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[–] cAUzapNEAGLb@lemmy.world 186 points 1 week 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 76 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I was thinking the dark side version of president skroob

[–] five82@lemmy.world 33 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] Croquette@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 week ago (2 children)
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[–] CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works 26 points 1 week 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 25 points 1 week 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.

[–] etherphon@piefed.world 5 points 1 week ago

No one told him he didn't need to both act and look like a cartoon villain.

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[–] SloppyJane@lemmy.blahaj.zone 19 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

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[–] massacre@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago

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

[–] Bakkoda@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago

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

[–] NekoKoneko@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago

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

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

[–] Jhex@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago
[–] gergolippai@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

this is the male equivalent of those MAGA women with the botched plastic surgeries.

[–] lemmyng@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

Needs more Bobby Kotick, with a dash of that evil sham pastor who actually looks like the devil.

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[–] W98BSoD@lemmy.dbzer0.com 60 points 1 week ago

One Rich Asshole Called Larry Ellison

[–] DarthPub@retrofed.com 52 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Walmart Tony stark is an asshole

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago

Phony Stark?

[–] cmbabul@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week 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 1 week ago (1 children)

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

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Look at that ghoul

[–] _haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.works 39 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

One

Rich

Asshole

Called

Larry

Ellison

[–] ObsidianZed@lemmy.world 37 points 1 week 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.

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 34 points 1 week ago

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

[–] hamid@crazypeople.online 33 points 1 week ago

Larry Ellison looks like the cartoon superlative of the devil

[–] qarbone@lemmy.world 33 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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 26 points 1 week 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 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

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[–] InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago

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

[–] BanMe@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week 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.

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

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

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

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

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

oof i didn't think it was that bad, i hadn't looked at actual numbers. iirc folk were doing 15-20 cuts back during the crises i was dealing with. wfh was unheard of back then tho, so like i get where you're coming from.

[–] diablomnky666@lemmy.wtf 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

The icing on the cake is that most of the offers are 6mo contracts, no benefits, with the option to hire or extend. This way the company can decide they don't really need the position in six months and walk away with no recourse.

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[–] DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 20 points 1 week ago
[–] redlemace@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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

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[–] DrCake@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (6 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?

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[–] maplesaga@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago

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

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

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

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[–] DylanMc6@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 week ago

We need socialism. Seriously!

[–] metermatic26@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week 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

[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week 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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[–] massacre@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week 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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[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 6 points 1 week ago
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