https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15886728
And remember,
Do not fall into the trap of anthropomorphising Larry Ellison. You need to think of Larry Ellison the way you think of a lawnmower. You don’t anthropomorphize your lawnmower, the lawnmower just mows the lawn, you stick your hand in there and it’ll chop it off, the end. You don’t think ‘oh, the lawnmower hates me’ – lawnmower doesn’t give a shit about you, lawnmower can’t hate you. Don’t anthropomorphize the lawnmower. Don’t fall into that trap about Oracle. — Brian Cantrill (https://youtu.be/-zRN7XLCRhc?t=33m1s)
And
I actually think that it does a dis-service to not go to Nazi allegory because if I don’t use Nazi allegory when referring to Oracle there’s some critical understanding that I have left on the table […] in fact as I have said before I emphatically believe that if you have to explain the Nazis to someone who had never heard of World War 2 but was an Oracle customer there’s a very good chance that you would explain the Nazis in Oracle allegory. — also Brian Cantrill (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79fvDDPaIoY&t=24m)
(Wow your time stamps work. The last few years every time stamp I’ve written exactly like that, correctly, simply hasn’t been working. Just links to the beginning of the video. I really need to figure out what’s going wrong.)
I borrowed the comment wholesale from the first link, thank the OG ycombinator masklinn for their timestampery!
Hot damn, how did she manage to scam a whole company executive and its shareholders into thinking shes worth 29.7m dollarydoos?
“I will cook books and keep firing people until we make more money this q than last q”
Or that her inner circle of friends include someone in high up places.
Prior to joining Oracle, Maxson served as Executive Vice President and Group Chief Financial Officer at Schneider Electric, a global leader in electrification, automation, and digitalization with more than $45 billion in annual revenue. Since joining Schneider Electric in 2017, the organization has transformed from an electrical equipment supplier into a digital energy technology partner for key segments, like utilities and datacenters
Yup, there it is. For her industry contacts for getting power for datacenters. Not enough electricity to go around any more, Oracle needs people with connections in high positions.
It couldn’t possibly be rich parents.
That’s the worst heart gesture I’ve ever seen
C-suite hearts are like beef jerky from disuse.
That’s a heart? I thought she was doing a Mr. Burns
Where meme
No dark mode?! My eyes are burning.
Bro how the hell do you live with yourself using light mode anything? 🤮 🧑🦯😎🙈
this person opening lemmy:
I keep clicking that but the meme never shows up
I don’t think it’s a meme
You might be right. I just keep seeing don’t lame ass ceo making a heart with her hands.
Girl Boss!!! slay queen!
not just US problem though
Enough for 400 employees.
$74,250 per employee
Hm, is this low for this line of work? Genuinely asking.
About what I’ll make this year as a CNC machinist. And at least I’m making tangible and useful objects for jet engines and rockets (space, not war). A lot of those C suite executives do jack shit for humanity and get paid more in a week than I make actually working all year.
What’s it like to get in that line of business? Some sort of schooling needed?
You could maybe get a mechanical engineering degree, but CNC machining is pretty specialized, so a college curriculum might not be all that relevant. There are apprenticeship programs for that kind of thing though
In tech? Yeah that’s low.
I assume most of the layoffs were in support roles and not the main coders or hardware engineers. I assume it was a lot of secretaries and intern level stuff and phone rep and sales people supplemented by commissions and cleaning crew and maintenance jobs. Probably shut down some service offices too.
I doubt many sales. Sales are going to be some of the last people you cut. They’re the ones working to bring money in.
You don’t know what jobs they cut. It was likely service offices and phone help and secretaries and maintenance people and commissioned sales people and such. They couldn’t have cut 30,000 programmers and hardware engineers.
A rule of thumb is that a corporate employee costs their company roughly twice their salary. Probably not very many Oracle employees are making just $37,000 a year.
Like that justifies them getting pain that much?
No one deserves that much money and I’m not arguing in favor of what they did. I’m just pointing out that getting rid of that many people is way, way, more than $30,000,000 on a payroll.
pain. Yes, work is pain.
Existence is pain. Especially when typos screw you over.
Hardly a meme, even tho I agree with the sentiment.
There is no actual sentiment in the image, lol. On its face, it’s just stating two facts, not explicitly criticizing anything.
One could feasibly spread the exact same image as a positive thing, just depends on the audience.
That’s $1,000 per employee laid off. They might have been making $60,000 a year each.
$30 million is way too much to pay anyone (especially shareholders) but firing the CFO is not a silver bullet.
I own a free oracle cloud virtual instance because it was free and better than every other free service. 100% dedicated VI, 4Gbps network bandwidth, 4CPUs at around 2.5GHz, 24GB RAM, and 200GB. All free. And no possible way to ever go over since those are static when I created the instance.
This is for a personal project that I didn’t want hosted on my home server to expose to the open internet.
I justify using oracle because I’m technically costing them money with no downsides for me.
Fuck Oracle’s ownership though.
One of many.
Naaaw, that’s cuteee
Why is she potato’ing me…
People who make that heart shape with their hands need to be thrown into a hole full of diarrhea.
