First, Epic, now Oracle.
I’m never gonna get another job in software, am I?
Edit: I physically let out a cry of pain after reading possibly 10,000 engineers of varying seniority had been fired (incident was reported on LinkedIn and judged based on the dip in Oracle’s internal Slack membership count).
Yeah, I should just start trying to move into a new field, huh.
I feel you here. I graduated into covid and then as soon as things started opening again all these non stop layoffs
Just speaking for myself, as a systems administrator, I am actively pursuing my backup plans to get out of IT ASAP. What’s coming is topsy-turvy and will be dog eat dog.
Time to organize
We need socialism. Seriously!
If that’s NOT another reason to study socialist theory, then I DON’T know what is. Seriously! https://redsails.org/
Larry Ellison looks like the cartoon superlative of the devil
Does he try to look like the devil, or does that apperance just like, manifest itself after doing enough evil?
It’s a combination of buccal fat removal (apparently everyone is doing this?), hard drugs probably and shit genetics.
Remember this is the BEST he can look. The hair color, the skin ointments and surgery, all of it. This is him at his best.
This guy was never a looker.
Also, the gloves are off for the filthy rich, we should attack them on every level, including calling them ugly. Never defend a monster.
How can you afford to own your own island but not afford a suit that fits?
I was thinking the dark side version of president skroob
Is that Vince McMahon?
He looks so old that even the botched plastic surgeries are looking old now. Damn he looks frail…
WTF I can’t believe thats a real photo. It looks like someone cut two heads in half and then swapped halves before squishing them back together.
I was JUST going to say!! Disney Villain looking ass lmao
If you’re evil nowadays, you can just buy a Mar-a-lago face to short circuit the whole process.
Yes.
yes
Needs more Bobby Kotick, with a dash of that evil sham pastor who actually looks like the devil.
Feels like a month ago they were spending billions on some AI scheme.
One Rich Asshole Called Larry Ellison
Walmart Tony stark is an asshole
This is somehow both an insult to Tony Stark and Walmart. At least Walmart is just old fashioned business bastard evil and not, to my knowledge, apocalyptic techno-feudalist with immorality aspirations that belong in anime or comic books and a fucked up mannequin face
I was going for cheap rip off version of Tony stark based on looks
Ah my bad, I would’ve thought that was Great Value Tony Stark
Edit: Clover Valley Tony Stark would be the Dollar Store variety
Phony Stark?
Look at that ghoul
Anyone taking odds on this being a prepare for the bubble popping vs. the corporate line that it’s to invest further into AI?
It’s just a continuation of the trend that’s been going on for 2+ years now.
Wouldn’t be surprised if, somewhere among these tens of thousands laid off this year so far, there’s another Luigi willing to go full old school Teamster.
Looks like Luigi, assuming he did it, was a once in a lifetime. He was driven enough and smart enough to pull it off, and he attacked low-hanging fruit. Billionaires are surrounded by armed guards 24/7.
Maybe, just maybe, we’ll get a disgruntled sniper back from Iran, assuming we get boots on the ground, and they’ll be able to pull it off.
I can’t believe Oracle has 10,000 employees to begin with. What the hell are they doing that even needs that many people to begin with?
Writing iron-clad, deal-with-the-devil level contracts that cannot be broken by mere customers. And nipping open-source projects in the bud via mergers and acquisitions.
These bastards grifted $300 million dollars from my state to build a single website for the Healthcare exchange after the ACA was passed. It never once worked and was scrapped for the federal government’s own version immediately after its “release.” To be fair, I also blame our state leaders for this as even your average moron could see this coming from a mile away. Even if it did work, who the fuck would spend 1/3 of a billion dollars to build a webpage.
They have way more than 100,000 employees
Firing 30,000 of them. You can’t fire people if you don’t hire them in the first place. And as you all know stock price jumps after big layoffs.
- Layoff 30K people
- Stonk goes from $146.88 close yesterday to $145.25 close today after the layoffs.
- ??AI??
- Profit!
Yeah, just like the other comment: likely mostly lawyers, lobbyists and trolls of all colors.
But hey! We are in on the AI bubble !! /s
When they renamed 23c to 23ai I cringed so hard. You don’t install the DB and get an AI, you get an empty DB that has vectors.
I mean, that wasn’t the first rename for silly reasons. There is a long tradition of this for Oracle DB naming. That “c” in 23c meant “cloud”. Nothing about the DB 23c required it to installed or run in the cloud. That was in 2012 with DB 12c. Before that in 2003 it was “g” in DB 10g for “grid” (remember the grid computing hype?). Before that in 1998 it was “i” in DB 8i for “internet”.
Kinda late to the party aren’t they?
Oracle are not fast movers. But also this is not their first recent layoff.
