Topics regarding layoffs at IBM

Topics regarding layoffs at IBM

Dear Friend

And for years you saw IBMer after IBMer let go. Did you join the union. No. Did you write your congressman. No. Did you think it would evenhappen to you. No. You worked for a greedy lying company that has betrayed the US citizens. Now you know it can... — read more 

Major Troubles with Analytics

Cringely's at it again, this time he's after Analytics Source: http://www.cringely.com/2016/05/23/the-problem-with-analytics The Problem With Analytics There is a difference between knowledge and understanding. Knowledge typically comes down to... — read more 

IBM - Incontinent Business Machines

Yes, I do believe "Incontinent Business Machines" is the proper name going forward as IBM loves to dump it's employees and to dump on the employees and it's customers. Fact: Layoffs have left IBM accounts with little and in some cases, no system... — read more 

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From The UK

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/05/23/ding_ding_ibm_rings_bell_for_round_two_of_job_cuts_at_gts/

Another smoke screen ?

http://money.cnn.com/2016/05/23/technology/ibm-jobs/index.html?iid=hp-toplead-dom

IBM Mention In Article

http://valleypatriot.com/h-1b-foreign-workers-are-destroying-merrimack-valley-economy/

Posted on Glassdoor

Aimless, scattered, hostile Pros There's only one benefit when working with IBM - work from home. And that makes it all worthwhile for many. Unfortunately, they know this, and hold you and your family hostage with low salary, no pay raises... — read more 

Heartless, disloyal, disgusting people at the top

I was dumped last summer. 63 yrs old... 20+ yrs of service... No 'real' pension ( lost that when the rules changed in 1999) nothing matters to them! Everyone let go in the past two decades were top performers. We gave our heart to the company. Age... — read more 

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My father's lay off.

I just received a call today from my mother telling me that IBM laid off my father after 36 years of donating his blood sweat and tears to these scumbags. All they did to this poor man over time is screw him, and screw him some more. First they cut... — read more 

When Posting on This and Other Forums Please...

Please follow all IBM BCGs (Business Conduct Guidelines) and all IBM SCGs (Social Computing Guidelines), even if you are not an employee of the company. The IBM PR team will be enforcing these guidelines to ensure the postings have appropriate and... — read more 

RA is coming

Watching IBM is reporting that managers took training today on next round of layoffs. It will happen in the next couple of weeks. Anyone have details? Sent to Watching IBM: Hearing that managers had to take a course today for the next RA. This was in... — read more 

Advice

I am not happy where I'm at, either personally or professionally... (I think that) If I could solve either of these issues, the other would become tolerable. Here's a bit of background: I moved to a new location in the US after college and have been... — read more 

Barron's calls BS on IBM's Cloud

It's all a bunch of fraudulent marketing and financial engineering (the only kind of engineering going no at IBM today, sadly) http://blogs.barrons.com/techtraderdaily/2016/05/11/ibm-will-never-catch-amazon-microsoft-in-cloud-says-deutsche/

Careful Now - IBM Can Sue Even Employees

This is nuts boys... IBM Sues Ex-Sales Head (Cloud), Seeks $500K Global sales head Louis Attanasio accused of taking secrets. IBM filed a lawsuit on Monday accusing a long-time senior executive of stealing corporate secrets related to its cloud... — read more 

What's going on with the IBM hiring freeze?

I applied for a UK Up2Grad role after spending 2014/15 working for IBM (loved it), and got to the role matching within the business stage in ~October 2015. Not long after that, the whole hiring freeze business starts, and my application has been on... — read more 

Growth

It's not all that dismal as posters here want you to believe. There's lots of large projects going on at IBM at any time, and most are quickly announced. Watson, Blockchain, OpenWhisk, and Bluemix are all large publicly known initiatives going on... — read more 

Cloud #Fail @IBM

IBM had massive, world-wide outages in their cloud platform on April 28 and 29. Both were unrelated to each other. They were screwups of simple things like DNS and network config. The failover config that is supposed to provide high availability and... — read more 

IBM's Death Spiral Has Begun

I'm in middleware/software, but on the cloud side of that (getting the legacy products to SaaS). There has definitely been a change over the last year, and more so every month really. Everything just seems to be in decline. There used to be a lot of... — read more 

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Cloud Foes

I'm in Cloud, so maybe it's specific to our org, but does anyone else think something very weird is going on? The clarity in strategy and direction this year has been especially confusing and incoherent, in my opinion. This is really bad, I know... — read more 

Upwork

Been looking for some extra income - there are some opportunities on Upwork or externally (one of them would make me a contractor for Microsoft)... Anyhow, does that conflict with our IBM contract as a salaried employee? It's not coding or anything... — read more 

Are Tech Giants Really Making Money on the Cloud?

http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2016-05-03/are-tech-giants-really-making-money-on-the-cloud "IBM, by contrast, lumps so many different businesses into its "Technology Services & Cloud Platforms" segment -- it even includes some hardware sales... — read more 

Does IBM offer remote entry level work?

I work for IBM in NY and have a brother who is attempting to stay local to a southern state for his spouse (not Texas or SC) and I'm trying desperately to help him get a job. I think of the people I talk to on support lines... He could easily do that... — read more 

IBM Buffalo is Hiring 500 Resources

It's not all bad news guys... IBM’s Innovation Center taking shape in downtown Buffalo... Innovation Center takes shape in Key Center; 500 workers to be hired... You can see more details here:... — read more 

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