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ORACLE LAYOFFS TARGETED EMPLOYEES WITH STOCK OPTIONS AND TENURE. Read through some of the posts from actual employees and it becomes more and more obvious what happened last week. Real Americans. Real jobs. All of this while pushing through record numbers of H-1B hires. Under Oracle's severance terms, all unvested restricted stock units are forfeited immediately upon termination. For senior employees, RSUs often represent 30% to 50% of projected annual compensation. These are not lottery tickets. They are earned compensation that disappears the moment you are terminated before your vesting date. Receipts: >One employee on Blind posted: "One of my friends was laid off from Oracle, but his RSU vesting date was Saturday, April 4, 2026. Will he still receive the stock?" >Nina Lewis spent 34 years at Oracle as a security alert manager. After being laid off, she posted on LinkedIn: "It seems layoffs follow an algorithm of high level individual contributors and mid-level managers, especially those with outstanding stock options." >Michael Shepherd, a senior manager at Oracle Cloud Infrastructure who was not laid off, posted on LinkedIn that the company had "conducted a significant reduction in force." He went on to say the reductions were not performance-based, included senior talent with deep expertise, and according disproportionately were those with outstanding equity. This was not a trimming of recent hires. Oracle cut institutional knowledge: >One of Oracle's first employees, with 40+ years of tenure, was laid off >A 27-year veteran posted on LinkedIn that a "major reorganization" ended their journey across Sun and Oracle >Kurt Frieden, 18 years at Oracle, posted that he was cut >Nina Lewis, 34 years >Marc Fitten described the layoffs as sudden and said "it was a lot of good and smart people" >Gary Olmsted wrote: "This morning I woke up to my Slack being disconnected and a nice email telling me my position had been eliminated" Let us not forget, days later, the company also hired a new CFO and handed her $26 million in stock. Oracle was just the first. No sector is safe.

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🤯BREAKING: Researchers just mathematically proved that AI layoffs will collapse the economy: and every CEO already knows it. The AI Layoff Trap. A game theory paper from UPenn + Boston University is glaringly important! 100K+ tech layoffs in 2025. 80% of US workers exposed. And no market force can stop it. → Every company fires workers to cut costs → Every fired worker stops buying products → Revenue collapses across every sector → The companies that fired everyone go bankrupt It's a Prisoner's Dilemma with math behind it. Automate and you survive short-term. Don't automate and your competitor kills you. But everyone automating destroys the demand that makes all companies viable. UBI (universal basic income) won't fix it. Profit taxes won't fix it. The researchers found only one solution: a Pigouvian automation tax "robot tax" The AI trap on the economy is here!

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