Our team lost two people with more than two decades of experience each. That is invaluable knowledge shown the door while people who just joined literally in the past 12 months are still here. Who makes such colossally stupid decisions on who to cut? I know our manager had nothing to do with it because he's pi---d and he's not even trying to hide it.
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More than 20 years at IBM ====> Too expensive and too complacent
More than 20 years at IBM ====> Working at Walmart next
More than 20 years at IBM ===> unemployable ====> Retirement
Everyone complaining about AK needs to get their heads examined - Ginny, your typical suburban Karen did the most damage and maximum number of layoff's under her watch and all we heard were crickets!
Maybe the (2) former employees with 20+ year’s of experience each were not very good performers. People do become very complacent.
If AK wasn’t Indian he would never had been selected to be CEO; because the board needed an Indian to offshore high paying jobs to India; this is the result of IBM not innovating anymore and becoming irrelevant
AK said: “I got selected by the board to be CEO to offshore US jobs to India etc..; If I don’t move high paying jobs to India, Mexico etc, IBM will go bankrupt , and I will lose my jobs and my $ millions from compensation “
AK said: “Dinosaurs rejects from IBM will end up working at McDonald’s “
Pretty soon, AK is gonna say "too many cheap and incompetent Indians running the IBM sh*tshow into the ground. Can you hire me some cheap Africans instead ? With all the imaginary AI running, they don't need to do much work and I can pay them even less than Indians."
AK said :”Too many expensive IBM dinosaurs”
AK said: “I will replace aging d_inosaurs with younger cheaper H1Bs; it’s just financial business “
They totally can, and have, RAed people who joined within 12 months.
Why don’t they focus on the dead weight middle management ? They’re just glorified administrators who are incapable of doing any real work.
They’re good at scheduling meetings and using worn out buzz words and demanding we “learn new skills” while most of them probably are incapable of doing basic excel functions
It's a real shame that IBM isn't led by a LLM. Obviously not one of ours - but AK really doesn't add anything that a markov chain couldn't replace him with for a fraction of his bonus.
The people laying you off are 5 levels above you and see you as a line in an Excel sheet. They see you merely as cost, rather than what you achieve for the company. And when, in 12 months time, when we're making less money - they'll fire more vital 'costs' in response. IBM are experts at repeatedly cannibalising itself to give the perception of long profitability.
It can't last forever, but the markets only see last quarter and next quarter. We're led by that, rather than anyone with any vision.
They can’t generally RA anyone who joined within 12 months. Also the experienced employees are probably higher bands, so $$$