Anyone watching this forum in US Expert Labs (not Expertise Connect)? If yes: how busy are you staying this year? What type of engagement(s) are you on (short or long term)? What's your utilization to date? Are you back on the road or... — read more 

Those who were RAd at one time, I wonder if you had any clues that you would soon be out of a job. Were there any red flags? I ask because earlier I heard from one person that she was RAd, even though she firmly believed that she was safe, and even... — read more 

Last December I ended up in a group that I don't like (my team was dismantled) so I finished the half and requested a transfer. My FLM was fired last month and apparently he didn't tell anyone I was looking to leave so now my transfer is being block... — read more 

Responding to @OP+1igzJkmH. I feel everyone might find this useful, so I am placing here. As someone who knows this in excruciating detail, you take what I am about to tell you as gospel. Given I don’t know what your band is or job type, here... — read more 

Selling off GBS would be the death knell for IBM They are the guys who recommend Redhat, AI, and application modernization of the legacy (AK’s only strategy) Can IBM slim down GBS where they don’t act as a catalyst ABSOLUTELY, but selling them is not... — read more 

If you are RA today please give us details.

I am a 64 years old, 20 year IBM veteran, consistently with positive rating. Out of the blue my manager called to inform me that my services are no longer needed. 1 minute later I get an email with the severance details (lending me to believe this... — read more 

If you expect to be laid off on August 18th, or learn that you are on or after that date, please provide details. People get indignant about this type of post meanwhile this was the original intent of this entire website (reporting of layoffs, not... — read more 

Some say it's worth it, and some say it's a short cut to being pushed out of the company with almost no chance of surviving it.

IBM has settled the age-discrimination case brought against it by the widow of a sales executives who took his own life after being laid off. Denise Lohnn and Big Blue reached a tentative agreement on March 31, and US District Judge Lewis Liman... — read more 

https://www.reuters.com/business/sustainable-business/caste-california-tech-giants-confront-ancient-indian-hierarchy-2022-08-15/ "Elsewhere in tech, IBM told Reuters that it added caste, which was already in India-specific policies, to its global... — read more 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PurifyPlus

I have not heard from them in a while. Are they doing good? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pure_Software

If you got RA today. Please let us know country, division etc.

IF you got RA today, please list country and division.

A Houston federal judge awarded BMC Software Inc over $21 million in attorneys' fees and other litigation costs from International Business Machines Corp on Monday, months after BMC won $1.6 billion from the tech company in a dispute over mainframe... — read more 

If you're worried about being laid off, then do something about it. Too many people I know are constantly worried about possible layoffs but are doing nothing to prepare and make their situation better. People need to sit down, look at their options... — read more 

Are you on a toxic team? I am about to quit as my mgr is a passive agressive clown with no real tech bacground and no mentorship skills at all. The rest of the team licks boots - everyone lines up and follow this clown. People are funny and sad at... — read more 

I resigned for a new opportunity, basically got a don't let the door hit ya, which hey 18 years, fine. They then tell the client, Oh, we tried so hard to keep him. WTF? Client called me, told them they lied to you, now they are asking me what... — read more 

IF you got RA today, please list country and division.

So the 2H mandate is Cost control above all else. Green dollars are the focus, but even blue dollars are under scrutiny. In Data and AI and Automation, new GM - Dinesh, and now a new VP of PM - Tarun from systems. The old VP of PM, Gilfix was from... — read more 

Today IBM terminated all the people working on a certain project after telling them they wouldn’t do that until December. What a load of cr-p

Like The Deceivers (film) i watched before, starring Pierce Brosnan. The usual suspects: GR, AK... international bullsh-t maniac

The leadership has been working so hard to get rid of older employees - something that's been proven again and again but sadly with no consequences for them - that it's not safe anymore to think you'll be able to retire without issues even if you... — read more 

My subjective impression is that IBM can hardly have a worse reputation than it already has. I know people who have lost their jobs, but they don't think of IBM as an option at all, because they think that this company tends to obfuscate and... — read more 

IBM's board of directors has started an investigation into claims that its sales numbers were manipulated, leading to executives securing big bonuses. If the board fails to take any action, it may face a lawsuit to claw back millions of dollars from... — read more 

They were supposed to close on 1 Madison Ave. A few floors and consolidate most of NY offices into one building.

Apparently, more than 32,000 workers in the U.S. tech sector have been laid off in mass job cuts so far this year. I'm kind of shocked that we're not included in that number yet but I have no doubts that our time will come sometime soon. I'm just... — read more 

https://youtu.be/m53H0pO2FD4

Please dissolve IBM and prosecute all the thieves involved past and present

They’re asking me to join their alumni network. Why would I join the alumni network of this cr----r?

I hope I won't be put on PIP. What do you think, what percentage of employees who are placed on PIP actually survive them? Is it even worth making extra efforts to try to save the job, given that impossible goals serve to make it easier for IBM to... — read more 

Anyone got RA today? Or have been put on a PIP?

IBM published the official numbers yesterday 1,065 sale price 230 million booked profit 75 million health care loss 1,065 - 230 - 75 = 760 million of stranded costs https://www.theregister.com/2022/07/26/ibm_watson_health_profit/

While big blue had some positive aspects to the quarter, investors were disappointed overall. The stock fell over 8% after earnings and looks like it could take out 2022 lows on any market weakness. No point in even capitalizing "big... — read more 

Hi all Current employee in consulting Want to share messages I received from my top leadership today (July 26) which is already in effect for Q3: Hiring freezes (no new employees and possible offers being rescinded) Contractors being reconsidered... — read more 

This is why: IBM doesn't need to RA anymore... people are leaving in droves on their own to better jobs. Most development teams at IBM are suffering major losses in personnel which means product deliverables are getting delayed and impacted. The... — read more 

https://www.forbes.com/sites/stevedenning/2022/07/25/how-ibm-could-become-a-digital-winner/

I think that says more about the current state of the company than anything else could.