I’m very happy to announce I’m no longer an Oracle employee. After five years of hard work and moving through a handful of teams with terrible management at each one, I landed a team where I was moved up to leadership and after five years of hard work was met with a 12% raise. It was the highest anyone on my team had gotten (embarrassing, because lots of my colleagues deserved higher raises) and they asked me to please keep it “professional” because “people might get upset” if they found out about the raise. Guess management hopes that folks don’t realize that talking about their wage is a right they have as employees, huh?
After two years of doing my managers job, being handed work last minute, taking leadership of an entire team for no promotion or raise, and being slammed with calls,, messages, and issues needing to be worked through under the guise of “this is preparing you for management!” I found a job I sincerely enjoy. It’s not in the same sector, it’s a total career change, but somehow they not only offered me over half of what I made leaving Oracle (less than what the folks I trained were paid lol) and I’m getting fully covered insurance, annual inflation raises, and a general increment raise in efforts to close the wage gap between highest and lowest earners.
It took me a year and a half to find this job, but I’m so happy I put myself first and decided to start the journey towards leaving Oracle.
Polish up those resumes, prepare for the six months to a year or more ahead to find something new, and try your best to fight through the process. I know applying to a new job feels like another job in and of itself and it isn’t easy, and it is super discouraging, but it’s worth the attempt. Wishing y’all the best! And cheers to hopefully new jobs for those of us who want them!