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You got it all wrong man. Oracle only has 205 engineers, so this is devestating to their workforce. Everyone else at Oracle is either in legal or a proctologi

You got it all wrong man. Oracle only has 205 engineers, so this is devestating to their workforce. Everyone else at Oracle is either in legal or a proctologist.

romeoblade 4y ago
> Everyone else at Oracle is either in legal or a proctologist. Lmao. Man you don't know how much I needed to laugh that hard after the last few weeks I had. Thank you.
smarks 4y ago
I know, right? When Oracle bought Sun they forced all the engineers to choose between legal and proctology; I chose the latter. After ten years I’m starting to regret my decision. At least Sun wasn’t bought by IBM. (That was actually in play before the Oracle deal.) At IBM they force the engineers to go into Sales. That would have been far, far worse.
- aardvark179 4y ago
  I’ll buy you a beer at the next JVMLS for each proctology joke you can smuggle into a non draft JEP. :-)
  - testmasterflex 4y ago
    Dying here. Is this a meme I’ve missed?
    - buscoquadnary 4y ago
      Well not a meme per se, but I can also tell you've never had Oracle come and perform an audit of your site usage.
    - deleted 4y ago
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bfung 4y ago
I actually worked at a company, acquired by oracle in mid 2010s. I ended up leaving seeing how it took 5 proctologists, 37 lawyers, and 3 engineers to meet and make decisions when it only needed the 3 engs to begin with. The stats of the M&A were usually only 1/3 of the acquired company’s staff would stay on w/Oracle. While this layoff probably doesn’t map geographically with the Cerner M&A, not surprised with some minor team restructuring.
- next_xibalba 4y ago
  I feel this in my bones. Worked at a smallco acquired by market leading bigco. The average meeting size was 15 people and decisions that previously required 5 minutes took weeks. I didn’t even last 6 months.

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You got it all wrong man. Oracle only has 205 engineers, so this is devestating to their workforce. Everyone else at Oracle is either in legal or a proctologi

by buscoquadnary 4y ago

You got it all wrong man. Oracle only has 205 engineers, so this is devestating to their workforce. Everyone else at Oracle is either in legal or a proctologist.

romeoblade 4y ago
> Everyone else at Oracle is either in legal or a proctologist. Lmao. Man you don't know how much I needed to laugh that hard after the last few weeks I had. Thank you.
smarks 4y ago
I know, right? When Oracle bought Sun they forced all the engineers to choose between legal and proctology; I chose the latter. After ten years I’m starting to regret my decision. At least Sun wasn’t bought by IBM. (That was actually in play before the Oracle deal.) At IBM they force the engineers to go into Sales. That would have been far, far worse.
- aardvark179 4y ago
  I’ll buy you a beer at the next JVMLS for each proctology joke you can smuggle into a non draft JEP. :-)
  - testmasterflex 4y ago
    Dying here. Is this a meme I’ve missed?
    - buscoquadnary 4y ago
      Well not a meme per se, but I can also tell you've never had Oracle come and perform an audit of your site usage.
    - deleted 4y ago
      [deleted]
bfung 4y ago
I actually worked at a company, acquired by oracle in mid 2010s. I ended up leaving seeing how it took 5 proctologists, 37 lawyers, and 3 engineers to meet and make decisions when it only needed the 3 engs to begin with. The stats of the M&A were usually only 1/3 of the acquired company’s staff would stay on w/Oracle. While this layoff probably doesn’t map geographically with the Cerner M&A, not surprised with some minor team restructuring.
- next_xibalba 4y ago
  I feel this in my bones. Worked at a smallco acquired by market leading bigco. The average meeting size was 15 people and decisions that previously required 5 minutes took weeks. I didn’t even last 6 months.