Oracle cuts jobs across sales, engineering, security

Oracle laid off thousands of employees on Tuesday as it ramps spending on AI infrastructure projects internally and with major technology partners. The layoffs were carried out via email, according to copies of the message viewed by Business Insider. The email told affected workers they would be terminated immediately and to …

[JohnSheeran]

I'm sure the current knuckleheads in charge will find some way to show these job losses as a positive for the US jobs report.

[Clausewitz4.1]

” … some way to show these job losses as a positive for the US jobs report.”

By cutting jobs in SALES ?!?! AI chatbots cannot even do callcenter right

[UCAP]

Tell that to the Harvard MBAs who are in charge.

[TVU]

Indeed, and that level of staff cuts can only result in one thing - a worse service for their customers.

[Strahd Ivarius]

Service for customers?

This is Oracle!

[jake]

That reminds me, I need to line up a bull for the cows ...

[Doctor Syntax]

Forget sales. Licence audits are the money-maker now.

[Blue Screen of Bleurgh]

One hopes those people made redundant will find similar jobs elsewhere. Trouble is though, exactly where and who wants to employ humans when AI bots will do the job anyway!

Not much of New World for them, and probably thousands more to follow as the big guns perform similar clear outs of human collateral

[Anonymous Coward]

Grateful for the experience of being fucked over by a parasite company, whose products are habitually shite - Oracle Fusion, Cerner at VA.

Keep drinking the American Kool-Aid.

[jake]

Oracle cut SALES staff‽‽‽

There's hope for the world, after all!

[You aint sin me, roit]

Re: Oracle cut SALES staff‽‽‽

It's a start... we'll know for sure when they start cutting their legal teams.

[Anonymous Coward]

"a 20-year Oracle veteran in the security group said he had no bitterness"

The severance package presumably contains a clause that prohibits bad-mouthing the Company, so yes, absolutely no bitterness.

[2141]

It's either in the contract or those on the front line of staff cuts fear they may not find alternative work in their diminishing jobs market. Appearing sycophantically grateful for being kicked in the head is likely a survival strategy, not real sentiment.

[Bebu sa Ware]

alternative work in their diminishing jobs market.

The massive drop in real innovation in all aspects of technology is also rapidly destroying the pool of alternative roles. So decreasing supply side with increasing demand. I can see near irreparable structural damage enduring long past the demise of the AI delusion. We are losing the talent, enthusiasm and vision of a generation of younger STEM workers which might never be restored.

These fools think they are turning on the lights of agentic AI to illuminate the world, but really they are turning off the light of reason, likely plunging the planet into a desperate darkness which will ultimately frustrate their underlying, insatiatiable greed.

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: alternative work in their diminishing jobs market.

AI will lead to the rout of Humanity… all to shovel more wealth to the 0.001%.

You can’t build an economy reliant on discretionary spend on Walmart.com Curbside pickup Kart pushing jobs….. (well until the robots can do that too). The GOP/0.0001% won’t pay for Universal Basic Income.

Blue Pill time- the AI needs power.

[vtcodger]

The Red Queen's Gambit

What need has a software company for Security when they have AI? Off with their heads!!!

Prediction: This will end badly

[ecofeco]

Re: The Red Queen's Gambit

End badly for Oracle?

Let's hope so!

[Groo The Wanderer - A Canuck]

And the disparity between "have" and "have not" in the world just keeps growing by leaps and bounds with the likes of Ellison playing with obscenely expensive toys like his yacht while the "average" employee gets the shaft to pay for it all...

[Anonymous Coward]

Obscenely expensive toys like Paramount SkyDance and Warner Discovery…..

[Mark Exclamation]

All this switching to AI is going to end badly. Yesterday, as I couldn't get through on the phone (30 minute wait, then hung up), I had the unfortunate task of online chatting with an AI bot at one of Australia's largest energy retailers. It couldn't do anything. It just told me to repeat on their app what I had just tried on their website. Same result (definition of AI madness?). Never managed to be able to do what I wanted to do so switched my business to another energy provider where I could talk to a real person within minutes. AI seriously sucks!

[EricM]

Part of the problem is IMHO: Many companies are rolling out AI 'solutions' today just for the sake of showing they are using AI, to try to convince others (or themselves) they are "bleeding edge".

Usability or "fit for purpose" be damned.

AI solutions in most cases are inferior to what they replace, and the fact they are non-deterministic is actually their only property that is 100% deterministic...

This leads to some additional initial revenue for companies like Oracle ... however, I don't see that lasting ...

[Anonymous Coward]

Inferior, but cheaper. Keep the cSuite bonus’s rolling in.

[Vocational Vagabond]

The Lawnmower does not care

no one can top Bryan Cantrill's description .. https://youtu.be/-zRN7XLCRhc?t=2175

[Aladdin Sane]

That all cash deal for WBD isn't going to fund itself.

[Jude Bradley]

GIGO

[Anonymous Coward]

Die, die, die, my darling...

[Anonymous Coward]

inhuman acceleration

contacted the sales of a company,. got email back that repeatedly said the same thing. then i asked if it was a bot. the emails stopped and they never replied an email anymore. i wonder i insulted a bot or a human, but i dont actually care anymore because companies are becoming increasingly inhuman.