Layoffs in Australia are coming, meetings are being scheduled with HR right now. This comes despite being advised of Oracle's global policy of zero redundancies during global times of crisis. This clearly was a lie and once again shareholders are priority number one. Not surprising - the only people this company cares less about than its customers are its employees.
Advice to anyone considering Oracle in the future (whether as an employee or as a customer): Don't work for a company where you're less than a number in a spreadsheet or data in it's subpar HCM cloud.
The ship is sinking and good riddance.
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My guess DR was expecting the top job after VL and FO gave up on Australia and went back to Europe. But instead Oracle chose recent hire CR to run Australia so no chance he was going to stick around after that. Hopefully CR can right the ship in Australia. My first impression is she's in over her head, but I hope to be proven wrong. Every time when we change senior leadership in Australia we lose momentum and credibility. This is what 3 times in 4 years?
DR quitting is a message that all Cloud and Tech sales people in Australia should really think about. He was a made man who survived all the recent blood baths and was running "the future". Would he have left if the outlook was positive?
Australian HR are heartless and callous b–ches. There is no policy of zero redundancies. Australian employees are "at will" which means they can and do kick people to the curb without a care. They are just careful to tick all the legal boxes.
Is NetSuite not selling?
NetSuite implementation team laid off this week.
The only sales management left in Tech are the worst of the worst backstabbers, along with useless "Senior Directors" who talk the talk and invent internal process to make themselves appear relevant. Good illustration of what is valued in Oracle Australia. Look out remaining customers, and look out employees.
Cuts in Tech sales management (probably the only humane manager they had), Tech sales, ACS, Education and Support. More to come in two weeks it is rumoured. Oracle Australia is f*cked as the management that remain are clueless. The management that left, Obermeier and that stupid Ukranian muppet, should have been sacked as their sales strategy was ill conceived at best. It’s such a shame as Oracle has some good technology and good people in the trenches but culturally it suffers from a lack of focus on the customer and on development of talent, preferring to hire and fire. Bottom line, don’t join Oracle expecting a career or inspiring management.
I personally know of more than 20 redundancies across the APPS team in AUS. While the GM that employed all this headcount in a crazy market share grab drive, that he was warned will not work, flies back to the USA and the VP relaxes on Noosa beach, Another great example of the Oracle narcissistic leadership
Melbourne Tech Cloud definitely affected including sales management. Not sure what other teams.
Paid basher?
I was made redundant. Like a lot of other people in Australia.
What are you even doing in this forum you heartless flog
Melbourne as well? Which org/teams affected?
Melbourne also affected
“Oracle's global policy of zero redundancies during global times of crisis“
I have never heard of such a thing. at Oracle or anywhere I have worked.
Tech Cloud Enterprise Sales in Sydney hit today.
I can confirm it as i have the meeting with HR tomm as well as other colleagues in OIT...@adrian...what is the redundancy policy in Aus...N+6?
Redundancies are here - announced this morning.
They know nothing?
I guess they are on the list.
No evidence, spoke to some gbu managers, they know nothing.
Sounds like bs to me.
“Oracle's global policy of zero redundancies during global times of crisis“ now that's funny...did someone look up that policy in 2009 during the first financial crisis when I and thousands of others were thrown onto the street with 2 weeks severance, no health care, no notice ? then Oracle called me up for the next 10 years to join back. There is no such policy, just another lie.
Good thing FO and VL saved Australia when RW was knifed two years ago.
Oh right, they fixed nothing and have gone back to Europe.
Paid basher..Bye bye -
“Oracle's global policy of zero redundancies during global times of crisis“
I’m sure there are volumes of exceptions to that one. It’s always the fine print that gets you in the end.
This can’t be true. Surely they are meeting to give ANZ Oracle employees a pay rise.
They’re busting it up and parting it out