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There are layoffs every month. There is a whole crowd of people who's last day is next Tuesday February 10. IThey started working on the big wave list for March in November. It is just going to continue Alvind and the book cooker Crapenaw are incapable of anything else. Look at the "goodwill" on the books over 67 billion that's just make believe $$
@x0 can’t tell if you’re being sarcastic or honestly don’t know how this works….
Revenue grew an anemic 6-8% in 2025. Terrible vs the big boys like Amazon, Google, MSFT etc etc. $61,000,000,000+ in debt too.
No RA earnings were too good!
What has IBM done for at least the past 10+ years?
Two layoffs every year. IBM is not about to change this, especially not when the Execs have told Wall Street that the FCF will be 1 billion more in 2026 than in 2025.
Everyone should be bracing for the worst and be ready. If you have not understood that by now, you are a total id--t, sorry to say!
So, have a plan because you may be next.
Working as a Adv Solutions Engineer is such a chill job. Only attend meetings and no work lol
@my: Are you a manager ? Or, an executive ? Most likely .... a manager .....
Same for me... I have never worked so little and got paid so much.
I will enjoy it until it stops.
I’m just enjoying my regular paychecks and vacationing often with bare minimum work lol.
Are there any news about layoffs in the U.S? I haven't heard anything for months now and my work and Manager seems to be chill tbh
To speak frankly, the non-technical team that I was on had people who did nothing all day. One of them would go meeting to meeting, sharing what they learned in the previous meeting, instead of just using Slack. That was a core part of their "job" -- going to meetings and sharing what they learned in another meeting. LOL.
Sorry I know it's important to have a job and corporations are mostly evil, but there were some of the worst people that I have ever worked with who worked at IBM. And they were bringing down the company for others.
@gn don't Alvind and Krabanaugh deserve to to pushed out too ? The upcoming results will tell us everything we need to know about their future at IBM.
@j4 isn’t the difference that the layoff you get severance and for job applications you don’t have to say you were fired for “cause” but laid off due to lack of work
@j2 there is no difference really
Or if they will just call it firing like they normally do with people on pips ?
This time around, I wonder if they'll give 3month severance pay and 1 month notice as occurred in the November early December 2025 layoffs.
@gn
It sounds like you are the weakest link.
We are going to have to vote you off civilization.
Bye-bye.
If you get let go you deserved it. All the ones let go last November deserved it
IBM will announce its earning on January 28, 2026 and will surely reference some "restructuring expenses".
Anyone can join the Earnings call, here's the weblink https://www.ibm.com/investor/events/earnings-4q25
@ae My manager has stopped smiling lately and avoiding eye contact - should I be worried?
@ae
There were manager and department meetings last week
Yes. IBM is still operating.
@ab
she didn't engineer anything, she doesn't produce squat
engineers do that
the parasites on the top need to stop su-king up all the money
pay the people who actually produce something
and get out of the way
@a5
Correct—and your managers already know exactly who they are.
They’ll smile, look you straight in the eye, and lie to you, saying everything is fine.
Don’t believe it. Don’t trust it.
If anything feels even slightly off or odd, brace yourself—the hit is coming.
The day IBM goes ALL IN and lures Lisa Su away from AMD where she has been for 11 years and engineered perhaps 1 of the top 5 greatest comebacks in US history (stock increase of over 7,000%) I am selling all my retirement funds and buying (the new) IBM. Until then yuck NO not a single share!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I am hopeful perhaps she may be bored at AMD wondering "what else could I possibly do?".
And she worked at IBM and for a time was Gerstner's TA technical assistant.
Lets throw a $100,000,000 pay package to Lisa with performance based incentives and LIGHT THIS CANDLE! After all King Louie left IBM after 11 years with $400,000,000 and did 1/10th what Lisa has done.
@a4 Read it as - AI has reached a stage where there can be a return on investment by eliminating jobs .“You can truly start to automate tasks and business processes, [and the employees who perform these tasks and processes]”
When is Rob Thomas being handed a PIP now that AI has advanced so much?
Yes things are starting to move that will conclude in another round of layoffs
"Rob Thomas, IBM’s chief commercial officer, said AI has reached a stage where there can be a return on investment. “You can truly start to automate tasks and business processes,” he told Reuters."
https://www.dawn.com/news/1968783
Twisting RAs as "AI automation"?