Package is good and just knowing that this horrible feeling of uncertainty will be no more! Priceless.
Job market is not great but something will click sooner or later!
Good bye and thanks for all the fish!
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I got hit by the Sept layoffs. Was really fearful as I heard all the horror stories about how bad the job market is. I treated it just like a job....I clocked in every day, hit my application "quota" and networked as time allowed. 6 weeks later I have two (much better) offers in hand. It'll undoubtedly slow down for the holidays, but don't believe all the gloom and doom. Get your info out there....there's a lot of hope and opportunity outside of Oracle.
Thank you for your service!
It does feel good to be out, feels better that I knew this day would come and prepared for it for decades during my time at Oracle. Now we can live well and have chosen to retire but pick up occasional contract gigs to fund the Roth IRA each year.
It's been an honor to serve with you!
We did what we could for the company and we did for the people working here, not for the stupid VPs. Together we made the working environment better for people around us and we were bloody good at it. And for me you are huge formative part of my journey and I am grateful for it.
What the stupid VPs do not realize is the fact that we are the part of the company which makes the value by holding together and hence doing the profit.
It's been an honor and it was a great joy.
Thanks for all the fish!
Not knowing when you will get your next job isn't uncertainty? I would rather have uncertainty and a paycheck than uncertainty with no income but that is just my view.
Good Luck OP, if you feel better about the situation that is all that matters.
@ba Or those who would be choosing to retire soon anyway.
Keep the bench warm and your health care package whilst waiting for a payoff to leave.
Only people with low skills level stay there until they are finally kicked out in the next round. This is sad. Do not wait, your future is in your hands, not in theirs, remember about it. Mental health matters.
I'm getting fired today lol
A friend said that in a company heading downhill the 'meat' and the 'bones' will leave first, leaving just 'fat'.
@OP, what is a good package in your view?
All the smart ones will be escape. Rest will get PIPed. Not looking good.
@OP Best of Luck!!!