• Lodespawn@aussie.zone
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    2 months ago

    Hot damn, how did she manage to scam a whole company executive and its shareholders into thinking shes worth 29.7m dollarydoos?

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      2 months ago

      “I will cook books and keep firing people until we make more money this q than last q”

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      https://www.oracle.com/news/announcement/oracle-appoints-hilary-maxson-as-chief-financial-officer-2026-04-06/

      Prior to joining Oracle, Maxson served as Executive Vice President and Group Chief Financial Officer at Schneider Electric, a global leader in electrification, automation, and digitalization with more than $45 billion in annual revenue. Since joining Schneider Electric in 2017, the organization has transformed from an electrical equipment supplier into a digital energy technology partner for key segments, like utilities and datacenters

      Yup, there it is. For her industry contacts for getting power for datacenters. Not enough electricity to go around any more, Oracle needs people with connections in high positions.

  • FoundFootFootage78@lemmy.ml
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    2 months 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.

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    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.

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      2 months ago

      Cause you’re thinking like an unhappy poor person. Not like someone who has the entire world at their disposal to consume and exploit.

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        This is absolutely right. Money to them isnt a tool for comfort and happiness, its simply a byproduct of power and exploitation of that power. These people dont want to be able to go into a bar and buy anything they want, they want to go into the bar and buy the whole thing and the street its on. Youre the consumer just wanting enough grass to munch on, they are the predator plotting behind you.

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      See and that is why I almost pitty such people. They never learned how to be a normal person. How to be satisfied with what you have. But I did say almost. Cause they make the world a shithole for the rest of us.

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        Yes I have, and I am not that. I would like a few tens of millions of dollars so I can sooth my anxiety that I will never want for anything again. But that is all.

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          Thats why people do, its like I just need this much, a little bit more, now I want to make sure my next generation or my kids won’t have to worry about money, more, more, more. Thats how irl works.

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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)

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      I suppose an empty hand gesture is about all the sociopaths in the c-suite can muster as far as conveying human-like emotions.

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    How dare tell USA their problem? Why don’t you go there and do something? Gwon! Gwon!! You little punk! If USA could do somethin, they would.

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      Yeah, this has been an East Asian thing for over a decade, but I don’t understand why all of a sudden women politicians and CEOs are doing it. Leave trends to the people who are actually liked, this is just gonna ruin it