Laid-off Oracle workers tried to negotiate better severance. Oracle said no.

Fri, 08 May 2026 22:59:05 +0000

Originally published by TechCrunch

As was widely reported, Oracleaxed an estimated 20,000 to 30,000 peoplevia email on March 31.

One of the employees cut that day told TechCrunch about the experience: “I had, like, this weird feeling in my stomach. I went to go sign into the VPN, and the VPN was like, ‘this user doesn’t exist anymore.’ Then I called my friend, and I was like, ‘Hey, can you see me in Slack?’ And she said, ‘No, your account’s been deactivated.’”

San Francisco’s housing market has lost its mind

Fri, 08 May 2026 22:32:31 +0000

Originally published by TechCrunch

San Francisco real estate has never been very accessible. But the record sales happening right now in the city’s high-end market are testing the upper limits of what even this famously unaffordable city thought was possible.

Consider a six-bedroom, 5,700-square-foot home in Cow Hollow, one of San Francisco’s most coveted neighborhoods. It was listed two weeks ago at $7.95 million, so, not cheap. It just sold for $15 million. The sellers, who bought the property for $7.8 million in the summer of 2020 as the pandemic was pushing residents out of cities, nearly doubled their money in under six years.

Tc on Cowlpane

Laid-off Oracle workers tried to negotiate better severance. Oracle said no.

San Francisco’s housing market has lost its mind