I was RIF'd but I love Oracle too much that I want to find a job with them somewhere somehow. Has anybody who got RIF'd been rehired by Oracle? How did you manage it?
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This one relisted below from another user is so true:)
Apply for a position in Oracle Digital or another department. Its important that you take a 50% pay cut. It should be about half what you used to make. MH will be happy to hire you back at 50% or less of salary. He needs half your salary for his earnings numbers, it helps drive up the stock price and increases his compensation.
Don't think of it as a pay cut. Think of it as a donation to MH's bonus. That's where the car allowance money, the vacation time outside of the holidays, the over time pay and your bonus went anyway.
Yes - a couple of incredibly incompetent sales reps and SE’s laid off in 2009 were rehired a few years later.
Not all RIFees are eligible for re-hire. Some people who are fired are sent out as RIFees (with payment) to shut them up.
If you go through the RIF paperwork, at least for gardening leave departures, there is a lifetime limit of something like 3 job OFFERS.
There are certainly friends of some execs that make comebacks, as highlighted in the summit, but for the most part the default answer from EVP's to a rehire is "no".
Are you eligible for re-hire if you voluntarily leave ? I left voluntarily, and the deal is that my manager wasnt happy about me leaving and wanted me to stay as he bent over backwards to hire me. And I broke their trust by leaving early as I didn't like the job.
Oracle the cold blooded corporation run by greedy, self serving Aholes like LE. sC and MH, neck deep in cloud fraud is not your family! Get a grip!
"The company is like a family and it always felt like the company cared for me and my family over and above our expectations. Oracle is a wonderful place to work so those thinking of leaving should take a reality check."
LOL! You're funny. I'd say your Oracle experience may not be widely shared. Let's put it this way...spouse who was part of the 9/1/17 RIF messaged me the other day to remark that his new employer provides tissue boxes for its employees. Like they were incredulous that provided tissues was a "thing" at the new employer because Oracle only provided toilet paper.
I left Oracle to go to another job but those jobs aren't all that they're made out to be. I also would love to get rehired at Oracle. The company is like a family and it always felt like the company cared for me and my family over and above our expectations. Oracle is a wonderful place to work so those thinking of leaving should take a reality check.
"If your entire product/group/org was shut down and RIFed and you were collateral damage, and you have valuable skills for an open position, you can probably get rehired."
This is definitely true, I was hit on 9/1/17 and started working in a different group one week later (same salary). But I did not apply for the position, the manager of that group - my current manager - contacted me.
They are wrong. You will be eliigble for rehire if you are RIFed. They are not going to flag you as a 'no-hire' if you were RIFed. They use the 'no-hire' flagged for people that have been 'FIRED', not layoffs. I was RIFed from Oracle years ago (early 2000's) and rejoined another group four months later.
Put down the crack pipe and brush up your resume on LinkedIN.
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Meth-head.
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I would strongly suggest a mental health evaluation to be followed by years of therapy and some serious prescription drugs. You are not a mentally healthy person as you desperately need help. Good luck to you!
I would consider psych evaluation prior to proceeding.
It depends on whether you were flagged as rehire eligible in the HR system. Which usually depends on why you were rif’ed. If your entire product/group/org was shut down and RIFed and you were collateral damage, and you have valuable skills for an open position, you can probably get rehired. If you were “selectively” RIFed from a group that continues to exist, it probably wasn’t really an elimination of your particular role, but rather a careful if possibly unfair selection of you (of course, no one wants to hear that and it will not be the official reason for your RIF). In that case I would not expect that you will be eligible, and as a hiring manager I probably would not attempt to get you approved. Again, not saying that the selection is fair or anything.
It's possible but normally you will be told when you are RIFed . Good Luck !
It is rarely allowed, and the only instances noted are ones where HR has been instructed to contact certain RIF'd people. The general policy appears to be no re-hire is possible. Good luck.
Apply for a position in Oracle Digital or another department. Its important that you take a 50% pay cut. It should be about half what you used to make. MH will be happy to hire you back at 50% or less of salary. He needs half your salary for his earnings numbers, it helps drive up the stock price and increases his compensation.
Don't think of it as a pay cut. Think of it as a donation to MH's bonus. That's where the car allowance money, the vacation time outside of the holidays, the over time pay and your bonus went anyway.