I was part of an Oracle acquisition of a small company. I was only there a year or so. So we got purchased by oracle. The id--ts in charge lied and a forged all the documents they suggested our partners signed. I only knew the people at my company a year and I was relatively in a low totem role. So we become oracle and I’m still I the unit. I guess we had about 2000-4000 people. As we got deeper into being “oracle”, the people in the company got worse. Especially the managers, directors and “presidents”.
Managers would just be toxic and arrogant. Stoking a culture of fear. They would pit each other against one another instead of a collaborative team. Directors. They would steal work, lie, sabotage careers by picking their favs to do projects based on race or s-x. They would usually be totally incompetent of any tech skills. In my particular unit, very few of the mgmt ever did the job of the people they managed. The presidents, well, useless. All just a figurehead. They were integral in approving raises and promotions. In my one situation, I had gotten a promotion and then was told there was no raise. This was after working for this horrible woman (total incompetent beat up Barbie), for 15 years. The guy whose team I was joining was an absolute wimp and coward. HR said “just be happy with the promotion”. I laughed at this person and said I can’t pay bills with that.
My old manager, the one who hired me for the first company, just total dummy and brown noser. He legit was clueless about anything in tech. Horrible mentor and just one of the biggest mistakes I ever made in my life trusting him. He’s still there doing nothing but being a secretary.
I say all this because I recently thought. Maybe this company that oracle bought just was filled with cr-ppy people and it has nothing to do with oracle. Granted they never got better.
Since that time I’ve come into contact with other folks at public companies that acted like this and they’ve been asked to resign or sued in court. I would never do that cause I’ve done pretty well since leaving O and these people are just gonna have no friends and worthless “keep up with the jones” lives. I actually never came in contact with cr-ppy oracle mothership people. So I’ve started to blame them much less than the animals that worked at the company I used to be with. Absolutely huge group of clowns.