'Everyone’s a Line On a Spreadsheet:' Inside Oracle’s Mass Layoffs and the Workers Fighting Back

Summary: Oracle's AI Pivot: Firing Patients to Fund Servers

Storyboard:

• Panel 1: Oracle CTO Larry Ellison celebrates a $400 billion market cap and a massive AI infrastructure boom, briefly becoming the richest man in the world.
• Panel 2: Meanwhile, a 30-year employee gets fired over the phone while driving to the hospital for an overdue back surgery, instantly losing her ability to pay for prescriptions.
• Panel 3: Pregnant women, cancer patients, and workers on mental health leave suddenly lose their medical benefits mid-month so the company can afford more data centers.
• Panel 4: The ultimate betrayal—before losing their healthcare, these workers were forced to train the very AI chatbots that replaced them.

Kicker: Train your replacement. Lose your healthcare.