Thread regarding IBM layoffs

@b1 d-mbest comment here. You must be from India.

Were all of you people concerned about white people being discriminated against via DEI type policies just as concerned that black people in particular were held back from even applying for certain jobs for decades in this country? Now you are getting a little taste of what it feels like to not be on that top rung and you can't take it. Instead you accuse people of color of not truly earning the job that they have instead of taking accountability for the poor choices you have made in life. Also, as a reminder, DEI covered veterans, the disabled, and all women (most of whom are white).

@jx I mean there it is. What other evidence would one need? How is still CEO after that is the real question. But others and his subordinates have gotten the message loud and clear and are carrying out his directives that he desires

@jq LOL I forgot about this! There it is IBM being blatantly racist caught on video tape. And recently too! And it’s the modern racism that many of the posts are subtly alluding too. Pretty blunt example coming right out of CEOs mouth.

Watch Dr Evil IBM CEO Arvind Krishna smile and brag about holding back executive pay if IBM does not hit hiring metrics based on s-x, gender, skin color, race, ethnicity etc in this leaked video. All highly illegal in the US under the 1964 Civil Rights Act Title VII.

This is a leaked internal IBM Red Hat video. Disgusting. IBM went full Woke, DEI, BLM, racist over decades but it all started with Gerstner 4-12-93 when he came in to burn down IBM and walk away with $400,000,000 and layoff well over 100,000 over 18 mos and take away promised pensions. Disgusting men both as well as all IBM CEOs since Gerstner.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrfVIbXKqtg

@e7 IBM did not eradicate the racism embedded within its organizational culture; rather, it overcorrected in the opposite direction. Instead of addressing the underlying systemic inequities, it effectively redistributed the imbalance, shifting the dynamics and weight of the discrimination rather than eliminating it.

The current H-1B visa fraud crackdown exposing widespread abuse by tech companies really show take a long hard look at IBM’s Albany site.

Anti-white racism

@OP How about ageism? IBM wrote the handbook on that one.

@ds yes but look at all leadership charts. You only see two groups. @ah+1m646j7gt
Is correct. It’s is absolutely dominated by two different groups. Zoom it out a little and it is remarkably stunning what’s lacking and how much is these two groups

@ah Albany has a decent number of blacks and hispanics

For good or ill, the move to India is inevitable. The company pretends to be a general high tech company. But that is mostly bluster. Whatever "hybrid cloud" is, it isn't world beating modern technology. The AI story at IBM is muddled and meandering but it isn't world beating modern technology. We're taking a flyer on quantum and that might bring greatness but that is still a long way off.

As IBM has lost battle after battle in generations of emerging technology, it has retreated to its last redoubt: the mainframe (and maybe IBM i.) The mainframe is essential to running the world's economy and that makes it a very valuable asset. The problem really is that, for all the hype, there isn't a lot of exciting organic growth. The banks need it in the same way that they need power transformers and plumbing.

That leaves us with a company that is milking a cash cow and will do so for a long time. It will continue to be bit players in other technology but that won't amount to much. When you are an old tech company milking a cash cow, you're number one objective is cost cutting. You are well past the innovation stage. When cost cutting is a much bigger imperative than innovation, you move the remaining work to a low wage country. So the shift to India is an inevitable result of all those battles the company lost over the years.

@bg Being part part of the problem ?

Retired after 37 years at IBM this year. I have a lot of bad things to say about the leadership practices at IBM, but racism is not one of them. So utter nonsense.....

The main racism in IBM today is against the people from India.

@ah
The Promotions there tell everyone what the leadership values

Albany might be the most racist place I have ever worked. Two groups have taken over. Favoritism and cronyism is off the charts.

DEI and the practice of it is racism itself.

About 20 years, it was apparent there was evidence of white racism towards others. The last decade has shown, there is racism by Indians toward others.