

Add hiring freezes and ghost jobs to the mix and most people, young and old will have trouble finding work, even menial work.

Every few Oracle employees are voluntary leaving. It's because they know three things.
1) Competition for jobs out there are fears.
2) Their skills are dated and not in demand outside of Oracle
3) They can barely cut it and at the end of the year during performance closeouts they are marked below average.

So all the talk from everyone about how they are going to quit is jibba jaba. What they really are hoping for is to survive getting laid off this round so they are keeping their heads down hoping no one hands them a lay-off notice or a performance improvement plan, which is really a firing with no unemployment benefits

The more people that just silently leave the louder the message.

What message? That you will leave without severance?

They'll just import more desperate foreigners to replace you.

This is easy to say but let’s be honest you were never going to leave cause this economy su-ks and jobs are scarce

Nice to hear from HR!