When will this Oracle Sales layoffs nightmare be over? I just want to do my job and enjoy my family, really - is this too much to ask?
I'm worried sick throwing up just sick over this extreme stress.
They are just trying to dream things up to get rid of us at any cost why is this happening. I don't think I can take much more!
The advice to do the absolute minimum while looking for another job is very good advice. I wish I had been told this 7 months ago.
While my sales were the best in my group through April, I knew my manager wanted me gone (only woman in my group, only one over 40). He put me on a PIP he admitted was unattainable, but I've never been one to give up on anything. I figured it would help if I could bring in some deals I was working and show the incremental new Cloud opportunities I was generating. I worked double time, to the point that I started having chest pains and was unable to sleep more than 2 hours per night due to stress. I was past my breaking point but kept pushing anyways.
It didn't matter much. My manager gave me advanced warning prior to June 1, a few hours before my log-in credentials were cut off. Do you know what I did then? I slept. And slept. And slept. 12 hours a day. I muted my phone as just the sound of a text or call made me jumpy. I would wake up and feel the strangest thing: no stress. Then I'd sleep some more. For 3 weeks I slept, catching up on almost 6 years of sleep deprivation. I was far from depressed; I was able to relax for the first time in years. I guess you could say I was finally taking the vacation time that I had denied myself every year before. But burnout is real and extreme burnout can be deadly.
When I knew my days were numbered, I had a choice; kill myself trying to improve my numbers with the chance that it would make a difference or spend all my time looking for another job and insure my failure in my current job. I chose poorly. The second my manager decided my time was up, my fate was sealed. But the additional stress I put on myself set me back mentally, emotionally and physically.
Get out. Either find a way to be riffed (with severance and rehirability) or find a job somewhere else. If you think your days are numbered, whether correctly or not, take your career into your own hands and make your own destiny. I didn't and I regret it.
No you figure out the truth of performance management and value to the industry.
"Months to find a job - must be stellar."
Is this what you get for working at Oracle. You get pay cuts, you get no job security and then you get ridiculed?
Months to find a job - must be stellar.
@OvAnH5u-2lqe wow, when you get laid off what will be your excuse?
Dude, if your whole department is dropped like the channel partners in 2016, you can be the best of the best, the number 1 performer, and still get pushed out the p--p chute.
You have no clue and you will be caught with your pants down and no back up plan, when your number is up. All I can say is grab your ankles and hold on tight.
Overtime hourly worker? Top 30 percent doesn't get fired in these situations.
You're probably the guy who complains about not getting raises bonuses and stock. Sad.
@OvAnH5u-1qqi if you think you are safe, and you are not in OD, think again.
@OvAnH5u-1qqi --- try top 30%, if you work hard and Bill lots of overtime you are probably on this list. The only way to be safe is to be under 30 and not bill overtime... middle of the road, or just eat the overtime and work for free
Sorry you were in the bottom thirty percent of your org or lower at the time of the layoff.
I was RIF'ed a few months ago and am interviewing and sending out resumes. The folks here are right. Do the minimum and look for another job. I got severance, so don't YOU leave. LET them lay you off unless you get a really good position before-hand.
And to the putz that said "grow a pair", I suggest YOU grow up! This is hurting employees and their families that were loyal to the company.
Go on mental stress/anxiety leave . It;s real
Oh and to the guy/gal who keeps saying 'grow a pair' (or could be a robot ! ) why don't YOU grow up. It's the C21st, man !
I agree with a previous poster. Do the ABSOLUTE minimum amount of work, and spend your days on their dime looking for a new job.
Grow a pair.
If you leave they wont have to pay you severance. If they make the work environment toxic enough you will leave and they don't have to pay you a dime. Accept your fate, do the minimum to draw a paycheck and interview. No sweat as you are getting paid to find your next job elsewhere.
Its by design. The pressure is out there to make you leave.
I feel you brother. Don't rely on any corporation job. I survived a lay off two years ago, but the anxiety still there. I am planning to get the hell out of Oracle myself.
Dude, get a job at a normal company asap