It is interesting how confident managers are and how much they try to undervalue employees efforts by making them believe they are never good enough. I guess they are trying to tell us that we should be happy that we have a job here at all. And then all these unrealistic expectations start, overwhelming with work, shorter than ever deadlines, etc. I don't know why people succumb to such pressures? Act you wage!
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Another side effect of a manager that puts you down is employees who then work extra extra hard to show what they can do or what they know. But, even that eventually comes to an end.
Everyone just needs to get out. Oracle is a sinking ship.
My experience is that the better you are at your job, the more your manager will work to put you down.
It's the 80/20 rule. 20% often do 80% of the work. In some cases at Oracle, it is the 90/10 rules. If you are being overworked, that is a clue you are valuable, no matter what anyone says. Use that as motivation to grow, i.e. get out.
The culture is sad. It's trickle down. Investing in employees is unheard of in some places.
My experience is that the better you are at your job, the more your manager will work to put you down. It is a tactic to keep you in your place where he can use you. Making you believe your skills are poor deters you from looking elsewhere. Sad by very true.
My manager has literally told me to be grateful that we still have jobs. Oracle expects gratitude to be one-way.
I think a lot are the people that stick around and maybe “not cry about it.” They simply do the work they are requested to do and not much more. It is true a lot have been pigeon-holed. Either in legacy stuff or simply the fact they are in a cloud environment with a small footprint.
That type of mindset from top to bottom doesn’t make a company great though. The rewards stopped long ago and now Oracle is reaping what they showed.
Employee abuse is unacceptable.
Sadly many Oracle mgrs & VPs are abusive and should never have been placed in their jobs. They need to be fired.
...better yet, why not go find a job somewhere else where you are valued? Or are you one of the many Oracle employees who lack the skills to do that and therefore stick around and cry about it.