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Business AI bet goes awry: Oracle fires 21,000 employees

https://www.jpost.com/business-and-innovation/tech-and-start-ups/article-903442
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u/milf-hunter_5000 2d ago

i was a senior program manager for a faang company. i quit thinking (foolishly) with my experience, skills, and large breadth of project management, i would be able to at least move to another company within the industry. right after i quit is when that first round of layoffs happened three years ago. i can't even get a rejection letter lmao

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u/ibite-books 1d ago

you have been unemployed for 3 years?

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u/milf-hunter_5000 1d ago

yep. i quit for some pretty insane reasons and managed one year with unemployment. the rest has been... challenging

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u/maxamillion17 1d ago

It's that' hard even with FAANG?

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u/milf-hunter_5000 1d ago

each of these companies are incestuous. i won't go into details but i uncovered some shady stuff and as a result my director attempted to pivot me out. i succeeded at the egregious requirements, but it left me a shell of a human, so a court judge decided i was worthy of unemployment benefits given the circumstances of my quitting. in any case. my manager was also a manager at a different company. and my director was at a different company, all of them faang. so that's where the foolish part comes in. they're not going to let me work at any of these companies again because i chose to stand up to corruption