What are you guys hearing recently?
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I find that there is more and better information here than on Blind.
Rule: No news is good news with gary gnu's
For the guy who constantly puts spaces between his punctuation, do you even work at oracle?
are these layoffs for whole teams ?
I thought the reason for the layoffs that SPARC is dead . and no need for all these HW teams.
but if the layoffs are 30-50% , what is the point of keeping the rest ?
would this layoffs trigger WARN notice ?
if you want you know if you will be laid off on any given day, check you vacation balance when you arrive in the office,,,if your vacation balance has mysteriously been zeroed out that means they cut your final severance check which includes your vacation balance and that check will be arriving at your home by FedEx that morning
Sorry for those newcomers.
Well since we dwelling in rumors ... here is what I have heard:
Aug 24 is the next doomsday. Some say it will be HW only, others say Solaris will also get whack.
New colleges grads, especially in SCA, are going to let go, the reason being that given the future, and the history of no raises, they would leave anyway.
That a lot of people volunteered (informally) to be laid off. Of course this doesn't guarantee that they will be chosen.
That not enough people volunteered to be laid off.
Also heard this:
On the day before doomsday, if you can still access the HR webpage, that you're "safe"
Overheard a suggestion to sign up with FedEx to be notified when a package is shipped to you. If one is (and you aren't expecting one) then you know what that means,
Not sure, really. Someone made a reference that they may be affected next week, but it's all rumors for now. To be frank, at this point we are all just guessing here...