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@ec I know it was, but it was there last year when I got it. Can't look at it NOW, I'm just telling what happened last year that was visible in #watercooler. Who's to say they're not going to do the same thing this year? You just won't have #watercooler to see it.

@at it September, that's when I got it, but people were being let go in August too. Last week or two, #watercooler was loaded with messages from people who got laid off and are there any openings they could move into. Folks responded with yes, we have openings in our teams, but they were too late, the rif'd people already lost access. :(

So yeah, if the next big one is September, it's reasonable to expect that folks might be rif'd in August too.

@b6 That stuff USED to be posted to #watercooler, I was seeing a lot of them before I was let go. I was told they deleted that channel a week or so after I got it. Where ELSE is anyone to post about it? Heh, they SHOULD use #general, they're not going to delete that one.

RIF 950

While we don't know exact count, rumour and water cooler chats are a buzz about ~1k cuts at each location / BU.

Majority of these are are level 6,7,8, squad leads, scrum masters and few 4,5 to make it seem random "business strategy alignment"

Sick joke, FU Bob 🖕🏻

#Cuts #RIF #Rumor #Watercooler

@ak Back end of August (when #watercooler was still there - I heard Oracle nuked it) people were posting they were let go. I looked them up in Aria and they were almost all devops. CM's organization. It almost sounds like they started there.

@OP I hadn't realized this until I saw this post. Yep, it's now "archived." Wonder if it has anthing to do with the post on September 10, 2025 from the Slackbot that stated that #watercooler was added to the OraCorp-Legal workspace.

For those who remain, #watercooler and #wtf have been expunged

The two slack groups in the subject are gone as of this evening. There was a lot of posting from/about laid-off coworkers in #watercooler, while #wtf was ultimately a self-help group (with some blowing-off-steam, and good humor as well).

The death-knell has been sounded, for any semblance of life at Oracle prior to the 2025 layoffs.

I guess we get to keep #dad-jokes, a crumb left behind.

#Slack #Humor

tracking layoff totals

how do you track layoff totals real-time?

the easiest proxy I found is #watercooler slack channel. it was over 40k participants at the start of the day.
it's 39662 now. so it reflects ~1% global workforce reduction in 8 hours
any better ways to track it?

#Layoffs