Jill, the technical writer, says that the AI tools she was mandated to use were Oracle’s internal chatbots (as opposed to ChatGPT or Claude), which would “create slop,” she says. “Our team was pretty frustrated daily that we were being told to use it, and it wasn’t saving any time, and was only eating up productivity.”
Another employee, who worked for healthcare tech company Cerner before Oracle acquired it in 2022, says that her team was encouraged to use AI following a round of layoffs in September. But she says that while AI was helpful to her job, Oracle’s productivity expectations increased even further, forcing her to work harder than she had ever before, leading to 60 to 80 hour workweeks.
During this time, she was also instructed to train AI systems on her work. While she was scared about the outcome of this training, she felt trapped in a catch-22. “We were training AI to replace us, but the AI is the only way we can get through our workload,” she says. “You’re behind on all your deadlines, and your hand is forced.”
