Thread regarding IBM layoffs

You can't attract the best and brightest minds to a company where they have to spend every day looking over their shoulders for a layoff, or other employees who want to sacrifice you to avoid the layoff themselves, or managers who throw you on any project that looks pretty at the moment until the moment passes and then you're off somewhere else. Today's young people feel too entitled but they actually are entitled to a better place than IBM.

IBM always recruited right out of college to keep fresh blood flowing, but they trained them, instilled work habits, standards of conduct, even including appearance and deportment.

IBM produced young eager fresh thinkers, but with a culture of high performance professionalism. Not anymore. Now IBM hires snotty know nothings who think they know better than the experienced professional folks who they're replacing. Shortsighted, counter productive, and sad (Ginni's middle name is "Short Sighted" in case you haven't been paying attention).

Where's Lou Gerstner when we need him?

You are so correct in your synopsis. Whilst I absolutely agree that IBM needs new blood and ideas from the millenial demographic, its methods for displacing existing employees is at best quite sinister, wholly unethical and flies in the face of its own principles. Until recently, people could at least have some degree of comfort knowing that they'd get a decent pay-off if the worse happens.

Eventually, the younger employees will realise that this will be their eventual fate - that sudden feeling of desperation as you try to justify your existence, work colleagues suddenly treating you like a leper and an unceremonious goodbye with a miserly month's pay in the bank. I cannot understand why anyone would work for IBM now.

OP, your signature is pure #GOLD

Sincerely,

Current Employee hoping not to get fired as each birthday passes.

You are correct. A good indicator of this is that the once honorable Distinguished Engineer position is now judged by how much social media following candidates can build, how much sales they have been a part of, etc. Rather than any actual "engineering." And they wonder why they are losing so much talent to the likes of Amazon.

If you are young, the last place you want to work in is Armonk