Thread regarding Oracle Corp. layoffs

Oracle is broken - ECA beach vacay

I blew a fuse traveling and started booking follow up meetings at the customer sites near resort areas. I have been literally flying to both coasts for weeks and spending more time in the airports than at meetings when it hit me... Why am I doing this when the whole thing is broken?

Pat month I've been enjoying the California and Florida beaches. Spent two days last week on Cornado island in Sandiego, drove down from a customer meeting and spent the day at the beach and then drove back up to my hotel at night. Two weeks ago I was in Destin. Half my week is filled with bogus meetings that I load up. Sales reps have been replaced, manager is totally disconnected.

I just load up SCTA with 60% bogus meetings that conflict with crap locations.

I started booking meetings on my own to control my schedule a head of time. Then I got smart and starting booking meetings with developers and architects I knew were strapped for time and likely to cancel. I got a pat on the back from my manager for "taking control of things" and "effectively pushing back" on the insane work load.

I never go in the office anymore. I know from conversations confirmed on this site that the whole field sales consulting org is gone by next summer. I am now on permanent vacation.. work about 10 to 20 hours a week and make a lot of "email noise" to look like I am super busy.

We are toast and I know it, investing in formal training and certifications outside oracle.

by Anonymous
| 2371 views | | 6 replies (last November 26, 2017) | Reply
Post ID: @OP+QbU7uXt
Comment! It's anonymous!

6 replies (most recent on top)

Just coast till you get edged out of the company , there is no point in trying to fix a broken company

by Anonymous
| | Reply
Post ID: @gntj+QbU7uXt

SMB SaaS sales are a joke as well. Word is JL is out. Enterprise background trying to make SMB work and it is failing. All the smart ones are looking for jobs elsewhere or trying to move into Mid or Up market.

by Anonymous
| | Reply
Post ID: @1hws+QbU7uXt

Sales reps are a revolving door by design.

This way the client gets a fresh face every year or so and Oracle avoids paying commissions to anyone who is good. They try to churn sales reps out of the company. Aquisition customers are cheaper.

by Anonymous
| | Reply
Post ID: @1uoo+QbU7uXt

I have over 20 years with the company. I'm hanging on till I get the package. I have enough saved to last while I look for something new. My biggest hangup is being seen as the "old legacy guy." SQL is dead. Interviewed with AWS and Google. Google was all about opensource, and I did not make the cut. Oracle cloud stuff on my resume was laughed at by AWS.

by Anonymous
| | Reply
Post ID: @siw+QbU7uXt

I spend all my free time actively interviewing. Everyone whispering in the hallway. We all know our number is up. I don't know of a single person under HD's org that is not aware of the impending doom. Certifications and outside study is great, but now is the time to look. I have a family to take care of. My advice, don't wait or get complacent.

Instead of time at the beach you should book time for an interview.

by Anonymous
| | Reply
Post ID: @txn+QbU7uXt

Same, I'm in one of the platform teams. Key to success is loading up the outlook calendar two weeks in advance, and put tons of info in SCTA. I never book any over time, but show 50 to 60 hours a week in SCTA. I make a big deal out of every real meeting and update my manager and the sales team. They love me. I see my manger in person about once every two months. Real work is maybe one or two days a week. Best job ever. Just coasting till I get the severance package. Also working on training and certifications on HDFS and NoSQL. Relational is dead. Key is to duck the travel by having conflicts on the calendar. Sales reps are a revolving door.

by Anonymous
| | Reply
Post ID: @oeh+QbU7uXt

Post a reply

: