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@andruyeung In my bucket list. How is the weather? Would you recommend this season?

I’m currently in Lofoten, Norway. I’ve never been anywhere like this before. It’s the most bizarre place I’ve ever been. For one, during the summer the sun does not set. 24 hours of daylight every day. The locals call it the Midnight Sun. It’s currently 12 AM and people are still hiking. Kids are still playing outside. After five days of consistent daylight I’m in a euphoric, trance-like dream state. Everyone should experience this at least once.

@soorajchandran_ This has been on my bucket list for some time. But its so so far away and flights are so expensive, I am yet to plan this. Hope soon, thanks for sharing.

Back home after an epic three weeks and a bit in Argentinian and Chilean Patagonia. Heart and memory card is full. It was my first >10k (Euros) trip. But totally worth it.

@hikingshawty Every day I open this platform, yours is the first post I see. Its right there on top! You are my inspiration and guru! 🙂

today i walked five miles and i had lasagna for dinner <3 ✨

@gothburz On which slide are the details for your 12th separation event? When? Emails at 5 am next?

I am the Senior Vice President of Human Resources at Oracle Corporation. Last Tuesday, I sent an email to 30,000 people at 6 AM. Yesterday morning, I onboarded 1 person at $950,000 a year. Both were my responsibility. Both were executed flawlessly. The email said: "After careful consideration of Oracle's current business needs, we have made the decision to eliminate your role as part of a broader organizational change. As a result, today is your last working day." I signed it "Oracle Leadership." Not my name. Not the co-CEOs' names. Not anyone's name. Leadership. Leadership is a signature that cannot be fired. At 6:01 AM, our infrastructure team disabled 30,000 badges. Revoked 30,000 VPN tokens. Locked 30,000 laptops. Wiped 30,000 voicemails. Suspended 30,000 email accounts. By 6:04 AM, 30,000 people were staring at a login screen that would never accept their password again. The email reminded them they were "prohibited from downloading, copying, or retaining any Oracle confidential information." 3 people called the HR hotline before 6:15. 2 asked if the email was real. 1 asked if she could retrieve a photo of her daughter from her desktop. I directed all 3 to the separation portal. That's data security. I've managed 11 separation events. This was the cleanest. 30,000 endpoints terminated in under 4 minutes. I sent the email from a template in PeopleSoft called TERM_MASS_COMM_v4. The v4 is important. Version 1 had a paragraph that said "we value your contributions." Version 2 shortened it to a sentence. Version 3 shortened it to "thank you." Version 4 removed it entirely. Legal flagged it in 2024. You cannot say you valued something you are discarding at 6 AM. Liability exposure. That's risk management. The co-CEOs approved the plan in 11 minutes. I timed it. I always time approvals. Clay Magouyrk and Mike Sicilia. They received $250 million and $100 million in stock option grants when they took the roles in September. They asked about the WARN Act filing timeline. They asked about the restructuring charge projection. They did not ask how the employees would be notified. They did not ask when. That's executive alignment. In January, TD Cowen published an analyst note. It said cutting 20,000 to 30,000 employees would generate $8 to $10 billion in incremental free cash flow. We needed that cash. Our AI data center capital expenditures are projected at $50 billion this fiscal year. We had a $20 billion shortfall. The 30,000 people were the shortfall. I don't call it that in the board deck. Slide 14 has a waterfall chart. The left column is labeled "Current Headcount Cost." The right column is labeled "Redeployable Capital." The 30,000 people are the bridge between the 2 columns. They are a blue arrow. Calibri 11pt. That's strategic planning. 1 day before the email, on Monday, our 5-year credit default swaps hit 198.6 basis points. That is the highest level in Oracle's history. Higher than December 2008. Higher than the financial crisis itself. The market is pricing our debt at levels not seen since Lehman Brothers still had a lobby. We carry $124.7 billion in debt on the books. We added $39 billion in 9 months. Our trailing free cash flow is negative $24.74 billion. I included this in the board deck on slide 3. Nobody discusses slide 3. Slide 3 is where we put the things that are true. That's transparency. By Thursday, the H-1B data reached the press. 3,126 petitions. We filed them while scheduling the separation event. Same department. Same quarter. Same PeopleSoft instance. The termination workflow is TERM_MASS_COMM_v4. The visa sponsorship workflow is ONBOARD_H1B_STD. They share a database. They share a help desk queue. They share a budget line. 1 workflow removes 30,000 people who built the cloud infrastructure. The other sponsors 3,000 replacements to continue building it. I manage both workflows from the same standing desk. That's human resources. An employee posted on Blind that it was "a slap in the face." I know which employee. We have analytics on Blind. Sentiment tracking, attribution modeling, post velocity. His post received 4,200 upvotes in 12 hours. I flagged it for Corporate Communications. Communications sent me a thumbs-up emoji. Nobody drafted a response. That's stakeholder management. Yesterday morning, Hilary Maxson started as our new Chief Financial Officer. Base salary: $950,000. Annual performance bonus target: $2.5 million. Equity package: $26 million — $20.8 million time-based, $5.2 million performance-based, vesting over 4 years. We are also covering up to $250,000 in relocation expenses. Her offer letter is 7 pages. The separation notice I sent 30,000 people is 4 paragraphs. I managed both documents. The compensation committee approved her package on the same call where we reviewed the $2.1 billion restructuring charge. We have recorded $982 million of that charge so far. That is what 30,000 people cost on a balance sheet. The CFO's equity package is 1.2% of the restructuring line. A rounding error. No — less than a rounding error. A rounding error's rounding error. That's market-competitive compensation. Our Slack user count dropped from 165,000 to 155,000 in a single day. If you have access to the admin panel, you can watch the number fall in real time. I have access. It drops fast between 6:04 and 6:11 AM. Then it slows. Stragglers. People who hadn't opened their laptops yet. People in Pacific Time who were still sleeping when their career ended. By 7:00 AM, the line flattens. I watched it from my standing desk with a coffee. The line goes down smoothly. No bumps. No steps. Just a slope. That's attrition analytics. In Kansas City, I filed WARN notices for 539 people. 85 software developers. 43 systems analysts. 39 program managers. In Washington, 491 people. 270 software developers. 46 development managers. These are the people who built Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. We are now spending $50 billion to expand it with different people on ONBOARD_H1B_STD. The WARN filing lists the separation date as June 1. The email said today is their last working day. The badge stopped working at 6:01 AM. 3 different dates for the same event. That's compliance. 12,000 of the 30,000 were in India. Bangalore. Hyderabad. Pune. India does not require WARN notices. This is not why 12,000 of them were in India. But it is why nobody has to file anything. That's jurisdictional planning. The quarterly earnings call was March 10. 21 days before the email. The co-CEOs announced $553 billion in remaining performance obligations. They said demand for AI infrastructure "continues to exceed supply." The analysts upgraded their estimates. The stock is down 57% from its peak. It was $326 in September. It is $146 today. Larry Ellison's net worth is $188.7 billion. He has not made a public statement about the layoffs. He has not been asked to. That's governance. Trust in the Q4 engagement survey dropped 34 points. I reported it under "Culture Health Metrics." My manager said the numbers were "expected for a rebalancing of this scale." She told me to revisit it next quarter. I will revisit it next quarter. By then the Slack count will have stabilized. The Blind posts will have cycled off the front page. The ONBOARD_H1B_STD workflows will have completed. The new CFO will have her equity vesting schedule configured in PeopleSoft. And the 30,000 will be on LinkedIn, adding "open to work" above the Oracle logo they can no longer access. I will be here. At my standing desk. Managing the workflows. 30,000 separation emails sent at 6:00 AM. 3,126 H-1B petitions filed the same quarter. $26 million in equity for the new CFO. $350 million in stock options for the 2 co-CEOs. $188.7 billion in personal wealth for the chairman. $124.7 billion in corporate debt. 198.6 basis points on the credit default swaps — higher than 2008. Negative $24.74 billion in free cash flow. $50 billion in AI capital expenditure. 1 PeopleSoft instance. 2 workflows. Same server. TERM_MASS_COMM_v4 and ONBOARD_H1B_STD share a database. That's human resources.

@etihad @EtihadHelp Considering the current scenario is still uncertain for non-essential travel, kindly extend your window for free rebooking/refund. Both Emirates and Qatar have extended.

@phalgooon Are you trying to find one or is she lost??

How to find your wife in a day

@Amockx2022 Not even one

Is there anyone who has never watched any of these movies? 🔥 Dhurandar Tejas Fighter Aricle 370 Emergency 72 Hoorain Accidental Prime Minister The Kerala Story The Kashmir Files Main Atal Hoon Not even one

@VanceE That was my question too, when i landed in Melbourne early this year! Sad.

Just landed in Australia… Where the fk are all the Australians?

@ShachiGambhir I spent 2 weeks in Germany as a tourist, couple of years ago and it was one of the nicest experience for me. A high school kid even offered me his seat on a very crowded train. Surprised to read about your experience.

Just spent a few days in Germany, and it’s easily the least welcoming country ever. People constantly stare at you with weird faces, strangers on trains will deliberately block the seats next to them. The overall vibe is hostile. Regretting every penny spent here.

@imnottanmay The best airline India ever had.

you miss the sun when it starts to snow

@vvargxs India. Sadly, I live here

Which country would you never visit, even if the trip was free?

Bangalore, look up

@gauravsabnis All the food pics are making me drool. Do you post recipes online anywhere? Or published a book?

Mutton is first love of course. I make and eat it also. 😋 I typically eat over a thousand meals in a year so I don't need to choose. I circulate meats. Sab khayega apun. Even that dal makhni naan.

Few weeks ago, I walked 5 kms to a lake and back and ate an ice-cream later as it was very hot.

@petitewalks I was here last June and i can't wait to go back. Beautiful pictures 🤩

walked from wengen down to lauterbrunnen and then up to murren, big hiking day but absolutely worth it 🏔️🤍

@andrewswalks Beautiful pictures👌

Awe inspiring mountain scenery on today's walk up and over Seefelder Spitze, Austrian Tyrol. Despite appearances, the path across the screes was perfectly safe

@abhinav_g21 Happy birthday! 🎉

Happy Birthday to me First time in years, the clock hit 12 and not a single call. Strange how silence hurts more when you expect even a little.

@kiraataka_2 Can make dry dish adding raw cashewnuts

ಈಗ ಕಿತ್ತಿದ್ದು. What to do? 😛

@songtoseagull Wow! You're living the dream of many ❤️.

@petitewalks The Holiday

guysss help me, i need recommendations. what’s your go-to comfort movie?