Thread regarding Oracle Corp. layoffs

If I still have a job after how I filled out the survey, they must be relatively confidential. I was not offensive but I certainly called out specific EVPs and SVPs on their behavior and lack of leadership. If I recall, I said I trust my direct manager but also wrote that trust is waning every year. I actually have very little reason to trust anything he says because its all been lies and/or inaction for years but he largely leaves me alone. I'm not sure if its him or people above him.

And I was honest on the ones before that as well. Still here.

My opinion is this. Me and my team do excellent work and we have for years. What I've built at Oracle is great. If Oracle does not appreciate what i bring to the table, I really don't care. Let me go - its Oracle's loss, not mine. I'm not going anywhere voluntarily (well, maybe, for the right thing) and I will continue to be a thorn in the side to the nasty empire building managers who make things difficult. I've worked too hard for what I've built to just walk away.

I am telling you that employees do not fill out surveys because they are paranoid

The paranoid ones are the ones who have the experience to know how the game is played. Go ahead and fill out the surveys honestly, you'll find out.

Surveys are a joke. Just like the annual appraisals. Never done no-one no good in 20 years except the sycophants (you millennials can google that )

I am telling you that employees do not fill out surveys because they are paranoid. Some of them, anyway. I could point to some current emps but of course I won’t.

It seems people here confuse fear with practicality.

Are employees afraid to answer a survey? I don't think so. More like a realization that such surveys serve no (good) purpose, and whatever is anwered can never serve to fix anything. Which leaves two possible outcomes, either a negative one or no outcome at all. And in either case, what's the point?

If we hadn't been so insistently pushed to reply, there would have been no engagement. We were, a lot, so 4s and 5s all around and to the next thing.

Employees are afraid to tell the truth. Oracle has reached a tipping point where employees are so beaten up that they will not participate honestly in Oracle's revival. Everyone is just trying to preserve their jobs for the time being. Best way to do that is to lie and say everything is wonderful.

People are generally afraid to respond truthfully about their direct manager. The survey means nothing. Results seem to be given to the direct manager, and they can figure out who doesn't like them, if anyone responds negatively.

Our department (20+ people) also did the survey and when getting to the question "Do you trust your DM", we graded our DM unanimously the 2nd lowest or lowest grade.

I guess when all 20+ have done so, Oracle HR can't hold it against us ;-)

If you want them to lay you off, complain your manager to HR is one of the way.

I have read online that the only way to get HR to pay attention to you, is to get a lawyer and file a harassment claim. For that you will ammunition.... recordings, emails, whatever.

Good luck to all the other older people at Oracle who are still doing good work. It is hard to find a job outside when you are 55+.

I complained to HR about harassment. What I got was a 30 minute phone call with the evil HR lady, who spent the entire time reading some legal c-ap from somewhere about my options.

HR is not on the employee's side. They take the manager's side in everything. You may have the most corrupt, evil, scumbag for a manager, but they will do whatever he says. You are unimportant. You can be harassed and HR is fine with that.

I was asked to feel the exit interview when I had enough of my manager lies. guess who interviewed me? a guy from HR who spoke A LOT and constantly with my manager. if this is confidentiality, you can stick it somewhere...

"How can a survey be anonymous when they send you a customized link? It’s just common sense."

Years ago when I worked at HP it was interesting how employees responded to morale surveys based on geographic location. In our business unit American employees (who were nagged to death to respond) said everything was wonderful, even though it wasn't.

Our European colleagues, well, they had no reservations about saying how they really felt. Of course. we Americanos felt the same way (our management showed the aggregate results, by region), but we dared not express that. In the end it didn't help as we got clobbered in layoffs while the Euros bore much less of the brunt,

In the Euro replies you'd see words like "unacceptable", "dysfunctional", "we want raises". etc.

"RG respect much and well." Have they outsourced HR?

I was one of the stupid employees who responded honestly to the survey under the pressure of my boss. Guess what, I was let go after 3 months, even though they did not even know how they can handle the job I left.

But I don't regret it. It is a dying company. We'll see.

How can a survey be anonymous when they send you a customized link? It’s just common sense.

I did respond to this survey once and I actually did have a manager I really trusted. I know I was one of the lucky ones. And yes, we are both out.

Don't respond to company surveys. They are NOT anonymous. My first survey I responded, but the team's response rate was 25%. Most of the others knew not to respond.

Don't bother. Don't trust your managers or anyone that looks like they are s---ing up to the manager, especially if the s----up never seems to have to do any work. They are the manager's thugs and will lie, cheat, steal with the manager to get anyone that is competition for them, laid off.

You can't trust anyone.

Previous surveys were said to be "anonymous", but what that really meant was that management didn't have direct access to individual results. However, HR did and they categorized responses to show who would leave without being let go, who wouldn't leave although the company didn't want them, etc. It informed and shaped layoff decisions. From that point forward, employees have known that their responses are monitored and can be impactful. Dissent it that environment is, obviously, going to be very rare.

Of course the survey results is all sunshine and happiness. Only stupid employees would respond with their true feelings so they can be put on "the list."

My team handles surveys analytics which my team membership entirely made of human people on United States office on North American continent office not bot from distant country. Surveys says: much intimate happiness of employees deep within all body members. RG respect much and well. Surveys says: All immediate managers immediately provide immediate satisfaction 99.4%. ]`