Thread regarding Oracle Corp. layoffs

LOL...It happened today! I was in a call and someone said "My 14 year old son..." Its true!

Agree on old guy talking nonsense but his counterpart blonde girl (assuming his daughter?) has the most intriguing Dr Seuss inspired clothes. And zero tech knowledge as well.

“Especially the old guy with the high pitched voice.”

He reminds me of high pitch Eric on Howard Stern.

Oracle does have a TikTok channel. Search on TikTok. So clueless.

“Our Oracle TV ‘experts’ have zero tech knowledge and sound ridiculous interviewing or speaking about Oracle products.”

Of course they don’t have tech knowledge. How could they possibly have an in-depth knowledge of ALL of the Oracle products they cover? It’s not their job or their industry. They only have a high level understanding of the product details. In the same way, the vast majority of sales, product experts and techies don’t (despite what they may think) have a clue how to create and deliver professional content. Especially not on the restricted budgets that marketing are working with.

Employees with good tech knowledge have had opportunities to work on OTV productions and on camera, and with the exception of a few it’s been a mess because most have zero knowledge of how TV works. So it goes both ways.

Our Oracle TV ‘experts’ have zero tech knowledge and sound ridiculous interviewing or speaking about Oracle products. Especially the old guy with the high pitched voice.

Oracle doesn’t even have a Tik Tok account let alone a Tik Tok strategy. No one under 25 exerts any real influence in marketing here.

Yep. I die a little inside when I hear someone say "We are using our social media to reach a younger audience". Then when pressed for how they are achieving that, they say something like "My Son/Daughter/Under 25 something" said, so and so. I sit there bewildered. So your "source", who still lives at home, is in high school, who doesn't actually buy software (except maybe on steam for a game or two) is giving you recommendations as to the inside track on enterprise software purchases, and the direction Oracle to take? The same source who uses open software in their classrooms because Google or Apple or AWS put it there and made it easy to use? You then build an entire disconnected media strategy trying to chase what your "source" recommended ? Or better yet...an intern that can't get an internship anywhere else and never had a job in their life has an opinion too? Bingo. Our social media and marketing strategy's foundation is laid bare. Tell me oh great under 25 something media guru, how Oracle needs to pivot marketing to counter the gap from a lack of nVidia AI chip and OCI capacity. Tell me geniuses of Oracle marketing how a TikTok strategy can work in this case?

We have marketing?

We have a ‘star making machine’. A machine as powerful as a yo-yo.