• qarbone@lemmy.world
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    8 days ago

    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.

    • funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works
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      8 days ago

      I trained as a clown at literal clown school. Everyone laughed at me and told me I should’ve been a software engineer. Well, no ones laughing now.

  • ObsidianZed@lemmy.world
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    8 days ago

    Yeah this was fun. I got the email on my last day of vacation I took for my honeymoon.

    I’ve heard of much worse those, people that had been there 30+years, a woman 6 months pregnant, and someone diagnosed with cancer, all without insurance now, not that Oracle offered great insurance to begin with. It was UHC.

  • cAUzapNEAGLb@lemmy.world
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    9 days ago

    Does he try to look like the devil, or does that apperance just like, manifest itself after doing enough evil?

    • cmbabul@lemmy.world
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      9 days ago

      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

  • Blackmist@feddit.uk
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    8 days ago

    Look on the bright side, at least they don’t have to work for Larry fucking Ellison any more.

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    9 days ago

    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?

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      9 days ago

      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.

      • CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works
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        9 days ago

        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.

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          7 days ago

          Your state leaders weren’t stupid, they were greedy corrupt piece of shits who were in on the scam with oracle

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            7 days ago

            I totally agree which is why i said even an average moron would have seen through this. They only like to pretend to be working for the people when elections are near.