AI bet goes awry: Oracle fires 21,000 employees

Couldn’t happen to a better group of companies. Let them all beg for bailouts and be denied.

While I agree with the anti Oracle sentiment, that’s 21,000 employees that didn’t say they wanted AI BS. The suits and ceos that do this aren’t the ones that pay the price. It’s always the ordinary people like you and I.

I don’t think employees can really be separated from the company mission. They might not be the ones who benefit the most, but they still receive some benefit in exchange for producing the outcome.

People resign from roles on ideological grounds all the time.

We’re still throwing out morality platitudes on tech workers as we’ve watched since COVID as the tech sector at all levels has bled jobs, senior staff looking for positions for 2-3 years in some cases.

It’s impossible out there. I have moral objections to the way my company operates too but if I quit now my family will lose everything. I mean thankfully I’m not exactly crushing orphans in the orphan crushing machine but in a sane market I would look for something a little more aligned with my personal ideals. However just like buying a stick of RAM for a reasonable price, it just ain’t happening right now.

It depends on the level of your objection I guess.

“My family’s homeless but at least I’m not working for a corporation anymore”

“I chose a job that I find satisfying even though I could earn more if I sold out”

Yeah again this leaves out the “job I already have” vs “mythical better job that simply doesn’t exist right now” part