The very fact that they are holding a Townhall today is completely tone deaf, but if you are able to listen to it, what a terrible attempt at a cheerleading session this is, it actually makes me sick to my stomach.
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@d2 sounds like a great place to be!
So, did the minions cheers the Felonious Gru, Despicable Me/LE ?
@dy Makes one wonder if the 'inverts' theory is true. They also tend to be narcissistic and preoccupied.
@b6 I also noticed those weird hand gestures.
The whole town hall was nauseating. And what were all those stupid emoji reactions?! As if any employees would be doing that?
It isn't beyond leadership. They have a plan. Will it work? I have no idea.
It is simply beyond me. How can this leadership team look themselves in the mirror. This company is a political cesspool. That I doubt it (the internal politics and favoritism or the company. Itself) will ever go away. My call...its goes bankrupt and has to be restructured.
I was so proud to have worked for Oracle. Now, I don't ever mention it.
I think I heard one of the CEO's said - "This is the best time for me in Oracle that I had in last 10 years"
@an damn it missed that opportunity
@ap Oh god..yeah the "marketing team" under FrNl...what a smarmy guy.
@ae Not to mention Clay was constantly fidgeting with is watch - a tell that he is lying maybe? Also he is a HORRIBLE public speaker! Also what was up with the hand jesters the CFO was making -crazy!
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Assimilate into The Borg.
Resistance is Futile.
As the late great George Orwell wrote, in his book, "1984":
“War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.”
“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
“If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.”
“Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.”
“We do not merely destroy our enemies; we change them.”
“Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.”
“I enjoy talking to you. Your mind appeals to me. It resembles my own mind except that you happen to be insane.”
“The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better.”
“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.”
“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”
“If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—for ever.”
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It's creating the 1984 state as the townhall is hinting. You will have to cheer them as they rule over you.
And define what's a woman.
@as With super AI? You kidding me right. Super AI is a digital God and if humans are controlling it then yes "Make me a business better than salesforce" is more than enough prompt to get the job done. Its naive to think we will need to do anything more than simple one line commands when Super AI is around. By 2030 is when experts are saying Super AI will be here. Thats in 3 years.
@a5,
Highly doubtful!
THEY JUST DON'T CARE ABOUT ANY OF US!
@ar How many tokens will that require?
Plus, how do you tell the AI to do something? "AI, write an MRP application better than Salesforce"? Or will you have to meticulously write a huge spec, then feed it to the AI and hope for the best?
@aq This is exactly what could happen. I mean super AI will be democratized though. So technically anyone could use it to build any kinda of business. It won't be exclusive to the rich. My nephew could tell super AI to build any one of the Oracle businesses.
@ag Right, and the robots will be doing all the work eventually. So basically if you are a human the state will just give you food and shelter, because there's nothing left to do.
But hey you got a terrific RedBull F1 marketing team to keep running!
@ak Plus if you filled out the survey with your grievances you're a mark for the next layoff
Hillary really showed how bad the stock price is doing compared to other hyperscalers! Why show that demoralizing fact?
Wow what a town hall, not sure how many times employee (the word) was referred, that clearly shows direction, and you can not ask questions - no Q&A allowed.
"Everything you do, think about how you can help THE CUSTOMER get more". (paraphrase)
I'm mostly thinking how to raise money to feed my family, but aight.
The Beatles - Here Comes The Sun sendoff for the Townhall meeting
"Its alright!" to everyone laidoff!
@af Yep, and this is going to lead the country to socialism... because if you bust your butt and do a good job the ja----s above walks away with all the credit. So why bother.
@ac I think the C-suite execs in all major corporations eventually just want a chatbot that they can type the words: "Do Business, Make Money"
I'm not convinced they can do anything more than that, nor validate the output of any AI themselves for correctness. They just want to vibe-code their way through business life and pay only themselves.
I guess that's the end of this line of thinking. Just a bunch of CEOs all prompting AI to have robots perform services and ship products to other CEOs.
Clay is a creeper! Did you see that awkward "real fake doors" Rick and Morty joke and then he asked her to stand close to her! Check that dudes phone
@a3 People using AI extensively also got the boot.
They literally started the townhall off with co-CEO Mike saying "isn't it great how many hours we have saved at Oracle and for our customers!" Which is basically a euphemism for isn't it great how many human employees we don't need anymore
I cannot imagine that they are in good spirits. The whole Oracle work force is demoralized and a tone deaf townhall like this makes things worse.
As per the talk everything is going great when its not. Its just bullsh-t and clowns talking nonsense.
The timing might be tied to the end of quarter. MH used to do these like clock work, both at HP and later at Oracle. Every town hall was always butterflies and unicorn fl-tulence.
But yeah, if you aren't neck deep in using AI to do your job, then you are in trouble. Also, what I have been seeing in job reqs that Indeed keeps emailing me is a long laundry list of skills which includes AI at the very end.
I think she is a robot running on chatgpt
No comments about layoff
@a1 in the sack
I made it 9 whole minutes before I couldn't take it anymore. I hated these even when things were 'normal'.
Listen carefully. They are tell you where you need to be in the company to keep your relevancy. Make your moves wisely. If you aren't already developing everything with AI you are going to be swept out of the company. They are monitoring AI usage. Low usage people are getting axed because they are not aligned where everything is going
Did you notice no chat no Q/A allowed?