What will Big Bleu do to counteract this impact to what has so far been their consistent stream of indentured servants? https://insights.dice.com/2019/11/04/ibm-h-1b-petitions-trump-restrictions/
AI’s Impact Will Extend to 100% of Jobs: IBM
More B.S. regarding the investment in re-training, etc. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2019-11-01/ai-s-impact-will-extend-to-100-of-jobs-ibm-video IBM Vice President of People and Culture Obed Louissaint discusses results of the MIT-IBM... — read more
No 3rd QTR GTS bonus...
So as a recent acquistion of IBM that was slotted into GTS, I received the notice that having missed our targets there would be no bonus for the quarter and it made me curious how frequently this has occurred to GTS in the recent past? How often are... — read more
The true Red Hatters who had been responsible for what IBM wanted, are leaving
And so it begins. Red Hat Culture is being destroyed from within. Leadership roles are being filled with yes people & top down managers from EMC, Net App, Cisco, HP, etc. The true Red Hatters who had been responsible for what IBM wanted, are... — read more
going off shore
as much work as possible is going off shore for all areas of the business. RAs are happening for xmas holiday season and into 1st qtr 2020. Division mgmt is a joke, they make these terrible deals to get a foot hold, loose millions on millions and... — read more
IBM Looks Beyond the College Degree
"The tech company is looking for different ways to fill “new-collar” jobs in its 360,000-employee workforce by adding digital badges and apprenticeships and deepening partnerships with community... — read more
Microsoft Cloud Growth: 59% IBM "Cloud" Growth: 6.4%
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-23/microsoft-sales-profit-top-estimates-on-cloud-azure-slows Microsoft is also starting from a much larger cloud base, and IBM's "cloud" number includes a bunch of legacy software that has nothing to... — read more
When is Ginni resigning, she's had 8 years of dismal results now.
All she did was announce losses - so, is it time for her to go? Long overdue?
IBM Stock Closes Down After a Downgrade. Will Red Hat’s ‘Contribution to Growth’ Slow?
$34B well spent! https://www.barrons.com/articles/ibm-stock-downgrade-neutral-legacy-businesses-red-hat-51571668644 IBM stock was falling Monday morning after an analyst at UBS said he sees less upside for the stock. The back story. IBM... — read more
Aside from Red Hat, Numbers were horrendous - nothing more to add.
We'll continue to try to shrink to profitability. Something that nobody pulled off before.
Has anybody seen this?
Can you say IBM? https://dilbert.com/strip/2019-10-13
IBM Analyst News
IBM board members are you honestly paying attention? Even Wall Street isn’t buying what Ginni is selling https://seekingalpha.com/news/3507283-ibm-minus-1_8-percent-ubs-hits-sidelines
IBM: Why yes, Red Hat is doing great. Thanks for asking. The rest of Big Blue? Sure, wait – someone's at the door...
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/10/17/ibm_q3_2019_financials/ Fantastic quarter: Sales, down. Profit, down. Business as usual
Apple CEO Tim Cook Begs for Mike Lee’s Green Card Giveaway to Big Tech
Last 2 paragraphs Others bankrolling Lee’s S. 386 are the outsourcing lobby, like Cognizant and the IBM Corporation. Cognizant and IBM have a total of seven lobbyists pushing the legislation. IBM and Cognizant are set to gain hugely from S. 386, as... — read more
IBM Stock Is Down After Reporting Solid Earnings, Mixed Sales
_He said the company’s outsourcing business—“Global Technology Services”—missed internal expectations for the quarter due to lower client business volumes in the United Kingdom and Germany._ So we know the unit that will be targeted for the majority... — read more
IBM Earnings Fall in Prolonged Sales Slump
As goes revenue, so goes headcount: (3.9%) YTY so we should expect the commensurate amount of headcount reduction, but undoubtedly Ginni will just make it a nice round 5% as the math is easier for the bean counters to... — read more
CNBC: IBM sinks on Q3 revenue miss
The Fast Money traders discuss IBM's decline in revenue. It's the fifth miss in a row, and it speaks to the broader story for IBM. https://apple.news/AFtPME0cAQi-JgI63sHCdMg
IBM Perks & Benefits
Insurance, Health & Wellness Health Insurance Dental Insurance Flexible Spending Account FSA Vision Insurance Health Savings Account HAS Life Insurance Supplemental Life Insurance Disability Insurance Occupational... — read more
IBM must produce documents said to show company scheme to lay off older workers
IBM must produce documents said to show company scheme to lay off older workers By Marjorie Johnson, J.D. The company argued that discovery should be limited to the RIF group that included the employee, but he claimed that the RIF group was a... — read more
Red Hat CFO departs company three months after IBM merger
Another one dives overboard. https://www.newsobserver.com/news/business/article236001743.html
IT Student Preferences 2019 Edition
This is per Business Insider, coverage of "World’s Most Attractive Employers 2019" (WMAE 2019) Source Study: https://universumglobal.com/wmae-2019/ PDF File: https://storage.pardot.com/13732/214935/WMAE_2019_ebook.pdf Universum, a research... — read more
Red Hat Kubernetes Kingpin Grant Shipley Jumps Ship To VMware
Abandon ship! https://www.crn.com/news/red-hat-kubernetes-kingpin-grant-shipley-jumps-ship-to-vmware
IBM Earnings +
If IBM bombs again with its earnings even after acquiring Red Hat, that should be a clear sign to the Board that Ginni needs to be kicked to the curb as CEO, President and Chairman! She's too stingy to give the former CEO from Red Hat, Jim... — read more
The 40 companies engineering and IT students around the world say they want to work for
IBM at #5? Seriously!?!? Big Bleu's P.R. machine must be working overtime to spread utopian stories of life at IBM to these naive Gen Z and Millenials... — read more
Why IBM is using A.I. to find jobs for people who don’t have a college degree
What about IBM using A.I. to find jobs for older, current employees as opposed to RA'g them? https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/03/why-ibm-is-using-ai-to-find-jobs-for-people-without-college-degree.html
Latest situation at the IBM HelpDesk for WPP in NYC
https://www.facebook.com/alliancemember/posts/1472154586255854
IBM certifies a much-needed 140 data scientists for AI development
Queen Ginni beknighted some "New Collar" data scientists! Guess a B.S./M.S./doctorate degree is clearly no longer needed to have "scientist" in your job... — read more
Everyone Has a Wealth Number. What’s Yours?
Notable for the person in the "Who" column that they chose to represent someone ranked at a "7". https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-09-30/everyone-has-a-wealth-number-what-s-yours
Digital Business Group (DBG) is only getting started with their co-location plans
[Raising from a comment: @VZzqzzM-56thy on a post that was posted almost a year ago]. I have it on very good authority that the Digital Business Group (DBG) is only getting started with their co-location plans. Security was the first. If you... — read more
People who say ‘follow your passion’ are already rich.
Don't listen to them... Just find what you’re good at and work hard at it...
Types of Layoffs
Quits: Employees who left voluntarily. Exception: retirements or transfers to other locations are reported with Other Separations. Layoffs & Discharges: Involuntary separations initiated by the employer, including: Layoffs with no intent to... — read more
Just a baby spinoff
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/ss-c-acquire-algorithmics-assets-200500267.html
Marketing needs to go!
Who else agrees with me? We can save money and maybe not have to lose some of our best engineers while literally losing nothing useful in the process (honestly, what's the last good campaign they came up with?). Any way you look at it, this would be... — read more
Judge blasts Big Blue for trying to wriggle out of revealing Operation Baccarat blueprints
IBM was ordered late on Friday to produce communications from CEO Ginni Rometty and other executives related to Operation Baccarat, the IT giant's alleged company-wide-plan to replace older workers with younger... — read more
Amazon Should Buy IBM (And End the AI Democratization Strategy)
This can't happen quickly enough. https://www.forbes.com/sites/steveandriole/2019/09/23/amazon-should-buy-ibm-and-end-the-ai-democratization-strategy/#1d622931f545
Golden company sues IBM for dumping toxic waste decades ago in Erie
More negative IBM news. https://www.coloradohometownweekly.com/2019/09/16/golden-company-sues-ibm-for-dumping-toxic-waste-decades-ago-in-erie/
IBM sues Zillow over multiple charges of patent infringement
Patent trolling is IBM's true moonshot. . . https://www.inman.com/2019/09/18/ibm-sues-zillow-over-multiple-charges-of-patent-infringement/