Thread regarding Oracle Corp. layoffs

I felt I had to disconnect from anyone I had been talking to recently. I just couldn’t keep from doing it.

I feel scared. I feel depressed. I feel paranoid, like someone is watching me. Someone in Hyderabad was looking at my website and I checked my peekers list, but it doesn’t look like they were looking at my code.

I feel like I shouldn’t be here.

I don’t know if it’s just me or something here that triggered that.

The same thing happened a little while after I left Oracle. I felt like I had to disconnect from anyone working at Oracle. And I did. It was such a relief after I did it. Like I just had to do it.

There was a post on here at one point with the words SHINY OBJECT in it. Repeated over and over. I tried to read it but couldn’t. It was like the screen became so bright I couldn’t look at it. I couldn’t come back to look for a couple of months.

Later KP tried to use the phrase again. I have the post IDs for that. But it didn’t work. After he tried it a few times I told him that didn’t work anymore and he stopped.

Definitely can be affected by things written here. They really don’t want me to talk to you. Which means that I really should keep talking to you, but it’s hard right now. It will fade I think.

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You know of which you speak. a few things to also consider. First, all HR people su-k. I think you have to have the soul burnt out of you so you can work in a department like that, Oracle's being the absolute worst. Second, while many companies (the best ones) DO care about their people and work hard to take care of them, life moves on with or without you. If without you, you are left behind. It is just how life goes, so remember what I posted below. Sacrificing yourself for your work and company leads to nothing but sadness. So stick around for your family friends even your dog. Whatever excuse you can think of. You'll be missed where it matters most.

I’m no longer at oracle but my two sense. First to the man who posted about his wife; absolutely spot on. It reminds me of my mom who died at 61 after working her but off so many years. Second, I got a first hand account by an absolutely horrible HR woman who was so lacking in common sense, understanding, just human emotions and empathy and just flat out logic. She lived close to the area I live in now, which she knew wasn’t some ritzy or well off area. Over the course of 4 weeks, after I got a promotion, she said I didn’t deserve a raise. Even if it was .0000005%. It was this conversation that made me realize that there are just horrible people (her being one) that work at oracle and that the terrible people, their lives will be impacted. I promise you that.

I’ve since had jobs at two companies and one for almost 65% more and then another for 35k more.

Oracle does not care about human beings.

Period.

Listen, I posted elsewhere previously, but I guess some people might not have seen it o maybe need reminding. DO NOT KI-L YOURSELF FOR YOUR WORK. Do I need to repeat that? I saw first hand what happens when you put in 80 hours of high stress work a week and what it does to your mental and physical health. My wife was an art director for a very successful R&D firm. They kept growing but never got her any help. the more hours she worked, the more she got piled on. I asked her, I BEGGED her to slow down, let it break so maybe they'd get her some help. She told me know, she couldn't let anyone down, that they relied on her. I told her that she'd be forgotten a month after she would leave, that place isn't worth what it was doing to her. One by one she started to acquire a number of health issues until one day, they laid her off. Just like that. By that time, it was too late. She did start her own business and was quite successful. But the damage was already done and by the time she was no longer able to work anymore, she was pretty much wheelchair bound. In her last days she told me that I was right and she should have listened to me and she was sorry. She passed at 61 with a list of things wrong with her so numerous it would be easier to say what was NOT wrong with her.

I am not looking for sympathy here so please save it for people with fresh wounds. All I am trying to show is that if you think it cannot happen to you, you are so wrong. It can and most likely will if you don't take care of yourself. It happened to us, it will happen to you. Also, you will be forgotten 5 minutes after the door closes behind you so sacrificing yourself is a wasted cause. The damage you can and will do to your family isn't worth whatever money you make.

Find something else, even if it means a little less money, you will more than make up for it in the long run with your good health and sanity intact. Nothing can get back what I lost, but if one person actually listens to me, I'll take it.

Congratulations! It is shaky ground & thanks for sharing that there are good offers out there. I think you’ll see just how dysfunctional Oracle mid mgmt is. It is ahameful.

I don’t want to build my house on shaking ground. I’m out of here. This article only underlines what I felt already.

I could not agree more with the article! This is exactly what has happened to me, joined 1 year and 3 months algo and since then I have seen : global layoffs in my country and the rest of EMEA in OCI and non OCI and all BUs… afterwards isolated layoffs of some colleagues in my BU and after a reorg with the uncertain future that that means…

I got a better offer from another company , Oracle did counter offer me (surprisingly) but still decided to leave , I hope I dont regret but bettter leave now that I am still 45 and capable of finding something else ….