Another round of layoffs started today. Support engineers in Solaris/Network and Disk domains in Poland were laid off along with hub agents. More layoffs to follow next week. Spain is next, followed by other sites in Europe.

Well it's a first this year, but the layoff total for the calendar year to date stay the same at 3,050. Yes there was a 5 person layoff in the HSGBU this week, which is sad, but it doesn't move the needle. Unfortunately, this is merely a temporary... — read more 

Where is the March/April layofff? Anyone has any update?

What layoffs are you aware of this week? Number of people, unit, location? Share what you know!

I heard a rumor that folks at the top want to eliminate remote work, they want people working at HQ. Anyone else heard this?

If it is in fact correct that Director level and higher employees were put on flex vacation and has their carries vacation taken away, then their vacation accruals which had already been expenses would have bee reversed and would have - artificially... — read more 

When the new policy was announced – YES, I knew their real motivation was to get the liability off the books…. YES, I knew they just made layoffs cheaper with this move …. YES, I knew this was NOT some altruistic thing done for our benefit… But it’s... — read more 

I received an 8-month severance at a former employer. When my new company checked my employment history, I was reported by my old company as "employed" during those 8 months. Anyone know if Oracle records you in the same way?

If you join your next employer before the 60 day notification period ends, are you still eligible to claim severance ?

The calendar year to date layoff total now stands at 3,050 as of end of this week. With the layoffs in different parts of the GBU it is clear that industry specialization is no longer important to oracle, which is looking to increasingly offer... — read more 

Let us know what's going on - location, function, number of people, etc Good luck everybody !

Oracle has just taken away all salaried employees accrued vacation and replaced it with "flex" vacation. When you have "unlimited" vacation, you have no vacation.

According to Theregister.co.uk Desperation setting in at top floor of 500 Oracle Parkway, anything that looks disruptive that can be used to explain away poor cloud revenue and profit numbers

is anyone done with the enrollment?

Amazingly looks like no layoffs this past week so the total for the calendar year remains at 3,000. Little hope that this number will remain unchanged. Keep looking for new jobs!

Could it be that there were no layoffs this week whatsoever? Don't believe it so pipe up here if you were laid off

Here are some links to the episode on #H1B abuse as seen by #MSM - as you can see, the perception is morphing: Are U.S. jobs vulnerable to workers with H-1B visas? ... — read more 

Don't expect mass layoffs of IT workers even as the world's biggest companies move more of their workload to the cloud, Oracle CEO Mark Hurd told CNBC... Source:... — read more 

Updated Mar. 8, 2017 at 11:58 a.m. Oracle won't comment on report of 'huge' layoffs in Morrisville Tags: Employment, Layoffs MORRISVILLE, N.C. — Layoffs described as "huge" that hit "all departments" at Oracle's operations in Morrisville on Tuesday... — read more 

The total for calendar year 2017 has now reached 3,000. That includes the prior 2,900 year to date plus the layoffs this pas week of 40 or so in the CEGBU and unreported singles and doubles. Slow week whereas layoffs are concerned, related to the... — read more 

10 times faster and cheaper at running oracle DB than AWS - prove it !

So oracle makes it look like they had a great Q3, but that doesn't agree with my sense of reality, so any thoughts about what they did to goose up these numbers? I mean, surely this is not just organic growth, got to be lots of acquired revenue in... — read more 

So tired watching colleagues leaving on their own or being let go as the rest of us not know what is going on or what to expect tomorrow. At the same time MH & SC tell analysts and reporters all is great - and getting better. It is the complete... — read more 

Clinton Foundation going out of business? Why would such a wonderful important non profit be going out of business? Oracle supported the Clinton Foundations database, any truth to this? Guess she couldn’t sell access anymore, don’t know though.

Did you folks see MH on CNBC? Cloud will not result in IT layoffs - really? Oracle will do things that internal IT people did before such as set up and run infrastructure, upgrade applications, etc. , but oracle doing it will not cost them their... — read more 

Do you have any updates on layoffs in Saint Petersburg, Russia. The last I heard was that about 250 will be let go before 5/31. Any truth in this?

Check out SC's fawning letter to the Chairman of the FCC at theregister.co.uk, talk about brown nosing to get the DoJ of Oracle's back. #noshamenomorals

"show me an incumbent bigco failing to adapt to change, I'll show you top execs paid huge cash compensation for quarterly and annual goals" No F ing kidding how perfectly does that describe Oracle!

Confirmed: No June shutdown, not that fast. Current product can sell for years, next product is on the shelf, no hurry to come out new product, no too many buyers anyway. Arch hits the wall, high power/frequency/cost but no obvious performance... — read more 

The quarterly earnings call coming up, here is a chance to help the analyst community ask the right questions of the theee overload monsters. Please contribute. To get us started: What is the succession plan? Which businesses - HW, on-prem apps... — read more 

According to Inc and As You Sow foundation SC & MH overpaid by $121m on total comp of $196.5. Shameful greed! Actially overpaid by much more if you understand the extent to which they are running oracle onto the abyss

Thoughts?

When Oracle Labs was shutdown we (in the HW group) were told that it wouldn't happen to us. Then BAM! 30% laid off in HW group. To quote MH (I heard him say this in person and as best as I can recall): "I'm not sure why we need the HW group when we... — read more