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I love the smell of [layoff emails] in the morning. Makes me wonder why they're shedding so much and if Zitron was a little right after all.

• bix6 17d ago
  Yeah what’s the end game here? Can they keep running with such deep cuts to staff and morale…
  • dyauspitr 17d ago
    Morale has been low at oracle for years. Now it’s just a “we pay you and push you as hard as we can for it until you quit” shop.
    • shawn_w 17d ago
      That's... most jobs.
      • doubled112 17d ago
        Most work for least pay is just business, I thought? Beatings shall continue until morale improves.
  • ramesh31 17d ago
    >" Can they keep running with such deep cuts to staff and morale…" ...First time? Oracle is literally the company Dilbert was making fun of
    • aaronbrethorst 17d ago
      He worked at Pacific Bell between 1986 and June 30, 1995, and the personalities he encountered there inspired many of his Dilbert characters. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Adams https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Adams
      • ghaff 17d ago
        And probably no small part of the downturn of Dilbert (besides Adams going a bit nuts) is that Adams is no longer in a workplace he can satirize so it remains stuck largely in 90s cubeland.
        • rootusrootus 17d ago
          > Adams is no longer Indeed.
        • georgemcbay 17d ago
          > Adams is no longer in a workplace he can satirize He's also not in a place where he can draw cartoons, what with being dead and all.
          • ghaff 17d ago
            Yes, I was speaking of latterly and I could have been clearer with tenses.
  • usrnm 17d ago
    > The latest cuts come after Oracle's workforce fell by roughly 21,000 employees, or 13%, during fiscal 2026 13% doesn't seem too different from other tech companies
    • oblio 17d ago
      The difference is that they didn't overhire during Covid.
    • nerevarthelame 17d ago
      The 13% quoted there was from previous layoffs that mostly took place in Q2 of 2026. This is another 20,000 - 30,000 (the exact number isn't public yet) on top of that.
  • Ekaros 17d ago
    Well they do have their own interference capacity. So AIs to solve every single issue.
  • sailfast 17d ago
    Depends on how many employees are on visas that depend on them working for Oracle I guess...
  • mohaine 17d ago
    Well, we'll know to worry/celebrate when they start laying of lawyers. The software side can probably go many years without new features. Nobody picks Oracle in 2026 for the features.
  • Havoc 17d ago
    > Yeah what’s the end game here? Just Ellison with a giant red borrow more button. All the other employees are just overhead