I'm stuck working with people whose IQ is a few points above than a box of rocks. Not the sharpest tool in the tool shed, and I wind up doing their jobs for them. Not only do the smart, hard working people that got laid off got the shaft, but those also that remained with those that should have been let go.
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@bt I'm sure they are hoping for attrition, but with the dismal job market I suspect that a lot of people will just try to hang on.
@aq indeed, accountants and lawyers. Never before had I worked for a company so tied up with contracts when selling products! My entire team was providing services to customers @ no charge. Easy bean counter decision, no revenue gained, no need for the entire group, goodbye! I hope the bottom falls out of the AI data center market and Larry then has a lot of expensive idle hardware on his hands. At 80+ years old its time he retired to his island instead of pretending to make good business decisions
Oracle wants people to quit on their own, so they laid off the best people. It costs Oracle a lot less to let people be demoralized and quit. Oracle is about to go full AI, so they will just need a handful of k-ll switch engineers soon!
@OP Don't continue to enable their actions and behaviours.
Do your own work and come up with an exit plan if you've had enough.
Let things break and maybe someone higher up will be accountable for the situation caused by the layoffs.
Employee costs have been cut to switch that budget into capital expenditure and building data centers. Employee performance wasn't a criteria for the layoffs.
I tell you my experience - when I join O about 10 years ago a had a really great teammates, but through the years many of them changed the job and left O. They were replaced by people who were so devoted to work more and more ignoring work hours - it looked like they totally didn’t care about their private life and not setting the healthy balance beetwen work and private time. The bad thing was that because of these people, all team was expected by manager to be involved to work whenever - 6 pm, 10 pm being notified by Slack (they never turned off notifications on their phones). This crazy machine fastened, it was like - when one day you do 300% of work, the next day it is your 100%. I was really frustrated and angry for them that they don’t have the respect for themselves and behave like thoughtless low paid slaves driven by fear - „It has to be done TODAY” or „When is ETA? Yesterday.” It was really toxic experience, the only thing I regret I spent there a bit too long. If you read this remember - be open to learn new things in your career area, be always curious world, talk to people, observe, never stop learning and always keep an eye on exit doors.
what did you expect from accountants running this company?
I know what you mean. I've been working with the same knuckleheads for a decade. How these people did not get riffed is beyond me.