Thread regarding IBM layoffs

@z7 Again -this is the work environment Huiming and his lackeys created, cultivated and reinforced for well over a decade. The only real surprise is that it took this long for people to reach their breaking point. The younger workforce increasingly appears unwilling to tolerate the institutionalized dysfunction that has become entrenched in Albany. The site only benefits a select few. Come to Albany if you want to work hard, follow the rules, and deliver results only to watch your contributions get appropriated by one of the anointed favorites. It’s a culture that ultimately drives away the very people responsible for producing the results.

@11k
“planned reduction in force (RA) scheduled for next month”???

As in November? What do you know?

@z7 Indeed, at the current rate of attrition, the organization may well find that the planned reduction in force (RA) scheduled for next month is no longer necessary. The workforce appears to be contracting organically at a pace that could render further involuntary reductions unnecessary.

@hs People are leaving both IBM and Anderon in droves at the Albany site, much to the astonishment of those who have long been favored by the system. These individuals seem genuinely stunned that anyone would choose to leave, apparently unable or unwilling to recognize the conditions that have driven so many people away.

The reality is that employees are increasingly fed up with a system that rewards a select few while relying on the hard work, expertise, and contributions of others. They are tired of a workplace culture that, in their view, has been shaped for well over a decade by the same small circle of influential leaders. Within this environment, certain individuals are anointed for advancement and recognition, while others carry the burden of execution. Some appear to receive disproportionate credit for minimal contributions, while legitimate concerns about the appropriation of others’ work and the misattribution of intellectual contributions persist.

Perhaps most troubling is the disconnect between IBM’s formally documented policies and procedures and the way the organization actually operates. Employees can follow every prescribed process precisely, comply with every stated requirement, and do everything by the book, yet still find that the outcome is determined by factors unrelated to merit, performance, or procedural compliance.

This raises a fundamental question about institutional integrity: What is the value of documented rules and established protocols if they are not consistently enforced? When official procedures become little more than a façade, employees inevitably learn that the written rules are not the rules that truly govern their careers. Instead, an informal system of influence, favoritism, and selective accountability takes precedence.

The deeper problem is not simply that people are leaving. It is that those who benefit from the existing system appear incapable of understanding why others no longer wish to participate in it. When an organization consistently rewards proximity to power over genuine contribution, it should not be surprised when the people who do the work eventually decide that their expertise, integrity, and future are better served elsewhere.

@mn it’s their MO. There is no problem - you are the problem. It’s how they retain power and control over leadership positions

"why would someone who doesn’t work for ibm even read this board? " Because I'm an investor.

@hs he is not a decent man

Many on this post want to accredit Huiming.

Because I care, IBM accumulated very many people working in the company for 35-40 years, that is abnormal, because they already have children and grand children, and we understand that all those people have not done anything significant for their last 25-30 years because long time ago they tired to work and only what they did collecting their paychecks, say, for an average single IBM employer IBM for all their happiness of doing nothing lost (100,000 x 12 x 27.5 = 15,000,300.000 ) for 15 years + 10 people doing nothing ( and I witnessed 10 people around me ) that amounts to 150 millions, and I'm sure that not only me who sees this picture but others, so it to take 10 teams at IBM ( only 100 people ) IBM looses 15 billions on people doing nothing, with the current state of the world economy and when the global south is prevailing that is enormous amount of money enough to give work to thousands of Indian and Chinese people.

@hc why would someone who doesn’t work for ibm even read this board? By your own logic you don’t work for ibm

Such negative and toxic people are everywhere, and they think they are immortal, but they are not. We had such toxic people at Intel but that was understandable. Why, because they were German ( West ) origin and hated all other people. What I suggest to find the person who posted this post and fire he/she from IBM if he/she is still there. Again, I'm 100% sure that the author of this post is no longer with IBM and we do not need to spend time to pay attention to this post. 100% of IBM people never read "IBM layoffs".

@g5 yup I can’t wait until saying red hat and the red fedoras are informally banned internally. It will be interesting to see the biggest red hat cheerleaders and brown nosers change their tune fast. All of sudden it will be red who? We all know this type of person but red hat is stock full of them!

@h5 that’s very presumptuous of you to make such assumptions

"Thanks for Everything. Now Please Disappear. Don’t Let the Door Hit You on Your Way Out!" That is a very rude post, the person who put it here is very negative and toxic, he/she accumulated all negative energy in the world and think will live forever, if he/she is still in IBM it is a very dangerous and disturbing sign, but I feel he/she is no longer with IBM and that is why we see the post on this board and feel frustration, it is good that IBM did get rid of this he or she because such people should not be in the company with 100+ years of history, please get lost.

@OP correct it’s sad to see but Red Hat is officially dead.

@dq+1m3v672w2
Are you kidding? Huiming is thrilled and elated to finally get rid of all of the Anderon people off his books. Just like that out with the trash - overnight they no longer his problem. Just watch how quickly they go from “critical talent” and “valued contributors” to people who suddenly aren’t his problem anymore like they never existed. Second class citizens overnight. Once they’re off the payroll, I’m sure the amnesia will kick in almost immediately. Ghosting, Cold shoulder and couple less problems for him to deal with and a huge sigh of relief. I bet he hopes all their careers are over. It’s just type of guy he really is.

@cf Huiming’s leadership and decisions have failed that site and the people who depended on it. Please don’t let this be forgotten as time passes. People should remember what happened, who was responsible, and the consequences of those decisions. Don’t let it get brushed up the rug.

https://www.reddit.com/r/IBM_Employees/s/304S4oQqj3

@OP I love this post. Everyone who works for IBM: do yourself a favor and read it every day while in their employ. Then, when you're canned (via PIP or RA or plain firing), and you will be canned, you'll know that it's only business. And afterward, you can just pi-s off.

Does Anderon have to pay ibm for research now?

@OP

Wasn’t Anderon just formed up just to be sold and acquired by GF? Wasn’t that the plan?

Similar to how GF spun off Avera and it was later acquired by Marvell?

Trash Thursdays

@c8 well there's hardly anyone left in the United States; only a matter of time before this Ouroboros eats its own tail in India.

@bz In Banglore, Khatmandu and other places in India. IBM is starting to revert the trend.

Did layoff happen today? Where?

@b9
Today, October 1st, is the last day for:

• Red Hat
• Nordcloud
• IBM Research people who were jettisoned to Anderon

I am sure there is many more people and areas impacted today that I am missing from this list. Probably there is others also that we do not know yet. It is difficult to keep track of everybody who is being impacted.

Did I miss something? Were there RAs today?