• FoundFootFootage78@lemmy.ml
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    6 days ago

    That’s $1,000 per employee laid off. They might have been making $60,000 a year each.

    $30 million is way too much to pay anyone (especially shareholders) but firing the CFO is not a silver bullet.

  • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca
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    6 days ago

    People who make that heart shape with their hands need to be thrown into a hole full of diarrhea.

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    7 days ago

    Call me medieval, but I don’t understand these people… If I somehow had a ploy to make that kind of money in one shot I’d make like a bandit and vanish… Then retire. That kind of money is never work again money. I could retire at 30 and die in my 80s a rich man.

  • Godric@lemmy.world
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    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15886728

    And remember,

    Do not fall into the trap of anthropomorphising Larry Ellison. You need to think of Larry Ellison the way you think of a lawnmower. You don’t anthropomorphize your lawnmower, the lawnmower just mows the lawn, you stick your hand in there and it’ll chop it off, the end. You don’t think ‘oh, the lawnmower hates me’ – lawnmower doesn’t give a shit about you, lawnmower can’t hate you. Don’t anthropomorphize the lawnmower. Don’t fall into that trap about Oracle. — Brian Cantrill (https://youtu.be/-zRN7XLCRhc?t=33m1s)

    And

    I actually think that it does a dis-service to not go to Nazi allegory because if I don’t use Nazi allegory when referring to Oracle there’s some critical understanding that I have left on the table […] in fact as I have said before I emphatically believe that if you have to explain the Nazis to someone who had never heard of World War 2 but was an Oracle customer there’s a very good chance that you would explain the Nazis in Oracle allegory. — also Brian Cantrill (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79fvDDPaIoY&t=24m)