Now you can only view your vacation accruals via last pay stub :( Maybe it was a temporary removal but I doubt it. Sorry folks, the only way is via Fedex.
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If flex vacation was anything other than a way to get vacation burned down before layoffs I'd be shocked
@P3hMkff-ucz ... that is the exactly the reason
then this new platform is not scalable or IMO reliable. This shouldn't happen.
And we've disable the link because we can't handle the traffic is so lame, this isn't 1999.
@P3hMkff-ucz ... that is the exactly the reason
And didn't they recently migrate the entire SSA platform over to the cloud?
If what you are saying is true, then this doesn't bode well for our "scalable technology" does it?
It wouldn't be the first time someone migrated from SPARC and discovered things didn't scale so well any more. Ask Microsoft about Hotmail.
Everyone was running the vacation inquiry on yesterday ... more than few times...
So? That's supposed to justify the TITSUP?
Everyone was running the vacation inquiry on yesterday ... more than few times...
Oracles SSA page was down yesterday due to traffic ... the culprit was "vacation inquiry" .
I had no issues checking vacation on SSA yesterday. I did it several times throughout the day.
What do you expect? We're talking the effective equivalent of an internal DDOS attack given how many hits the server must have been absorbing.
SSA was meant to serve the entire employee population.
And didn't they recently migrate the entire SSA platform over to the cloud?
If what you are saying is true, then this doesn't bode well for our "scalable technology" does it?
Oracles SSA page was down yesterday due to traffic ... the culprit was "vacation inquiry" .
It's not shocking that Oracle is keeping a tight eye on expenses. All salaried employees accrued vacation are replaced with "FLEX" vacation .
Oracle re-worked the vacation plan and policy (in my group, at least), such that vacation is no longer formally tracked. This took effect at the beginning of this fiscal year. I'm surprised it took so long for them to update the tool...
was this a cloud failure ?
What do you expect? We're talking the effective equivalent of an internal DDOS attack given how many hits the server must have been absorbing.
it was removed for everyone .
was it removed for everyone or just those affected today?
Oracle HR & Legal is figuring out how to avoid Fedex or find out a way to send packages in stealth mode going forward.