Thread regarding IBM layoffs

Hi id @1dju+18HCiOqc
Did you use Checkpoint before you left? It makes PBC look good. It is mostly some make-work you need to dream up to satisfy your manager. It is all window dressing.

This is a very self-serving article. I worked for IBM for many, many years, most recently as an executive. While we went through many HR processes, I never really saw any of them benefit employees, in terms of helping them advance their careers. Rather, you need to be your own best advocate and maniacal about your own skill development. When I read Ginny’s farewell note to IBMers, it made me sad, as it demonstrated how out of touch she is with the market and her contribution to IBM’s lack of success. While I was inspired by her annual ‘pep-talks’, the day to day reality didn’t measure up. Leaders need to inspire and then translate their vision into daily actions. Rather, employees experienced a ‘beat and berate’ culture with no executive or HR leadership to be found. I wish my former IBM colleagues every success, but fear for the company in terms of its ability to be successful in an ever changing landscape.

IBM used to be about providing the highest quality products and services and never laying people off

Now it's leverage borrowing, k–ling business units and focusing on the cheapest business model with the most leverage possible.

The fact is that most of their AI has failed to realize vision. And they are also not leaders in cloud which is sadly a rehash of 1970s mainframe timesharing only cheap and unreliable.

Sadly I find it hard to find any good left in today's IBM.

As an IBMer, every one of those initiatives is counterproductive for me - a waste of time that gets in the way of actual work.

IBM HR manages to the lowest common denominator. That means mediocre performance at best. If you are in the top 20% of IBM, the FANGS have already or are actively poaching you. Congrats IBM HR, you continue to focus inwardly never bothering to ask “why are my most talented folks leaving” Could it be you don’t value them? NAH our AI says that’s not true. They must just be disgruntled

Well, that's a steaming pile of fetid dingoes' kidneys if ever I saw one.

"agile performance management" was yet another name for "your manager already decided your rating, now they just have to reverse-engineer it into tool. Not that matters because nobody is getting raises or bonuses this year anyway."

"AI-based" anything is more proof that AIs are terrible at anything involving people, that the current generation of AI developers don't understand how to evaluate any of the things that are important about people beyond the most mechanical of tasks. As for "market based" pay... don't even start.

I readily believe that IBM is monitoring all our communications, I very much doubt that the primary reason is to spot harassment. By "employee issues" I assume they mean people speaking up about how bad IBM's people management is.

Blue Pages, I think we can all agree, is no Facebook. It's not even a second-rate Facebook. Heck, it's not even a second-rate LinkedIn. I'm not sure if the author meant Connections but if so... well, we all know how that worked out.

I don't have any reason to question that IBM's HR team includes all those able and talented people listed. The question is, why? Because whatever they are doing, it's certainly not showing up in our HR processes and systems anywhere...