How are you going to find another blue chip tech job in nashville? If oracle is the only big tech employer in the area, when they tell you to jump you ask how high. The tech job market in the bay area is not amazing right now but if I got laid off tomorrow, I could walk across the street and be making 80% of what I am right now before my 2 weeks severance ran out. If Oracle lays you off it's an emergency; you have to sell your house and move back to california or some other tech hub, likely 1000+ mil
Setting aside the lack of remote work problem, which is internal to Oracle itself, Nashville has issues which IMO could make it unattractive to move to:
- It's already a tourist magnet, so any of the music or other "entertainment venues" are often swarmed with clueless out-of-town tourists and the inevitable roving gangs of drunken Woo-Girls. - Housing prices in the city itself are outrageous, and not getting better. Recent reappraisals are going to end up driving people out of their now super-expensive homes
Tennessee also has rather poor worker protection laws. Likely why Oracle is moving there.
Given the way things are going right now, worker protections seem to be an benefit now rather than picking up a job in a state that won't do a thing other than side with the company.
How are you going to find another blue chip tech job in nashville? If oracle is the only big tech employer in the area, when they tell you to jump you ask how high. The tech job market in the bay area is not amazing right now but if I got laid off tomorrow, I could walk across the street and be making 80% of what I am right now before my 2 weeks severance ran out.
If Oracle lays you off it's an emergency; you have to sell your house and move back to california or some other tech hub, likely 1000+ mil
Setting aside the lack of remote work problem, which is internal to Oracle itself, Nashville has issues which IMO could make it unattractive to move to:
- It's already a tourist magnet, so any of the music or other "entertainment venues" are often swarmed with clueless out-of-town tourists and the inevitable roving gangs of drunken Woo-Girls.
- Housing prices in the city itself are outrageous, and not getting better. Recent reappraisals are going to end up driving people out of their now super-expensive homes
It could also be that tech workers don't really want to relocate to a red state. Maybe women want reproductive freedom [techcrunch.com]. Maybe LGBT workers don't want to be hassled. Maybe most tech workers aren't aligned with red-state politics [fortune.com].
they are telling us that AI is going to replace us all, the future is 'agentic' and there's no stopping progress
also corporate: we want you back in the office 100%.
they are psychopaths.
Tennessee also has rather poor worker protection laws. Likely why Oracle is moving there.
Given the way things are going right now, worker protections seem to be an benefit now rather than picking up a job in a state that won't do a thing other than side with the company.