Fareed Zakaria covered the great resignation and strikes in America. Employers have to improve conditions, or people will walk. Attrition is rampart at Oracle. Will it get worse

Please stop your finance directors from bullying us lower level folks. Most of us are stressed and depressed bc of how your directors are treating us. They’re faking staying “busy” to keep their jobs while enjoy bullying us. Been here for 5 months... — read more 

https://www.calcalistech.com/ctech/articles/0,7340,L-3920727,00.html

What is it about Oracle that seems to breed such a lemming mentality across the rank-and-file employees? I've always found it nauseating how quickly employees jump on the bandwagon around some new corporate buzzword or technology/term, and how... — read more 

I’ve been interviewing with a number of big and small companies the last few weeks. I’m on my 4th interview with an Oracle competitor. One thing I noticed, you can be happy and laugh about work. I’ve laughed more with people from these companies than... — read more 

How bad will it get?

With share price going up and up, must be golden handcuffs for many ... and management must be patting themselves on the back

This is just a candid personal opinion. Of course each of us have different experiences and I respect those. This is mine. Before Oracle : Way back in 1998, as a student, I used to look at computer training institutes in Chennai ( IIndia) and most... — read more 

I had a stupid manager with an ego that was beyond, beyond. Impossible to even have a conversation with this guy. Every single thing I said was constantly being analyzed by his rat brain for any sign of anything that might be negative about him. ... — read more 

As I didn’t do anything Oracle related today and went through few interviews, all I could do is laugh at the pathetic sad mess that runs my GBU. Yesterday some rat girl posts about sending out virtual birthday cards and global celebrations. She is... — read more 

Anyone heard anything about the Vaccine mandates with regards to Oracle employees ?, seems South West Airlines Pilots are resisting it. Be interesting to see how Oracle handles this. Surprised we haven’t had anything from HR. It was asked in a town... — read more 

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-58850064 ...last week could be significant for the future of whistleblowing in Silicon Valley for another reason. On Thursday night Gavin Newsom, California's governor, signed into law the Silenced No More Act. — read more 

There are lots of opportunities out there beyond the dumpster fires at Oracle. We all need to be looking to the future and what we would like for ourselves. For myself, I have created my own website and am looking at pushing that out there through... — read more 

I swear on my mother, who is deceased. I got promoted about 6 years ago. From one level consulting to another. My incompetent rat manager submitted my promotion but it was based on my base and not my total comp with OT. It actually ended up I was... — read more 

I'm one that had enough. There was no focus on the future, just trying to survive. Left it all behind. The question is not "why do you want to leave Oracle?" but "Why would you want to stay at Oracle?" Answer that truthfully. If you are reading... — read more 

In a very short amount of time, it so easy to see why Oracle is hated by the majority of employees and losing hand over fist. I got a new role a while back. No more money. No raise. My rat manager didn’t even fight for any money. Obviously I did... — read more 

Looks like directors and sr directors are searching for job. Not sure if they got fired.

Retooling complete. Larry, Safra and Cloud Wars all concur, Oracle is back in the lead!!

Link here: https://www.npr.org/2021/06/24/1007914455/as-the-pandemic-recedes-millions-of-workers-are-saying-i-quit Have some of you just decided you have had enough cr-p?

Here's a post with 80 upvotes on quora: I can only speak for Oracle engineering. I was a developer in the fusion middleware area working first on the on-premise tools and then on the Oracle cloud. My experience at Oracle was absolutely... — read more 

Rancid, stagnant, disgusting. The analogy holds up pretty well when you think about it.

I had an interview VMware today. Doing the same role I do at Oracle. She asked why I wanted to leave. I just said I want a chance at a new culture, new connections, a new opportunity. When I said those words, I was both sad and happy. The regret I... — read more 

Any ideas on how to exact revenge after being laid off from ORCL? (only peaceful methods, of course)

A buddy of mine works in the CEGBU. They told me that for their all hands call they played bingo and had a watch party for Mark Webster who people thought was live and it was pre recorded. He said he has some proper lap dogs who only tasked with... — read more 

People that have left: Talk about the reasons the grass is greener. This sounds like a case where it most definitely is... Also, what group did you leave? Any OCIers?

I guess how bad things are is finally dragging this company down to where they belong. The days of being a top rated employer are over. https://www.forbes.com/best-large-employers/#69d6ee67fb3e

Slightly off topic and apologies to folks in advance but, when someone hands in their 2 weeks notice, does Oracle usually make the employee work their notice ?

We have products that even our support staff do not know how to use! I would expect that is true in engineering also. People who knew products have left and suddenly there is code to support that no one knows anything about. In fact, even when I... — read more 

Anyone have the total number of employees in aria? I left the company a while ago. Just wondering with the attrition rate going on. Turnover of key, experienced staff is reaching record numbers. I have not seen anything like it in my 12 years... — read more 

I left a while ago. I know last year everyone was at home but I was wondering if that's still going on this year, given the delta variant.

I recently took a new role. The last 3 days I’ve spent about 30 mins on a BS run by someone who seems to want to talk cause they’re lonely. It took me decade plus to realize something. It you have no work to do and no one is over your shoulder, do... — read more 

Oracle doesn’t even do COL adjustments or pay band reviews. Know what that means? Time for the big employee swap. The parade of experience and talent walking out the door in favor of inexperienced college grads and foreign workers. OCI employees:... — read more 

I've been here for two years and I've been constantly stressed out in that time. There's too much work and not enough time to do it, my boss tends to give me tasks that have nothing to do with my job, layoffs are always a possibility and being... — read more 

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/09/13/oracle-orcl-earnings-q1-2022.html “Cloud is fundamentally a more profitable business compared to on-premise, and as we look ahead to next year, we expect company operating margins will be the same or better than... — read more 

How bad does it suk?

and put it out of its misery

Yep. And the ship just keeps sinking. This is what happens when you ignore your customers. Just ask Larry or... — read more 

Have been considering leaving the expensive Bay Area (old HQ) for cheaper places (Colorado or Washington). If you've done this, did you get a pay cut or do they just not give raises going forward?

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-larry-ellison-netanyahu-trial-witness-offers-ex-pm-seat-on-oracle-board-1.10209042 US President Harry Truman once said: "No, you can not get rich from politics - unless you crook."