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@d2 Why "no way in H E double-hockey sticks NOT in August?
When I was let go - my notification was on Sept 2, day after Labor Day, and the week or so before, #watercooler was loaded with folks saying they were laid off is anyone else hiring. Well that channel is gone now, but O WAS laying off in August last year. Who's to say they're not going to do the same this year?
@ec I know it was, but it was there last year when I got it. Can't look at it NOW, I'm just telling what happened last year that was visible in #watercooler. Who's to say they're not going to do the same thing this year? You just won't have #watercooler to see it.
@e7 are you trolling? #watercooler channel was closed many many months ago
@at it September, that's when I got it, but people were being let go in August too. Last week or two, #watercooler was loaded with messages from people who got laid off and are there any openings they could move into. Folks responded with yes, we have openings in our teams, but they were too late, the rif'd people already lost access. :(
So yeah, if the next big one is September, it's reasonable to expect that folks might be rif'd in August too.
It has been determined that the recalls are resolved of people bs ing by the water cooler too much
@b6 That stuff USED to be posted to #watercooler, I was seeing a lot of them before I was let go. I was told they deleted that channel a week or so after I got it. Where ELSE is anyone to post about it? Heh, they SHOULD use #general, they're not going to delete that one.
Water cooler chatter at NC building 1 has been buzzing with potential RIF being announced mid March.
Can any other BU confirm?
What’s the latest word around the water cooler? Any update on the operating model or title changes? Or just anything in general?
Thursday is a great day because it's right before Friday. How do you guys feel about Thursdays?
Anyone here?
While we don't know exact count, rumour and water cooler chats are a buzz about ~1k cuts at each location / BU.
Majority of these are are level 6,7,8, squad leads, scrum masters and few 4,5 to make it seem random "business strategy alignment"
Sick joke, FU Bob 🖕🏻
Not like anyone would know if you did lol
Sir A Witty - where’s he with his gang? Concerned 😒
It is great that the bravado is back. Everyone knows how good NL and PL is. LFG! What is better than #1? #.01?
I think it’s a copy of the 14.1 user manual and all of FLD’s crayon drawings
@ak Back end of August (when #watercooler was still there - I heard Oracle nuked it) people were posting they were let go. I looked them up in Aria and they were almost all devops. CM's organization. It almost sounds like they started there.
@OP I hadn't realized this until I saw this post. Yep, it's now "archived." Wonder if it has anthing to do with the post on September 10, 2025 from the Slackbot that stated that #watercooler was added to the OraCorp-Legal workspace.
The two slack groups in the subject are gone as of this evening. There was a lot of posting from/about laid-off coworkers in #watercooler, while #wtf was ultimately a self-help group (with some blowing-off-steam, and good humor as well).
The death-knell has been sounded, for any semblance of life at Oracle prior to the 2025 layoffs.
I guess we get to keep #dad-jokes, a crumb left behind.
yes tracking members of #general is the way to go
#watercooler numbers can go up or down as other slack orgs add the channel for people to announce they are gone!
I check and now #watercooler is 38537. ups
how do you track layoff totals real-time?
the easiest proxy I found is #watercooler slack channel. it was over 40k participants at the start of the day.
it's 39662 now. so it reflects ~1% global workforce reduction in 8 hours
any better ways to track it?
Saw in #watercooler the goodbye messages starting to flow