They are a rent-seeking, lawsuit-heavy cancer upon this Earth.
Oracle routinely sues its own employees.
Oracle routinely moves to stamp out innovation.
Oracle's stock price has increased over the past decade, but only from acquisition and price-gouging large corporations and agencies.
It is a racket. Working at Oracle is the antithesis of creating fun and useful software for everyone's gain.
For what?
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/01/26/oracle_sues_employe...
I can't imagine this was a good use of the company's lawyers' time (although it was probably good from the lawyers' perspective).
"get out there and dig in the dumpster for gold nuggets!"
Management orders her to cook the books, at a public company!!
She's fired, she sues.
Oracle counter sues.
How is this ethical?
With enough effort, I'm certain someone could out me. I'm not protecting my connection or device ID in any way.
>dirty laundry
All of the things I've cited about Oracle are public knowledge. If an employee of Monsanto says that RoundUp causes cancer, is that dirty laundry, or stating a scientifically proven fact?
http://www.who.int/foodsafety/jmprsummary2016.pdf?ua=1
https://www.iarc.fr/en/media-centre/iarcnews/pdf/MonographVo...
The short version is that glyphosate is unlikely to cause cancer in consumers or farm workers:
https://www.wired.com/2016/05/monsantos-roundup-herbicide-ca...
While not scientifically proven, the State of California currently classifies RoundUp as "probably carcinogenic".
More than 800 cancer patients have joined the lawsuit against Monsanto.
I don't know about you, but being exposed, for years and years, to something that requires a mask to administer. Hmmm gonna have to go with "more cancerous than a banana".
But in spite of tons of research all over the world no one was able to establish a causal link for dietary glyphosate residue. The herbicides before glyphosate were truly vile, look it up. Glyphosate is very targeted for plants, and based on its mechanism of action it's unlikely to be toxic or carcinogenic in humans or animals, including even fish and invertebrates.
So my money is on State of California being full of shit as usual. Put simply, between glyphosate and the alternatives it's not even a question that glyphosate is much safer.
Much like how you shouldn't weld without a mask, you shouldn't spray RoundUp without a mask. But the difference is that things that can be inhaled are very tricky compared to things that are just bright.
So even the right precautions can still lead to problems.
If someone who worked at a fiberglass plant told me not to breathe in fiberglass splinters, I would believe them, regardless of what the research has confirmed.
* http://bangaloremirror.indiatimes.com/bangalore/cover-story/...
* http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-karnatak...
TL;DR - An employee found fire safety violations in one of its Bangalore offices. He reported the violations internally. Nobody addressed the violations. He reported the violations to the cops. Oracle sacked and sued the employee.
Oracle India was even worse than Oracle. I truly feel terribly for the exploited workes there. You all had it way way worse than us.
Besides the poor hours of course, I can remember the following:
1) Unpaid overtime. 2) Spiteful, political management. 3) Revolving door of employees due to firings. 4) Replacements were not trained, so nobody was set up for success and growth.
These are just things I remember experiencing second or third-hand, but so much of the grunt work and broken processes flowed to my counterparts in Oracle India.
Their reward for trying to make sense of everything was being fired, regardless of performance.
Oracle US employees were usually spared a few years of runway until being laid off, regardless of performance.