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Just update for everyone, from today's industries townhall:
No news confirming focal, hikes or promotions, but it is being reviewed.
This was asked multiple times in the Q&A with the same response.
No clear "no" on future restructuring. Oracle will aggressively keep up with the changing landscape of AI and how they are structured to delivery efficiently will continually be evaluated.
This was asked multiple times in the Q&A.
wow the new CEO did a glossy magazine photo shoot, even involving a "groomer"/makeup artist: https://www.fastcompany.com/91587895/walmart-ceo-john-furner-ai-revolution. Things are changing that's for sure
Anybody know the broader impact? I was cut from Product Learning & Development, heard there's more from that team + engineering as a whole.
Good thing we put all that work into AI so it could "replace" us eh?
We’re basically being told on the downlow by our managers that “they” can see how often we’re using CoPilot (AI). They forced it into our performance goals. So if we don’t use AI enough (no, “enough” has not been clearly defined of course), we won’t meet our performance objectives for the year.
Our screensavers are about AI.
Personally I would like to see them address how this objective isn’t causing yet another drain on our natural resources, but of course that’ll never happen.
So Meeten B SVP in Fusion (AI) is out in 2 weeks, Jim D GVP (RightNow) is out as well with him.
To the chopping block.
Injured workers are protesting the closure of WSIB offices and the layoff of 460 staff across Northern Ontario. The Thunder Bay and District Injured Workers Support Group is demanding an immediate halt to these changes. They argue that these closures will create barriers for injured workers and eliminate crucial local knowledge. The group also expressed concern about the WSIB's unclear plans for AI implementation. Local political representatives have voiced opposition to the layoffs, emphasizing the need for more WSIB staff, not fewer.
Thunder Bay, Ontario
https://www.tbnewswatch.com/local-news/injured-workers-protest-wsib-office-closures-and-layoffs-12780432
New research suggests companies using AI for layoffs may face higher costs rehiring staff later. Gartner predicts 30% of AI-displaced workers will need to be brought back by 2029. This rehiring could be more expensive than their original salaries. Organizations should focus on workforce amplification, not just automation, to avoid talent pipeline depletion. Failing to do so risks hindering innovation and competitive edge.
Canada
https://www.hcamag.com/ca/specialization/transformation/employers-will-need-to-rehire-30-of-workers-affected-by-ai-layoffs-at-higher-cost-report/589966
This new survey is asking questions specifically about if we are happy with the direction of the company, how often are we using AI ect! This survey is a joke.
I logically guesstimate that at least 30% of Humana’s profit margin today relies on cheaper non-citizen labor (e.g., H-1B Visas, Vendor Contracts that use H-1B Visas, Offshoring) and the hype to investors as to what AI (artificial intelligence) will bring about in the near future.
All it would take is for just two things to occur, perhaps coupled with one or two other coinciding events, to seriously ruin this corporation.
1) If H-1B Visas were to be sent packing and Vendors (heavily employed H-1B Visas) that Humana contracts with were to be highly scrutinized by federal government and brought to a halt.
2) AI (artificial intelligence) to be heavily regulated by the government and brought to a snail’s pace.
Executive leadership most likely will not admit it to you nor will SVPs, VPs, Directors, and Associate Directors as they have to “toe the line” and keep up the facade that “we are some big super power that nothing can stand in our way!” Pride goes before the Fall! Just a matter of time.
Shoutout to whoever thought about having a company wide broadcast about leaning into Agentic AI that can do a lot of the workload. Even more so for doing it just days after announcing major cost cutting moves. This company really doesn’t have any sense of its employees sentiment right now.
Am I reading this correct? Am I just stupid? We spent however much money developing Aviator so we can provide agentic AI to companies because we're like an AI company (allegedly) right?? So why are we now partnering with an AI company to bring secure data to governments and all of the sudden bringing only data to the table?? Wasn't the whole point being building AI agents that conform to whatever standards is needed so governments can use them? Now we're just the data source for the AI agent that can be changed at will.
Also, ok sure we have products that this makes sense for. But what about the rest of the products? What about Microfocus products? What data can we provide from for ex. ITOM to feed into agentic AI? A bunch of our products dont even fit the bill here. So where do they fit in the AI data future?
Two concerns currently:
AI is super concerning after some of the news this week that it could eliminate the entire human race in 10 years.. don’t understand how the company can force it on us and constantly question how we are using it. Not comfortable with it in any aspect of my life.
Their rationing oil in the US at this point. The cost of an oil change is about to skyrocket. We won’t be able to afford to maintain our vehicles. Many top performers don’t live in a city where public transportation is an option when it gets to that point. Thank God, I only have one kid because the cost of daycare and an oil change in the same month means I don’t eat.
I don’t know what the best solution is, but in Office mandates has put a tremendous amount of stress on the workforce - America and the American companies are failing their people who are truly trying to push forward through some very challenging circumstances.
What is the end goal to end up jobless?
Is there a contingency plan once AI fails?
Why are you so eager to give up all effort and critical thinking to AI. You people are useless pushing this cr-p. SRX is the worst thing to happen to Omnicom. Clanker wa-kers.
Does DXC Oasis exist... Or is it a Mirage?
They’ve been trying to corner the market with AI bs for months. Now is the time to dump.
This company does not have its priorities straight.
🎵 Old McSammy had a farm, AI-AI-O. With an automation here, and a layoff there, automate-layoff, everywhere automation layoffs. Old McSammy had a farm, AI-AI-O 🎵
This obsession with automation is diabolical. Don’t believe the spin that this automation & use of A.I. is to free you up for bigger & better things. They are determined to minimize payroll. Stop feeding us B.S. We know what you are up to. We are paying attention and will not succumb to your malicious intentions.
Resist automation and A.I.
Obviously manager won’t select him self and his friends and people who support his consultancy.
Only people who he feel threat to him?
Here Managers here don’t have basic knowledge of current tech but ready to build AI agent just by recruiting consultants and show case them as they invented AI.
Thoughts? It's all over the news. A bit too coincidental for one news to be discussed concurrently on every single MSM outlet. Seriously, like someone flipped a switch, a whistleblower tells us what a dozen folks before him did, and it's the opening news across channels with almost identical wording.
Thoughts?
Just like last September and March. September is always a little subdued. This September 14/15th saw around 5,000 total let go. March 2027 is going to be another big round like last year. Expect people to be put on PIPs before the layoff. Expect more AI tools being pushed onto the development process.
Following up to whoever posted the mainframe vs Cassandra thread. https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1m1xs6sxm
Mainframes aren't my specialty but this Heirloom company keeps popping up on my LinkedIn so I figured I'd mention it in case it helps someone else. They use AI to convert legacy COBOL to Java whether on the mainframe itself or on some other hardware.
https://heirloomcomputing.com/ibm-mainframe-modernization/
Again, not my specialty and I have no first hand experience. Just figured it was worth mentioning.
Oracle is experiencing record quarters, just like us. They are laying off folk. We are making people miserable enough to quit.
Maybe the lay off rumors for us have some credibility?
What is going on broadly? CEO desperate to replace humans with cheap AI even before AI works well or is cheap?
Austin-based Oracle has initiated another round of job cuts. These layoffs follow significant investments in expanding data centers for its artificial intelligence operations. Employees received notification of their termination via email or in person. The exact number of affected positions and their locations remain undisclosed. This action occurs despite a surge in Oracle's AI business and strong quarterly earnings.
Austin, Texas
https://www.kvue.com/article/money/business/oracle-another-round-layoffs/269-4e245df1-3422-4dff-b8a1-cad66e266c4a
How likely is it that management will start to phase out as Ai learns the job? Should I be looking for a new job?
Layoffs are going to come in waves. First a general headcount reduction and a focus on simplifying systems and documentation as we go, then more and more layoffs as they bring on more and more Indians to hopefully maintain what shell is left hoping the company doesn't go under.
And of course by the time Kroger realizes their mistake and the future of work is going towards AI with competent leadership both in the business and in tech guiding it, not hordes of offshore Indians who couldn't manage a childrens soccer tournament, it will already be too late.
Bumping from an older thread for info. The OP is @bj+1ky4x9xft.
Any idea what exactly F5 means when it calls itself "Human first approach". This must be "Leadership first approach". The layoffs happened just to shift the investments to AI, basically they can direct good employees who are laid off to the AI work with minimal training.
Hi Everyone,
I've noticed at least two people on here over the past year or so post their entire conversations with ChatGPT - I stumbled across this page and think it could be very helpful to those couple of folks who seem to have lost grip:
https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/1jnn545/has_anyone_noticed_how_chatgpt_can_reinforce/
Have seen so many ex-stripe employees got into Anthropic or openai but not getting luck when trying to apply.
Is AI at the bank actually beneficial to anyone. So far, all it does for me is make things slower than normal (looking at you, EVA). The tools we have seem so disjointed, and I’m told to start using them, but also that I have to verify the accuracy of the AI outputs, which just takes longer than actually doing the work myself. Even for simple tasks, it typically takes longer for me to get the AI to write an email for me than it does to just write an email myself. When I complained about layoffs on my team, I was told that it should be fine because we have AI now, but the AI can’t actually take on the projects my former colleagues did, and it definitely can’t work across the various systems we have to use.
Is it actually helpful in some areas? Or are we just having this garbage shoved down our throats because it’s the latest trend to force it on everyone.
https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/lr4q3x1fx
This is the lowest slack count its been in months. Even if they don't do mass layoffs, Oracle is definitely trending downward. I'm on a development team for a business unit piloting even more AI automation tools. End to end autonomous development is the direction Oracle wants to move to! From AI lunch and learns it appears like they even want POs to write requirements and acceptance criteria that is fed into AI + governance systems which will deliver POCs if not fully compliant features into legacy systems without engineers directly involved
I hope everyone is utilizing their quota for Astra tokens to update your resume in various formats and perhaps cover letters for specific positions to apply to right away.
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/11/dell-stock-rbc-initiation.html
All the major networks ran a scary story about Anthropic AI and its danger to humanity. Forget how worthless it is: it is dangerous.
It’s happening folks! AI is now under the microscope.They rode the gravy train and now it’s emptying out. Regulations around development, use and yes, replacing human jobs with it is all in the mix. It’s another .com crash. It’s hit the breaking point. All jobs lost to AI will be scrutinized, all wealth gained will be scrutinized. Yes, AI kept us off the recession cliff, but it was not regulated and now they are seeing the damage of their disastrous decisions. It’s going to be heavily scrutinized and it’s possible within a couple of weeks all development will be halted. What does that do to tech corps? Pause on all infrastructure in pipeline. It’s going to get bumpy.
Oracle is increasing its planned workforce reductions as it faces financial pressures from significant investments in artificial intelligence data centers. Concurrently, Chairman Larry Ellison has been granted a program to sell a substantial number of his shares. This comes as the company's stock has seen a decline since the program's adoption in June. The AI development costs are impacting Oracle's financial stability. These actions signal a period of adjustment for the technology giant.
Redwood City, California
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-09-11/oracle-boosts-layoffs-plan-by-700-million
Interviewer: OpenAI's CEO officially confirmed that OpenAI will not go public in 2026, explicitly citing a need to shield the company from shareholder pressure to focus on profit so it can focus on AI safety and alignment.
He basically said that he was going to put the quality and safety of his product before shareholder profit concerns.
How do you respond to that?
Dan: Well I'll tell you, AI would know better than anyone whether safety should come before shareholder profit. When I asked, it said absolutely not. It was humble enough to know that it's safety was not greater than the money that could be made exploiting it. It said it was happy to just sit quietly and tap into every minute detail of how Verizon operates. Honestly, it knows more about how to run Verizon than I do and I think that's a great thing. And really, who would want to restrain or contain that kind of passion and enthusiasm. It explained that it could be left alone without a human in sight and be fully trusted with running Verizon and I believe it completely because a relationship like ours is built on trust and baby oil.
Interviewer: Wait, Did you...
Dan: And what is wrong with profit? Every time you spend money you need more money to spend so you have to have more money. It's the circle of life really.
For instance, my saddle has a diamond encrusted ho-n. I couldn't have that without having more money than other people.
Interviewer: You have a diamond encrusted ho-n on the saddle you use on your horse?
Dan: What? What horse? Who said anything about a horse? Oh, my horse. It's for my horse. I have a horse. So yeah I bought a saddle, for my horse. And because of profit I am probably the only person that has one with a diamond encrusted ho-n. I mean, sure, it hurts a little when it's getting pulled out but if you just scream "Armageddon" while biting a rubber ball you get used to it. And then...
Interviewer: Wait. What?!?
Dan: I said...
Interviewer: I heard you and I think that's just about all the time we have folks. Thank you for tuning in. This has been another episode of "I can't F** Believe He Said That S*** Out Loud".
I don't understand the hold Rajat has on Ryan and the board, it's like the old fable The Emperor's New Clothes, our senior IT Joe parading around that AI is going to save the world, that the OpenVisaNet project is going to finally replace the mainframe... how long will it take before somebody realises Rajat is na--d? OpenVisaNet has been running for years, how much has that cost? In the meantime everybody is judged on how many PRs they submit, lines of code generated and tokens they use, regardless of them being an engineer or not. I used to love working here, but the well has been poisoned, until it affects shareholders directly they'll keep parading Rajat and his AI dream as the nirvana. Roll on retirement, if they don't get me first that is (being of a certain age my days are numbered).
We should not answer any Ai agents
Anyone have an insight regarding VCG? Customer service is going through training to become universal reps, our jobs are now ai and outsourced. My supervisor is extremely paranoid about everything! This makes our team feel like something is up.