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| schestowitz[TR2] | <lxo> I'm told this is the ticket to watch https://announce.positive-internet.com/GSK37T but I don't know whether information about the provider is to be divulged | Sep 03 05:41 |
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| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-announce.positive-internet.com | Incident GSK37T | Sep 03 05:41 | |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49545206 | Sep 03 20:46 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | "Does anyone know if something happened to stallman.org? | Sep 03 20:46 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | 5 points by byte_0 17 hours ago | hide | past | favorite | 3 comments | Sep 03 20:46 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Sep 03 20:46 | |
| schestowitz[TR2] | I have attempted to access it many times today and it seems to be down, at least from where I live, in Central America. Given his health state and his activism, I am curious if something happened that I am not aware of." | Sep 03 20:46 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-news.ycombinator.com | Does anyone know if something happened to stallman.org? | Hacker News | Sep 03 20:46 | |
| schestowitz[TR2] | "I think the VM hosting his site is just down/offline | Sep 03 20:46 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | PING 216.116.72.174 (216.116.72.174) 56(84) bytes of data. From 69.9.36.2 icmp_seq=1 Destination Host Unreachable | Sep 03 20:46 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | curl: (7) Failed to connect to 216.116.72.174 port 80 after 2083 ms: Couldn't connect to server | Sep 03 20:46 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | reply | Sep 03 20:46 |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | fennec-posix 17 hours ago | parent | next [–] | Sep 03 20:46 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Looks like his hosting provider itself is offline. | Sep 03 20:46 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | reply | Sep 03 20:46 |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | orionblastar 16 hours ago | prev [–] | Sep 03 20:46 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | https://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/stallman.org" | Sep 03 20:46 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-downforeveryoneorjustme.com | Is Stallman.org down? Live status and problems past 24 hours | Sep 03 20:47 | |
| schestowitz[TR2] | https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1m1gqc5k1 | Sep 03 21:19 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes- ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1m1gqc5k1 ) | Sep 03 21:19 | |
| schestowitz[TR2] | " | Sep 03 21:19 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Ready to retire by the end of the year. Been asked to train some Indians to take over the responsibilities. Sad to see team members being PIP’ed and literally being pushed out the door to make room for Indians. | Sep 03 21:19 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | 2 hours ago by Anonymous | Sep 03 21:19 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | | 4 reactions (+4/-0) | Reply | Sep 03 21:19 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Post ID: @g1+1m1gqc5k1 | Sep 03 21:19 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | +1 | Sep 03 21:19 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | It’s interesting if you run the 8/15% numbers | Sep 03 21:19 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Currently IBM has approx 265k worth of employees worldwide | Sep 03 21:19 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | That equates to 21k / 40k worth of employees impacted (8 / 15) | Sep 03 21:19 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Given a 10k head count per billion for first world employee savings (NA and Europe) and a 30k per billion worth of savings for the rest of the world we can estimate some savings | Sep 03 21:19 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | NA/ Europe savings at 8% would equate to approx 6500 heads or 650 million | Sep 03 21:19 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | The rest of the world at 8% would equate to approx 14,500 heads or 500 million | Sep 03 21:19 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | That nets to 1.1-1.2 billion in savings which just about nets to what IBM said FCF would grow to | Sep 03 21:19 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | 4 hours ago by Anonymous | Sep 03 21:19 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | | 3 reactions (+2/-1) | Reply | Sep 03 21:19 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Post ID: @fm+1m1gqc5k1 | Sep 03 21:19 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | +5 | Sep 03 21:19 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | @cj given that RAs are one of IBM's top products, continued growth is only possible if they can eliminate severance. | Sep 03 21:19 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Given that most teams have already been cut to the bone -- they were cut to the bone two years ago -- they can afford to reduce the layoff percentage from 15 to 8% if it saves them severance. Not like there's that many people left anyway unless you're in India. | Sep 03 21:19 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | PIP pip hooray! | Sep 03 21:19 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | 5 hours ago by PIP pip hooray! | Sep 03 21:19 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | | 5 reactions (+5/-0) | Reply | Sep 03 21:19 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Post ID: @fg+1m1gqc5k1 | Sep 03 21:19 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | +8 | Sep 03 21:19 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Yes, there is a PIP target of 15% with the aim of cutting 8% by end of year. Some managers are pushing back, but the higher ups are not bulging. | Sep 03 21:19 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | 20 hours ago by Anonymous | Sep 03 21:19 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | | 8 reactions (+8/-0) | Reply | Sep 03 21:19 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Post ID: @cp+1m1gqc5k1 | Sep 03 21:19 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | +11 | Sep 03 21:19 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | IBM doesn’t want to do RAs. It looks bad to the shareholders. The company’s strategy is to force managers to target 15% of their team as low performers (even when there is none), and put them on PIPs or de-incentive them by making their lives miserable (more work, no salary increase, etc.) to get them to leave. Source: my manager. | Sep 03 21:19 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | " | Sep 03 21:19 |
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