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[–] cAUzapNEAGLb@lemmy.world 196 points 3 weeks ago (17 children)

Does he try to look like the devil, or does that apperance just like, manifest itself after doing enough evil?

[–] ShellMonkey@piefed.socdojo.com 81 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

I was thinking the dark side version of president skroob

[–] five82@lemmy.world 37 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] Croquette@sh.itjust.works 10 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)
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[–] CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works 29 points 3 weeks ago

WTF I can't believe thats a real photo. It looks like someone cut two heads in half and then swapped halves before squishing them back together.

[–] DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 27 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Remember this is the BEST he can look. The hair color, the skin ointments and surgery, all of it. This is him at his best.

This guy was never a looker.

Also, the gloves are off for the filthy rich, we should attack them on every level, including calling them ugly. Never defend a monster.

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[–] SloppyJane@lemmy.blahaj.zone 20 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I was JUST going to say!! Disney Villain looking ass lmao

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[–] massacre@lemmy.world 15 points 3 weeks ago

He looks so old that even the botched plastic surgeries are looking old now. Damn he looks frail....

[–] NekoKoneko@lemmy.world 12 points 3 weeks ago

If you're evil nowadays, you can just buy a Mar-a-lago face to short circuit the whole process.

[–] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 12 points 3 weeks ago

How can you afford to own your own island but not afford a suit that fits?

[–] Bakkoda@lemmy.world 12 points 3 weeks ago

It's a combination of buccal fat removal (apparently everyone is doing this?), hard drugs probably and shit genetics.

[–] Jhex@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago
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[–] W98BSoD@lemmy.dbzer0.com 61 points 3 weeks ago

One Rich Asshole Called Larry Ellison

[–] HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 55 points 3 weeks ago

Look at that ghoul

[–] DarthPub@retrofed.com 53 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Walmart Tony stark is an asshole

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 16 points 3 weeks ago

Phony Stark?

[–] cmbabul@lemmy.world 12 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

This is somehow both an insult to Tony Stark and Walmart. At least Walmart is just old fashioned business bastard evil and not, to my knowledge, apocalyptic techno-feudalist with immorality aspirations that belong in anime or comic books and a fucked up mannequin face

[–] DarthPub@retrofed.com 8 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I was going for cheap rip off version of Tony stark based on looks

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[–] _haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.works 39 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

One

Rich

Asshole

Called

Larry

Ellison

[–] ObsidianZed@lemmy.world 38 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah this was fun. I got the email on my last day of vacation I took for my honeymoon.

I've heard of much worse those, people that had been there 30+years, a woman 6 months pregnant, and someone diagnosed with cancer, all without insurance now, not that Oracle offered great insurance to begin with. It was UHC.

[–] hamid@crazypeople.online 34 points 3 weeks ago

Larry Ellison looks like the cartoon superlative of the devil

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 34 points 3 weeks ago

Look on the bright side, at least they don't have to work for Larry fucking Ellison any more.

[–] qarbone@lemmy.world 33 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (6 children)

First, Epic, now Oracle.

I'm never gonna get another job in software, am I?

Edit: I physically let out a cry of pain after reading possibly 10,000 engineers of varying seniority had been fired (incident was reported on LinkedIn and judged based on the dip in Oracle's internal Slack membership count).

Yeah, I should just start trying to move into a new field, huh.

[–] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 27 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

I trained as a clown at literal clown school. Everyone laughed at me and told me I should've been a software engineer. Well, no ones laughing now.

[–] gergolippai@lemmy.world 12 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

so you're a bad clown then?... :)

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[–] InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 10 points 3 weeks ago

I feel you here. I graduated into covid and then as soon as things started opening again all these non stop layoffs

[–] melfie@lemmy.zip 8 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

The coal miners were told to learn to code, but maybe software engineers should be learning coal mining at this point. With all the AI data centers being built, there sure is going to be a lot of demand for coal.

[–] Damage@feddit.it 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

learn electrician...ship? it's always useful, especially when there's lots of solar panels to install

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[–] BanMe@lemmy.world 8 points 3 weeks ago

Just speaking for myself, as a systems administrator, I am actively pursuing my backup plans to get out of IT ASAP. What's coming is topsy-turvy and will be dog eat dog.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 6 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

it's possible. just, if you are looking right now, don't expect the same salary you were getting. Be willing to take a minor pay cut, and be willing to take a service industry job just to get money. (that never touches your resume)

I was in accounting and very underemployed when Arthur Andersen disintegrated. And then again for Lehman Brothers. It was rough, but I got through.

the job search will destroy your soul. take breaks to keep yourself from doing things you will regret.

[–] diablomnky666@lemmy.wtf 14 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

Minor pay cut?! Try 30% and no work from home. Companies smell blood in the water and low balling salaries across the board.

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[–] DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 20 points 3 weeks ago
[–] DrCake@lemmy.world 16 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (7 children)

I can’t believe Oracle has 10,000 employees to begin with. What the hell are they doing that even needs that many people to begin with?

[–] VeryVito@lemmy.ml 35 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Writing iron-clad, deal-with-the-devil level contracts that cannot be broken by mere customers. And nipping open-source projects in the bud via mergers and acquisitions.

[–] CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works 25 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

These bastards grifted $300 million dollars from my state to build a single website for the Healthcare exchange after the ACA was passed. It never once worked and was scrapped for the federal government's own version immediately after its "release." To be fair, I also blame our state leaders for this as even your average moron could see this coming from a mile away. Even if it did work, who the fuck would spend 1/3 of a billion dollars to build a webpage.

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[–] redlemace@lemmy.world 16 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

But hey! We are in on the AI bubble !! /s

[–] allywilson@lemmy.ml 11 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

When they renamed 23c to 23ai I cringed so hard. You don't install the DB and get an AI, you get an empty DB that has vectors.

[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 10 points 3 weeks ago

I mean, that wasn't the first rename for silly reasons. There is a long tradition of this for Oracle DB naming. That "c" in 23c meant "cloud". Nothing about the DB 23c required it to installed or run in the cloud. That was in 2012 with DB 12c. Before that in 2003 it was "g" in DB 10g for "grid" (remember the grid computing hype?). Before that in 1998 it was "i" in DB 8i for "internet".

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[–] maplesaga@lemmy.world 15 points 3 weeks ago

Feels like a month ago they were spending billions on some AI scheme.

[–] itisileclerk@lemmy.world 12 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Is this AI image or this scumbag is mimicking Trump's hair.

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[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Wouldn't be surprised if, somewhere among these tens of thousands laid off this year so far, there's another Luigi willing to go full old school Teamster.

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[–] DylanMc6@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 3 weeks ago

We need socialism. Seriously!

[–] metermatic26@lemmy.world 7 points 3 weeks ago

Oracle completely missed the jump to cloud and, like Informatica or SAS, it’s been outcompeted by the likes of Microsoft, Google, Snowflake and Amazon for years now.

But hey, that’s not going to go down well with the shareholders, so just say you’re cutting jobs because you’re streamlining your business through the marvels of AI…

That said, who exactly are the people that are being let go? I can imagine the old guard still working at ‘their’ company, but firing young engineers hardly seems like a winning strategy

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 6 points 3 weeks ago
[–] massacre@lemmy.world 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Anyone taking odds on this being a prepare for the bubble popping vs. the corporate line that it's to invest further into AI?

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