https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.forbes.com/sites/lizryan/2017/11/02/ten-reasons-good-employees-get-fired/amp/

Why Everyone Should Get Fired At Least Once https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.forbes.com/sites/lizryan/2016/08/17/why-everyone-should-get-fired-at-least-once/amp/

https://gizmodo.com/ibm-pushed-out-older-workers-in-favor-of-thrifty-authe-1823986722

Why you no listen to Confucius?

This has to be the best post comment ever!

Hold on to your hats. Confucius say the big one that everyone has been waiting for is right around the corner. It's gonna be BIG, it's gonna be BAD, it's gonna be UGLY, and it's gonna be SOON.

Saw an email from someone about being laid off and Friday being their last day. Anyone know how many got affected?

markhurd.com https://markhurd.com/latest-news/

How high is attrition at Oracle really? I see people writing all the time that they see huge employee turnover in their departments, yet I'm yet to see one person leave on their own in the past five years (at least.) Is there really high attrition in... — read more 

http://www.businessinsider.com/cowen-cuts-oracle-price-target-after-606-rule-change-2018-6

For years the Catholic Church allowed many priests to get away with child molesting. Even though many priests were caught, the church just moved them around to other places where the molestation continued until the priest was caught again. They kept... — read more 

reposting from another thread, this seems to be confirmed by some local people: SSO field sales and presales in France have already been wiped out beginning of june, but given the laws it will be effective only in 90 days. This is official and not a... — read more 

Copied from another post. What is going on? How is it related to layoffs? Is this board now a grievance zone? If a few are so miserable no one is forcing you to stay. Go ahead and start looking for new jobs. I can’t believe what I am witnessing in... — read more 

Take a look at the chart titled "indexed Share Price Performance of Amazon, Microsoft and Oracle" What a joke.... https://marketrealist.com/2018/06/why-oracle-stock-fell-after-the-companys-fiscal-q4-2018-release

So they keep saying q4 was great, but for who? I know what our teams numbers were and the bonus does not reflect that. So whose pocket did that go into? Most certainly wasn’t mine.

For those of you still worried about your job, don't be. Yes there will be continued layoffs all the time every quarter, but they all will be just under the warn notification threshold, and nothing "huge" or "massive" is coming. It will be a constant... — read more 

Yesterday, CW sold 48k shares which leaves him with only 970.

(2) The balances at May 31, 2018 and 2017 included $257 million and $242 million, respectively, recorded in other current liabilities and $25 million and $22 million, respectively, recorded in other non-current liabilities. What this means is Oracle... — read more 

It’s posted. It’s out. It was a bad quarter. Q4 is historically our best quarter. Why did we wait around for Q4 bonus?? Now to get serious about getting out. All my peers who have left for significant increases. Shaking my head at why I didn’t start... — read more 

Hold on to your hats. Confucius say the big one that everyone has been waiting for is right around the corner. It's gonna be BIG, it's gonna be BAD, it's gonna be UGLY, and it's gonna be SOON. I have the inside scoop so stay tuned for more... — read more 

Calling all existing and aspiring writers - there is a book to be written about the decline of oracle. A really good and interesting book, with substance and characters to boot. Go for it!

So if you were the founder and largest shareholder of a company that was going down the drain, would you just sit there and do nothing, or would you perchance fire the CEOs, head of product dev, and the cto? So what’s wrong with LE? He no longer... — read more 

"Oracle plans layoffs to be under the radar, never triggering WARN. A mass layoff that would be covered by the press, in order to send a signal to Wall Street, would confirm their precarious position, negating any benefit to the stock. Could even... — read more 

Could be an interesting article combined with investigation of the cloud washing “deals” the last three years. There’s a story here.

Getting worse...!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ============ https://marketrealist.com/2018/06/are-customers-cutting-spending-with-oracle ============= ".....J.P. Morgan analysts, led by Mark Murphy, surveyed 154 chief technology officers and found that the majority... — read more 

Is Oracle hiding something? Several analyst firms wondered aloud whether Oracle might be trying to hide some sort of weakness in the cloud-computing story by making the results less transparent. The company is facing strong cloud-computing... — read more 

No major layoff this last week - some 25 people asked to total in a catch up correction between this and last week. Total since 6/1-2016 19,225. Good luck all!

MH - "This is a nothing-burger". Oracle defends cloud business disclosures https://www.ft.com/content/a4fc61c6-740f-11e8-aa31-31da4279a601

https://www.ft.com/content/1b1b137e-760f-11e8-b326-75a27d27ea5f Article says it. Please use the sharing tools found via the email icon at the top of articles. Copying articles to share with others is a breach of FT.com T&Cs and Copyright Policy... — read more 

This one will be BIG really BIG!!! I am telling you it will effect all locations and business units. Trust me.

https://investorplace.com/2018/06/oracle-stock-further-fall/ "Oracle stock doesn't look like a buy until $40" "I’ve never been a big fan of Oracle. The bull thesis has always hinged on out-sized cloud growth propelling the company into a new era of... — read more 

Former employees are starting to talk. There seems to be a lack of understanding at upper management layers on why Java platform development within the product org actually is important and linked to future revenue... — read more 

Cloud Consultants, Sr. Sales Consultants, DB and ES Sales Consultants. Architects. HCM. Supply Chain. Glassdoor salary estimates from 50k to 160k. Bring your BSCS, mad programming, scrum, project mgmt, etc skills. TBH those salary ests sound low... — read more 

TK has been selling stock. https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/ORCL/insider-transactions?p=ORCL

43.11 USD +0.29 (0.68%) Smart investors who bought this small dip are making money already.

Oracle: we’re going to obfuscate our Cloud SaaS revenue from now on, you think Wall St will care ? Intel: Oh dude, I can do better. Hold my beer.

institutional share holders flee ORCL.. ================== https://www.investopedia.com/news/oracles-cloud-business-now-murky-picture/?partner=YahooSA&yptr=yahoo

Has anyone been laid off yet? That's what this site is all about. Speculating about Oracle's past, present, and future is all well and good, but so far no layoffs posted. Usually when the stock tanks after a bad announcement, the market demands some... — read more 

Oracle doesnt have customers, it has hostages. While this is not a new phenomenon, what is new is that there are big tech companies who have large successful practices that essentially perform jailbreak operations for these customers. Oracle used to... — read more 

Oracle stock takes a beating as lack of cloud numbers questioned https://www.yahoo.com/finance/m/9e4821eb-d2e5-3994-a5e9-684f8d824a4c/oracle-stock-takes-a-beating.html