Last week I was on the verge of impulsively leaving and giving notice without first having found a new job. I didn’t do it but I prioritized looking for a job again and I think I will accept some less tempting offer just to get out of here.
I’m only here because I’m happy with the benefits, but I don’t intend to sacrifice my health for them anymore. ORCL glamorizes overwork. I've been working so hard lately that I feel like I've been working non-stop for months.
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I worked night and day on a project for the better part of a year. At the end of the whole thing the credit for it was given to someone else who did absolutely nothing.
The management will work you to death and take the credit for themselves and their suckups. They will lie about your behind your back to make it look like you are not doing anything. They will lie up the management chain and talk-up their suckup while they demean you.
Don't bother. Go somewhere where work is valued and you are rewarded for doing it. Don't work for the corrupt management at Oracle. Work in a place where the best people are rewarded.
People overwork themselves because they think they are "doing the right thing". They do so intuitively but they are wrong. Constant overwork does NOTHING good but get people spoiled to the fact that they can abuse the sn-t out of you and get away with it. It ruins your health your mental well being and takes time away from your family. If you are afraid of being laid off so you work yourself stupid, forget it, they will eventually lay you off anyway.
This is a sore subject for me because my wife who was a branding expert (not for Oracle) worked herself half to death . I begged her for years to slow down, but she didn't because she "didn't want to disappoint people". My reply was **** them, in 20 years they will forget your name. her workload increased to the point to where she was putting in 18 hour days, despite my pleas to slow down and "let it break". Then one day, they laid her off. Just like that. By that time, she developed high blood pressure and a host of other maladies. A few years later her health deteriorated to the point to where she was literally dying. Did any one of those jerks who piled on the work ever visit her? Not a one. She told me that I was right and should have listened to me. I told her it was OK, she did what she thought was right. I am convinced that Her doing what she did cut 15 years off her life.
If you have to put in the occasional OT, or have a quarterly crunch, that's fine, Do what you have to do to get the job done, but if your workload is growing to the point to where you are taking work home or putting in 15 hour days every day, get out, GET OUT NOW. It is not worth it. Find something else to do, anything else. You are NOT doing the right thing and in 20 years you will be forgotten as well.
I know, I saw it, I lived it. Don't do it.
We don’t buy into Oracle cult thinking. You do. We spend all the time we can to improve our own employment situations. You waste your time here singing “Woe is me!”.
Find a company that deprioritizes overwork. They are out there.
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Benefits shouldn’t keep you here! You will find out once you look around .
Don’t sacrifice your health for ant company!!!