Check this out:
http://www.businessinsider.com/oracle-board-reject-shareholder-gender-pay-gap-audit-2017-9
So much for openness and transparency.
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Of course they will. Oracle doesn't have an independent board comprised of people capable of independent thought. They're a bouncy on nobodies, firmly ensconced in LE's pocket doing his bidding.
I (female) worked for a s-xual pervert (director) who kept saying things to me like "so, are you heads down" on the project today. You just need to "work your way up". I'll call him Mr. Freak. Mr. Freak also started rumors about me that circulated behind my back. I am sure he lied to HR when I left the company about me.
Mr. Freak attacked another woman to see if she would "put out" for him and she left the project.
This guy, Mr. Freak, was buddy-buddy with another pervert who had a woman working for him. I'll call this second pervert Mr. Creep. I expect she was Mr. Creep's personal wh--e, although, from her point of view, she thought they were "in love". My opinion is that he was just manipulating her. Treated her like dirt. She was always trying to do things to please him. Very, very sick manipulative relationship.
Mr. Creep kept this wh--e elevated above the other developers on the team. He would manipulate the people on the team to feel sorry for her. She would do a little girl act to pretend she was so innocent. It was all crap.
I had to work with them. Mr. Creep told me that the woman was special and she had to have "special tasks" so she wouldn't have to work with the other people on the team. I was not going to do that. He also connected her with developers outside the team so she could copy their code and present it to the team like she had done the work. She only worked on separate little pieces of code, whatever she could get from the outside developers who were working with Mr. Creep. When that code needed to be integrated into the main code, someone else on the team had to do that work. That would be too complicated for her tiny brain.
There was another woman on the project. This woman was extremely competent. She was always sidelined, kept from demos, kept from getting credit, which always went to Mr. Creep's wh--e.
Mr. Freak, who I worked for, thought highly of Mr. Creep's arrangement with his personal wh--e. I think that he was trying to set up an arrangement of his own with the woman he attacked that left his project.
It's completely disgusting. I tried to tell HR about Mr. Creep and his wh--e, but they just said that they didn't see anything wrong there. HR is completely useless at oracle in terms of policing what is going on. I guess they don't care unless there is some immediately pending lawsuit.
I left Oracle. I was being treated like dirt by Mr. Freak. The previous manager I worked for, did not appear to be an open pervert like Mr. Freak, but he did sabotage things I was working on, kept me from meetings, gave me bad information, etc. I suspect that the other guys on the project knew what he was doing. He either lied about me behind my back to get them to not work with me or they knew outright what he was doing.
I was a very good developer, it is Oracle's loss that I left.
Mr. Freak was promoted to Senior Director in June. Has he pulled the wool over the eyes of the SVP that promoted him? I doubt it. I suspect the SVP is also a perverted, incompetent freak.
If you are a customer and you want to know why your oracle applications are broken... well these are the engineering managers who were in charge of developing it. They are more interested in their perverted pastimes than in giving a sh-- about something as meaningless as the application you paid for.
They ENJOY attacking women within the company. They know HR will cover for them and they know that the upper level management enjoys the same perversion they do.
If you are a shareholder, you are right to look into what's going on in the company. It's not pretty and they will do whatever they can to cover it all up. I am sure that Mr. Creep's wh--e has a pretty good salary, though. You should take that into account.
I, though, and I'm sure the other woman working for Mr. Creep, are likely far below normal on the compensation scale. I expect Mr. Creep's wh--e gets all the bonuses, too.
@PwGujbw-tdn : why do you assume those caught up in gender discrimination are low on productivity? Typically, female engineers that I've worked with are equal or higher in technical expertise, produce as much as more as male colleagues with similar responsibilities or projects, and are well- regarded by colleagues. But typically male managers don't see it. Their real liability is failure to have a certain small organ between their legs.
S-xual discrimination is rampant at Oracle. That's why they need to hide the facts.
Fairness dies in the darkness. Doesn't take much Brian power to see why oracle is against this. Oh, by the way, 3 x employees just filed a law suit against oracle on this very point.
Gender and nationality have everything to do with it. There is incontrovertible proof available showing Oracle has discriminated against women and minorities.
https://techcrunch.com/2017/09/29/former-oracle-employees-sue-company-for-alleged-pay-discrimination/
People are paid only as much as it would take to replace them. If your productivity is low you can be replaced by the next slug in line. So take a good, honest, objective look at your productivity. Gender or nationality has nothing to do with it... they're just used as excuses for substandard output.
This all the proof you need to see. Safra and Larry are greedy billionaires who underpay women, and anyone who is Chinese or Indian. Pay discrimination is a fact of life at Oracle.
If Oracle was as a progressive company like they claim in their public pronouncements, they would review everyone’s salaries and make the necessary adjustments. But unfortunately Oracle’s business model depends on underpaying women and minorities.