I was finishing a project way ahead of time as usual. What did that arrogant Son of a Biscuit say ?

https://www.entrepreneur.com/en-in/news-and-trends/ibm-launches-agentic-ai-innovation-center-in-bengaluru-to/494698

God if I hear another IBM person spout that nonsense of failure and giving up! Did Steve Jobs give us half hearted "progress junk"? NO! He was passionate about being the best of the best when MP3 players where everywhere and the iPod came out with... — read more 

The death knell has tolled. https://www.insidermonkey.com/blog/jim-cramer-on-international-business-machines-i-like-ibm-very-much-1568452/ Published on July 14, 2025 at 2:46 pm by Syeda Seirut Javed in News

Buy something nice for your spouse. Well as nice as possible. This is like any other points program: the operators are counting on you to slowly forget that you have them. If you are retired (as I am) it becomes easier every day to forget ... — read more 

Has anyone started to see layoffs in the consulting group? If you are not near or planned to be near full utilization you will be laid off very soon.

The e-mail went out to RTP employees saying everyone is 'consolidating' to the small 500 complex. This sounds like they are either selling off the main campus or shutting it down. Either way this doesn't sound good at all. Anyone have more... — read more 

Will probably hear him vomit up about the Watson Ex Lax Challenge. He will be his usual petulant obnoxious self when he answers questions We all know Alvind does not like to answer questions that are not kissing up to him. Of course he will... — read more 

Article is dated May 12, 2025 so that last building is probably down by now. https://wnbf.com/ibm-endicott-demolition-one-building-remains/

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/darrell-d-e-long_rip-ibm-almaden-research-center-i-heard-activity-7346364227693027329-JMm2/

You know things are spiralling when they lower utilization in order to have more people in sales roles. What happened to all these Band D and above leaders? Finding your own project work is like shopping Dice for contract roles. Waiting for the... — read more 

OMG. You cannot make this stuff up. During the live Power11 reveal today in Germany, they tried to reveal a Power11 rack by spinning it around from being hidden...Tick tick tick tick. NOTHING for like 30 seconds. Finally it kind of stumbles and... — read more 

For your amusement. In 2016, Wired magazine selected Arvind as “one of 25 geniuses who are creating the future of business” for his foundational work on blockchain. Seems long overdue to change the date to 2022 and "blockchain" buzzword... — read more 

Looks like Jeanine Sneed is being moved to another position from her GM role, Kelly Jessop (VP TEL) is leaving IBM… looks like Rob Thomas is doing a purge… Any comments?

Anyone participating in this yearly piece of garbage ? I am so effin swamped I refuse to join a team. To be honest , Watson Ex Lax is a giant piece of trash

Any EMEA layoffs? US layoffs are well represented in the media, but I don’t see the same for EMEA despite seeing significant layoff numbers.

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https://www.bizjournals.com/dallas/news/2025/07/03/ibm-layoffs-close-coppell-office.html By: Sydney Asher – Staff Writer, Dallas Business Journal Jul 3, 2025 | Updated Jul 3, 2025 3:34pm CDT IBM Corp. is closing an office in Coppell and laying... — read more 

Already lining-up the excuses to blame the clients when the overhyped, oversold AI payoff doesn't payoff. https://www.rediff.com/business/report/tech-ibm-can-realise-roi-on-ai-within-24-months-if/20250627.htm

That’s Right Gelatinous Jim Krabanaughs waistline is expanding quicker than the stock price He needs to join a gym Alvind is gaining weight too

Who would buy? Softlayer, hcl, Franciscan Partners

Meetings are efficient, management isn’t toxic, and things actually get done. I didn’t realize how bad things were until I escaped. If you’re miserable, start looking. Better workplaces exist!

Already losing steam. https://www.marketbeat.com/originals/forget-ibm-accentures-ai-momentum-is-your-next-buy/

Anyone have experience of using attorneys to review and negotiate IBM RA package any good attorney references and their typical charges to negotiate the package based on age and similar skillsets being advertised internally for openings in other... — read more 

Has any employee from IBM challenged an RA (non performance based) and got it reversed based on unfair criteria being used to put people on RA . Can manager get an exception based on business need to reverse RA in such a case . what does it take for... — read more 

[4 minute video]. https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x9lyk3i Jonathan Adashek, the SVP of marketing and communications at IBM, talks AI marketing.

We had a potluck for ex-colleagues yesterday. So our plans initially called for about 20 which soon became 40 plus. Then only 18 showed up. One of the biggest takeaways is only two among the invitees laid off that are older than 50 landed a new gig... — read more 

Good. https://aflegal.org/america-first-legal-files-third-lawsuit-against-ibm-for-illegal-and-pervasive-dei-driven-discrimination-against-older-white-men/ June 25, 2025

$325? https://www.theglobeandmail.com/investing/markets/stocks/IBM/pressreleases/32988006/ibm-stock-is-an-ai-winner-says-wedbush-analyst-dan-ives/ Tipranks - Sat Jun 21, 2:08PM CDT Tech giant IBM (IBM) continues to win praise on Wall Street as... — read more 

"These 'agents' are branded to sound like intelligent lifeforms that can make intelligent decisions," Zitron writes, "but are really just trumped-up automations that require enterprise customers to invest time programming... — read more 

A former colleague of mine went offline for a few weeks. I contacted his brother and found out he had an aneurysm from layoff related stress. Their suspicion is stress caused an increase in blood pressure which lead to his brain aneurysm.

Senior leaders being asked to identify final list for a July round in Consulting Americas this week

Just saw this in LinkedIn. https://www.linkedin.com/posts/katepwoolley_recently-i-made-the-difficult-decision-to-activity-7340909474070638592-ihVX/ I was never impressed in anything she had to say. Seemed like pre scripted puffery and nothingness... — read more 

create better career opportunities for b10... as someone who's been in the game a long time, it's super unclear how goals are actualy tracked or how targets get assigned. I can sell over 10 million in new business year after year and somehow still... — read more 

Many of us are looking forward to it. Pay me to leave this misery. I'll happily accept.

Country?

Just got the email. He said he has a “Client Meeting”

Everyone knows that AK Barnum is hyping Quantum like a 1890s snake oil salesman at the carnival sideshow to try and unrealistically inflate the stock price https://seekingalpha.com/article/4794079-ibm-double-hype The key investor takeaway is that... — read more 

KA-CHINGGG!! https://www.investopedia.com/ibm-stock-hits-all-time-high-as-firm-touts-roadmap-to-quantum-computing-breakthrough-11751847 By: Andrew Kessel Published June 10, 2025 04:31 PM EDT

Hahaha Research and Alvind are desperate to show something. So they are good ar PR hype using smoke and mirrors. Now IBM has solved the quantum errors with an error correcting quantum cloud. Of course you need wait til 2028 hahaha... oh and by the... — read more