One
Rich
Asshole
Called
Larry
Ellison
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Oracle completely missed the jump to cloud and, like Informatica or SAS, it’s been outcompeted by the likes of Microsoft, Google, Snowflake and Amazon for years now.
But hey, that’s not going to go down well with the shareholders, so just say you’re cutting jobs because you’re streamlining your business through the marvels of AI…
That said, who exactly are the people that are being let go? I can imagine the old guard still working at ‘their’ company, but firing young engineers hardly seems like a winning strategy
Yeah this was fun. I got the email on my last day of vacation I took for my honeymoon.
I've heard of much worse those, people that had been there 30+years, a woman 6 months pregnant, and someone diagnosed with cancer, all without insurance now, not that Oracle offered great insurance to begin with. It was UHC.
Look on the bright side, at least they don't have to work for Larry fucking Ellison any more.
First, Epic, now Oracle.
I'm never gonna get another job in software, am I?
I trained as a clown at literal clown school. Everyone laughed at me and told me I should've been a software engineer. Well, no ones laughing now.
The coal miners were told to learn to code, but maybe software engineers should be learning coal mining at this point. With all the AI data centers being built, there sure is going to be a lot of demand for coal.
it's possible. just, if you are looking right now, don't expect the same salary you were getting. Be willing to take a minor pay cut, and be willing to take a service industry job just to get money. (that never touches your resume)
I was in accounting and very underemployed when Arthur Andersen disintegrated. And then again for Lehman Brothers. It was rough, but I got through.
the job search will destroy your soul. take breaks to keep yourself from doing things you will regret.
Minor pay cut?! Try 30% and no work from home. Companies smell blood in the water and low balling salaries across the board.
oof i didn't think it was that bad, i hadn't looked at actual numbers. iirc folk were doing 15-20 cuts back during the crises i was dealing with. wfh was unheard of back then tho, so like i get where you're coming from.
The icing on the cake is that most of the offers are 6mo contracts, no benefits, with the option to hire or extend. This way the company can decide they don't really need the position in six months and walk away with no recourse.
oh, the fuck you contractors special. i know those contracts. it's better to go work retail. they at least will give you benefits and stability.
my outlook might be colored by some incidents but you may have better luck than i have on those six month shit contracts.
Or try to get them to let you work that through your own LLC and triple up. lol
I feel you here. I graduated into covid and then as soon as things started opening again all these non stop layoffs
Just speaking for myself, as a systems administrator, I am actively pursuing my backup plans to get out of IT ASAP. What's coming is topsy-turvy and will be dog eat dog.
We need socialism. Seriously!
If that's NOT another reason to study socialist theory, then I DON'T know what is. Seriously! https://redsails.org/
Larry Ellison looks like the cartoon superlative of the devil
Time to organize
Does he try to look like the devil, or does that apperance just like, manifest itself after doing enough evil?
Remember this is the BEST he can look. The hair color, the skin ointments and surgery, all of it. This is him at his best.
This guy was never a looker.
Also, the gloves are off for the filthy rich, we should attack them on every level, including calling them ugly. Never defend a monster.
No one told him he didn't need to both act and look like a cartoon villain.
this is the male equivalent of those MAGA women with the botched plastic surgeries.
It's a combination of buccal fat removal (apparently everyone is doing this?), hard drugs probably and shit genetics.
He looks slightly burnt, or grilled.
I saw the image first, thought it was bbno$ cosplaying as trump.
How can you afford to own your own island but not afford a suit that fits?
I was thinking the dark side version of president skroob
Fucking nailed it. He looked super familiar and I couldn't place it.
He looks so old that even the botched plastic surgeries are looking old now. Damn he looks frail....
WTF I can't believe thats a real photo. It looks like someone cut two heads in half and then swapped halves before squishing them back together.
I was JUST going to say!! Disney Villain looking ass lmao
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One Rich Asshole Called Larry Ellison
Feels like a month ago they were spending billions on some AI scheme.
Look at that ghoul
Walmart Tony stark is an asshole
This is somehow both an insult to Tony Stark and Walmart. At least Walmart is just old fashioned business bastard evil and not, to my knowledge, apocalyptic techno-feudalist with immorality aspirations that belong in anime or comic books and a fucked up mannequin face
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Anyone taking odds on this being a prepare for the bubble popping vs. the corporate line that it's to invest further into AI?
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