Thread regarding IBM layoffs

Is anybody else dealing with this?

Is anyone else stuck in the same role even though you’re ki-ling it? My manager refuses to let me go because I make him look good. Every attempt at getting a promotion is blocked. How do you even begin to deal with this?

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Post ID: @OP+1jr7kcc8c

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If you look at those getting promotions, they are the ones that don’t focus on pleasing 1st line managers, but kiss-up to 2nd and primarily to 3rd line. All needed is to feed ideas to 3rd line about how growth / improvements can be achieved. Of course ego st-----g at the same time.

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Post ID: @h4+1jr7kcc8c

I was being sarcastic about that $175

For all the work I did completed tasks before the deadline and producing more as well at the many 14 hour days, weekends, phone calls at night and on my Honeymoon . I’m done

I am officially a free agent

Alvind Krabanaugh and the rest of the dipmunks fed like pigs while I burn myself out

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Post ID: @bc+1jr7kcc8c

getting a big promotion hinges as much on luck than it does on hard work and ability ... "visibility" (as utterly useless as that is to productivity) is also a huge factor at IBM

as others have said, look outside IBM ... any significant raise I've ever had has come from changing companies

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Post ID: @av+1jr7kcc8c

@an

you got $175 !

You were so lucky to get that - I'm a Band 10 DE and all I got was a miserly $1.75 before taxes as my GDP. You can't even buy a hamburger at McDonalds for that. I guess Alvind and miseryguts Krabanaugh will want me to pay them to work at IBM going forward or until the layoff notice arrives.

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Post ID: @at+1jr7kcc8c

Why wouldn’t anyone want to stay? What a beautiful GDP among I’m getting

I looked in success factors and it hits direct deposit tomorrow. $175 after taxes Yay !

Thank you Alvind and Krabanaugh

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Post ID: @an+1jr7kcc8c

Why don't you look outside the Big Blue dump for better opportunities ASAP ?

After all, you don't want to be part another layoff statistic, do you ?

Management at IBM are easily the worst among big companies in the tech industry. And it starts right at the top with Alvind and Krabanaugh. They wrote the book " IBM Layoffs for Dummies" !

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