Andrew Dennis

I'm an IT professional, avid sports enthusiast, center-right kinda guy. Always laughing, always learning, always trying to improve. #YNWA #FLYEAGLESFLY #REDSOX

[Abandon, Wild @ToniGarrisonJM]

Don't know who needs to hear this, but the inability to take constructive criticism and to have a measured convo with conflicting viewpoints without getting offended and lashing out—when there's no personal attack—is a sign of low intelligence.

[Andrew Dennis @madald2]

@sluggahjells @TWDTV1 Kenny kicking in the same direction each time.

[Andrew Dennis @madald2]

@VirtudMental Blah blah blah blah

[Andrew Dennis @madald2]

@vahphor With a Celtic as a former Laker wife? Damn.

[Andrew Dennis @madald2]

@NationwideRadio PREACH!

[Andrew Dennis @madald2]

PREACH!

[Andrew Dennis @madald2]

It appears Jamaica is not excluded from this strategy.

[Peter Girnus 🦅 @gothburz]

I am the VP of Workforce Economics at Oracle. We are worth $420 billion.

On Tuesday, we sent 30,000 employees a termination email at 6 AM.

Not 9. Not business hours. Six in the morning. They woke up to the word "eliminated."

The email came from "Oracle Leadership." Not a manager. Not a name. Oracle Leadership.

It said: "We are grateful for your dedication, hard work, and the impact you have made."

By the time they read the word "grateful," their access to email, files, and Slack had already been revoked. The gratitude was the last Oracle communication they received.

We did not eliminate the roles. We eliminated the salaries.

In the same fiscal year, we filed 3,126 H-1B petitions to hire foreign workers. 436 this year alone. The roles are identical. The pay is not.

An H-1B software engineer earns $87,000. The domestic median for the same work is $106,000. Eighty-three percent of H-1B workers are classified at entry-level wages for senior positions.

The industry calls this a skills gap. It is a pay cut that requires a passport.

The visa is tied to the employer. If the worker leaves, they lose their legal right to remain in the country. If they negotiate, they risk the same. If they organize, the sponsor declines to renew.

That is retention.

Our revenue this quarter is $17.2 billion. Up 22%. Net income up 95%. We have $553 billion in committed future contracts. Up 325%.

These are not the numbers of a company that needs to lay anyone off.

We took a $2.1 billion restructuring charge. That is the cost of the gratitude. It frees up $8 to $10 billion in annual cash flow. That cash services $156 billion in AI data centers we are building. Starting 2028, OpenAI pays us $82 million per day.

Larry Ellison is worth $189 billion. He pledged $51 billion in Oracle shares as collateral for the Stargate AI venture. Announced at the White House.

The stock rose 4% on Tuesday. The day of the 6 AM emails. Wall Street did not see 30,000 people. They saw the margin.

Amazon laid off 30,000 since October. Filed thousands of H-1B petitions in the same window. This is not one company. This is the operating model.

Fire the salary. Keep the role. Fill it with someone whose legal right to remain in the country depends on your continued sponsorship. Pay them less. They will not complain. They cannot.

One employee's father worked at Oracle for 20 years. No phone call. No meeting. An email at 6 AM and a locked laptop.

The role is still open.

The people we fired are free. The people we hired are not.

[Andrew Dennis @madald2]

@perryodontology @DIGICELJamaica This exact scenario is what drove me to Starlink.

[Andrew Dennis @madald2]

@gourzini I’ve been thinking about YT Premium for a while now.

[Andrew Dennis @madald2]

@fleekyonthebeat The ribs were delicious

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@xodee876 Preach!

[Andrew Dennis @madald2]

@mikey_esquire #BringBackNigel

[Andrew Dennis @madald2]

Wow……just wow.

[Adam Schefter @AdamSchefter]

Bill Belichick, the 8-time Super Bowl-winning HC, is not a first-ballot Hall of Famer, per @SethWickersham and @DVNJr. Belichick fell short of the 40 out of 50 votes needed for induction to the Pro Football Hall of Fame in his first year of eligibility.

https://t.co/ooJutI0C0Q

[Manly Mentor @manly_mentor]

Men,
If you don't want your sons to struggle in the future, tell him these hard things today ‼️‼️

[Andrew Dennis @madald2]

@blurayangel I’m glad to see Steve back!

[Andrew Dennis @madald2]

Just to wrap this up. @DIGICELJamaica also called on Wednesday to, yes you got it, tell me the technician won’t be able to make it until Thursday. DWL. That’s 3 straight postponements…..anyway, I got a @Starlink, closed my Digicel account and I am happy about it.

[Andrew Dennis @madald2]

So to make matters worse, @DIGICELJamaica is lying!
They are now claiming that I called to postpone the technician visit to Wednesday! I did no such thing, I called them three times throughout Monday, while wasting the day waiting on them, and each time they claimed the technician was on his/her way!

[Andrew Dennis @madald2]

@Dee876ix @DIGICELJamaica Change provider, trust me, you won’t regret it. Look towards the stars.

[Andrew Dennis @madald2]

@_kingxxchris @DIGICELJamaica Good luck with that, they tied me out so long that I got another provider.