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[04:12]	schestowitz[TR2]	"Dear SUEPO members, dear colleagues,
[04:12]	schestowitz[TR2]	The elections of the staff committee The Hague will take place from Tuesday 16 June 2026, 08.00 hrs to Thursday 18 June 2026, 16.00 hrs via your EPO email. Please vote in this election to strengthen the mandate of the team that has been leading the defence of the employment package. At a time of industrial action and continued cuts to the working conditions, supporting your union is of paramount importance. Your vote empowers the t
[04:12]	schestowitz[TR2]	eam to continue resisting the erosion of our rights through negotiation, legal challenges, and collective action.
[04:12]	schestowitz[TR2]	We are pleased to have a SUEPO team of 17 candidates, including new colleagues whom we are delighted to welcome, who are ready to continue to:
[04:12]	schestowitz[TR2]	    Defend the rights and interests of all EPO staff members,
[04:12]	schestowitz[TR2]	    Resist the erosion of working conditions,
[04:12]	schestowitz[TR2]	    Provide effective communication between staff and their representatives,
[04:12]	schestowitz[TR2]	    Improve fairness and transparency at the EPO, and
[04:12]	schestowitz[TR2]	    Strive to enhance the collective spirit at the Office.
[04:12]	schestowitz[TR2]	"
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[05:05]	schestowitz[TR2]	https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1ktt6x93e#replies
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[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	""
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	Hope you have a backup plan bro
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	https://m.economictimes.com/news/international/us/banker-fired-for-coffee-badging-despite-ee-rating-asks-for-interview-help-advice-turns-blunt/articleshow/129473357.cms
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	https://stlawyers.ca/blog-news/bce-coffee-badging-terminations-2026/
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	2 hours ago by Anonymous
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[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	Post ID: @eg+1ktt6x93e
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	 0 
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	@dn insubordination x 10. Good luck. That is all logged by the way
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	2 hours ago by Anonymous
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	| no reactions | Reply
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	Post ID: @ef+1ktt6x93e
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	 +1 
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	I terraformed my shorts.
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	3 hours ago by Anonymous
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	| 1 reaction (+1/-0) | Reply
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	Post ID: @e7+1ktt6x93e
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	 +2 
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	@dq - I just looked up at the sky and I don't see IBM written on any of the clouds. Employment with IBM has become a joke and the buffoons that IBM has placed in its leadership leave no stone unturned to prove it over and again.
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	4 hours ago by Anonymous
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	| 2 reactions (+2/-0) | Reply
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	Post ID: @e3+1ktt6x93e
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	 +4 
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	IBM has a Cloud ?
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	6 hours ago by Anonymous
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	| 4 reactions (+4/-0) | Reply
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	Post ID: @dq+1ktt6x93e
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	 +2 
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	Who really cares about RTO, the sh---y offices, toilets, etc... Go badge in, then immediately turn around and go home... all these IBM offices should be empty!
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	Be smart, badge in and go home!
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	That's what I do 3 times a week when there is no traffic during the day!
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	6 hours ago by Anonymous
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	| 4 reactions (+3/-1) | Reply
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	Post ID: @dn+1ktt6x93e
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	 +4 
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	@d7 Sadly no, IBM is only interested in getting raises and bonuses to Arvind Krispy Kreme and his Pipmunks going forward.
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	Does any of them care if you have a longer and more expensive commute ? No more than than Agent Orange. And you were spot on about the upcoming toilet downgrades. Soon you will have to pay $2 to relieve yourself each time in the small cubicle toilets that Krispy Kreme is constructing at the remaining IBM sites. These are built on the Indian squat style and there is no toilet paper, so bring your own. The goal is to make things as u
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	ncomfortable for IBM US employees so they will quit and then IBM has to be out of pocket even less. This is why the F&O division is filled with embezzlers, thieves and ex-cons. And Miz Wrong rules them all.
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	Don't be surprised if Krispy Kreme orders this post deleted as soon as he sees it. The previous one was deleted earlier. LOL !
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	7 hours ago by Anonymous
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	| 4 reactions (+4/-0) | Reply
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	Post ID: @df+1ktt6x93e
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	 +3 
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	@OP - Are there showers, fitness center and yoga classes onsite that are being offered as incentives to come to work? That may be a motivation for some but if the expectation is that most people would resign, that would make it look like the real objective for IBM is to save money they would otherwise pay as severance. To ask them why they are calling people back to office when it is clearly not going to make a difference is useles
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	s, after all, these clowns have only been trained to run the circus by their masters, not to answer questions or think logically.
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	8 hours ago by Anonymous
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	| 3 reactions (+3/-0) | Reply
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	Post ID: @d7+1ktt6x93e
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	 +8 
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	@cs
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	Arvind KrispyKreme rises at dawn,
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	His tie perfectly straight, his conscience long gone.
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	He surveys IBM like a kingdom of steam,
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	Fueled entirely by layoffs and KrispyKreme.
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	He whispers, Efficiency, with his evil CEO grin,
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	Which everyone knows means Let the cuts begin.
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	He sharpens his spreadsheets, cold and extreme,
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	A guillotine forged from frosting KrispyKreme.
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	AI is his sword, quantum his shield,
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	He swings both wildly across the corporate field.
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	Automate everything! he shouts with a scream,
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	While HR quietly updates the offboarding team.
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	The org chart trembles a seismic event 
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	Entire departments vanish like they never paid rent.
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	Cost savings! he cheers, a sugary dream,
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	As badges stop working midlatte KrispyKreme.
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	Then comes the offshoring plan, bold as a coup,
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	A PowerPoint deck titled Why This Isnt About You.
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	He points at a map with executive gleam,
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	Shift the workload globally and pass me a cream.
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	He claims its strategic, a visionary stance,
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	But the timing suggests its just budget finance.
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	He calls it global synergy, a corporate meme,
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	But everyone knows its pure KrispyKreme.
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	Quantum computing hums in a cryogenic tomb,
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	Colder than the vibe in the conference room.
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	Qubits will save us! he says with esteem,
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	While another team disappears like a fever dream.
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	Employees refresh Slack with existential dread,
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	Wondering whose job is quietly dead.
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	But Arvind just smiles, serene as a dream,
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	For nothing pierces the glaze of KrispyKreme.
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	He ends each quarter with a donutfueled roar,
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	Layoffs complete! Now lets cut some more!
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	He sprinkles reductions like frosting supreme,
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	A costcutting wizard Arvind KrispyKreme.
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	And when IBMs future is foggy and bleak,
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	Hell say, Were more agile, with a corporate cheek.
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	Then ride into sunset on a donut machine,
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	The patron saint of layoffs Sir Arvind KrispyKreme.
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	10 hours ago by Anonymous
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	| 10 reactions (+9/-1) | Reply
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	Post ID: @d0+1ktt6x93e
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	 +4 
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	Are Bob, Rob "I look mahvelous in hoodies and sneakers" Thomas and the lurking IBM troll in here that has 1328 down votes and not a single up vote, all the same entity?
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	There once was a fellow named Bob
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	Whose favorite pastime was his job
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	Hed type and he'd click
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	But then very quick
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	Would turn into a blubbering s-b.
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	11 hours ago by Anonymous
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	| 4 reactions (+4/-0) | Reply
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	Post ID: @cs+1ktt6x93e
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	 +3 
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	Bob hates back to the office.
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	12 hours ago by Anonymous
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	| 3 reactions (+3/-0) | Reply
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	Post ID: @cj+1ktt6x93e
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	 -2 
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	@ae
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	You have all the tools to be a critical thinker, and this is how you use them?
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	What a shame.
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	16 hours ago by Anonymous
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	| 8 reactions (+3/-5) | Reply
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	Post ID: @bx+1ktt6x93e
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	 0 
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	@bs why is there not as much to do with the recent announcement ?
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	16 hours ago by Anonymous
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	| no reactions | Reply
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	Post ID: @bw+1ktt6x93e
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	 +5 
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	IBM doesn't actually care about "working closer together for more productivity" and "team building." They also don't care about you. If they did, they wouldn't force an RTO mandate when gas was so expensive. An executive team at a decent company would be more lenient right now to help people out. Especially in light of the fact that raises will be peanuts this year and they've already taken away so many other things. The only offic
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	e near me is over-crowded and setup so that you can't actually take a client call without disturbing everyone else around you unless you're lucky enough to get one of the few small rooms. The amenities are bare bones. It wouldn't surprise me if they decide to take away the bathrooms next to "increase productivity."
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	This is all for one thing only - to cull the herd. You are nothing to IBM but an expense on a spreadsheet. This company and its executive leadership are sht.
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	16 hours ago by Anonymous
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	| 7 reactions (+6/-1) | Reply
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	Post ID: @bv+1ktt6x93e
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	 +6 
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	@bs ah, you must be referring to Arvind Krispy Kreme's friends and cronies - it's all part of the IBM Friends And Family program. It's meant to put US employees on PIPs to save money for Arvind's bonus for 2027, and spend millions of dollars to bring in more of the Indian crooks to the US on some excuse of the other. It's IBM Cost Savings from the F&O Division.
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	16 hours ago by Anonymous
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	| 6 reactions (+6/-0) | Reply
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	Post ID: @bt+1ktt6x93e
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	 +5 
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	Albany is already full on 5 day RTO but with recent announcements not as much to do. There are people who come in and just sit around all day
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	16 hours ago by Anonymous
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	| 5 reactions (+5/-0) | Reply
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	Post ID: @bs+1ktt6x93e
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	 +5 
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	Go badge in and go home!
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	16 hours ago by Anonymous
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	| 11 reactions (+8/-3) | Reply
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	Post ID: @br+1ktt6x93e
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	 +2 
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	3 days at work only?
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	So go to work.
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	Hope you have a backup plan bro
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	https://m.economictimes.com/news/international/us/banker-fired-for-coffee-badging-despite-ee-rating-asks-for-interview-help-advice-turns-blunt/articleshow/129473357.cms
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	https://stlawyers.ca/blog-news/bce-coffee-badging-terminations-2026/
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	2 hours ago by Anonymous
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[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	Post ID: @eg+1ktt6x93e
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	 0 
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	@dn insubordination x 10. Good luck. That is all logged by the way
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	2 hours ago by Anonymous
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[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	Post ID: @ef+1ktt6x93e
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	 +1 
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	I terraformed my shorts.
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	3 hours ago by Anonymous
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	| 1 reaction (+1/-0) | Reply
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	Post ID: @e7+1ktt6x93e
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	 +2 
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	@dq - I just looked up at the sky and I don't see IBM written on any of the clouds. Employment with IBM has become a joke and the buffoons that IBM has placed in its leadership leave no stone unturned to prove it over and again.
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	4 hours ago by Anonymous
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	| 2 reactions (+2/-0) | Reply
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	Post ID: @e3+1ktt6x93e
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	 +4 
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	IBM has a Cloud ?
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	6 hours ago by Anonymous
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	| 4 reactions (+4/-0) | Reply
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	Post ID: @dq+1ktt6x93e
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	 +2 
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	Who really cares about RTO, the sh---y offices, toilets, etc... Go badge in, then immediately turn around and go home... all these IBM offices should be empty!
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	Be smart, badge in and go home!
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	That's what I do 3 times a week when there is no traffic during the day!
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	6 hours ago by Anonymous
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	| 4 reactions (+3/-1) | Reply
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	Post ID: @dn+1ktt6x93e
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	 +4 
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	@d7 Sadly no, IBM is only interested in getting raises and bonuses to Arvind Krispy Kreme and his Pipmunks going forward.
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	Does any of them care if you have a longer and more expensive commute ? No more than than Agent Orange. And you were spot on about the upcoming toilet downgrades. Soon you will have to pay $2 to relieve yourself each time in the small cubicle toilets that Krispy Kreme is constructing at the remaining IBM sites. These are built on the Indian squat style and there is no toilet paper, so bring your own. The goal is to make things as u
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	ncomfortable for IBM US employees so they will quit and then IBM has to be out of pocket even less. This is why the F&O division is filled with embezzlers, thieves and ex-cons. And Miz Wrong rules them all.
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	Don't be surprised if Krispy Kreme orders this post deleted as soon as he sees it. The previous one was deleted earlier. LOL !
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	7 hours ago by Anonymous
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	| 4 reactions (+4/-0) | Reply
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	Post ID: @df+1ktt6x93e
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	 +3 
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	@OP - Are there showers, fitness center and yoga classes onsite that are being offered as incentives to come to work? That may be a motivation for some but if the expectation is that most people would resign, that would make it look like the real objective for IBM is to save money they would otherwise pay as severance. To ask them why they are calling people back to office when it is clearly not going to make a difference is useles
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	s, after all, these clowns have only been trained to run the circus by their masters, not to answer questions or think logically.
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	8 hours ago by Anonymous
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	| 3 reactions (+3/-0) | Reply
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	Post ID: @d7+1ktt6x93e
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	 +8 
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	@cs
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	Arvind KrispyKreme rises at dawn,
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	His tie perfectly straight, his conscience long gone.
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	He surveys IBM like a kingdom of steam,
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	Fueled entirely by layoffs and KrispyKreme.
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	He whispers, Efficiency, with his evil CEO grin,
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	Which everyone knows means Let the cuts begin.
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	He sharpens his spreadsheets, cold and extreme,
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	A guillotine forged from frosting KrispyKreme.
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	AI is his sword, quantum his shield,
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	He swings both wildly across the corporate field.
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	Automate everything! he shouts with a scream,
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	While HR quietly updates the offboarding team.
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	The org chart trembles a seismic event 
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	Entire departments vanish like they never paid rent.
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	Cost savings! he cheers, a sugary dream,
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	As badges stop working midlatte KrispyKreme.
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	Then comes the offshoring plan, bold as a coup,
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	A PowerPoint deck titled Why This Isnt About You.
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	He points at a map with executive gleam,
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	Shift the workload globally and pass me a cream.
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	He claims its strategic, a visionary stance,
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	But the timing suggests its just budget finance.
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	He calls it global synergy, a corporate meme,
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	But everyone knows its pure KrispyKreme.
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	Quantum computing hums in a cryogenic tomb,
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	Colder than the vibe in the conference room.
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	Qubits will save us! he says with esteem,
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	While another team disappears like a fever dream.
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	Employees refresh Slack with existential dread,
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	Wondering whose job is quietly dead.
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	But Arvind just smiles, serene as a dream,
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	For nothing pierces the glaze of KrispyKreme.
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	He ends each quarter with a donutfueled roar,
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	Layoffs complete! Now lets cut some more!
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	He sprinkles reductions like frosting supreme,
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	A costcutting wizard Arvind KrispyKreme.
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	And when IBMs future is foggy and bleak,
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	Hell say, Were more agile, with a corporate cheek.
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	Then ride into sunset on a donut machine,
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	The patron saint of layoffs Sir Arvind KrispyKreme.
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	10 hours ago by Anonymous
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	| 10 reactions (+9/-1) | Reply
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	Post ID: @d0+1ktt6x93e
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	 +4 
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	Are Bob, Rob "I look mahvelous in hoodies and sneakers" Thomas and the lurking IBM troll in here that has 1328 down votes and not a single up vote, all the same entity?
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	There once was a fellow named Bob
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	Whose favorite pastime was his job
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	Hed type and he'd click
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	But then very quick
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	Would turn into a blubbering s-b.
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	11 hours ago by Anonymous
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	| 4 reactions (+4/-0) | Reply
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	Post ID: @cs+1ktt6x93e
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	 +3 
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	Bob hates back to the office.
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	12 hours ago by Anonymous
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	| 3 reactions (+3/-0) | Reply
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	Post ID: @cj+1ktt6x93e
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	 -2 
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	@ae
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	You have all the tools to be a critical thinker, and this is how you use them?
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	What a shame.
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	16 hours ago by Anonymous
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	| 8 reactions (+3/-5) | Reply
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	Post ID: @bx+1ktt6x93e
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[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	@bs why is there not as much to do with the recent announcement ?
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	16 hours ago by Anonymous
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[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	IBM doesn't actually care about "working closer together for more productivity" and "team building." They also don't care about you. If they did, they wouldn't force an RTO mandate when gas was so expensive. An executive team at a decent company would be more lenient right now to help people out. Especially in light of the fact that raises will be peanuts this year and they've already taken away so many other things. The only offic
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	e near me is over-crowded and setup so that you can't actually take a client call without disturbing everyone else around you unless you're lucky enough to get one of the few small rooms. The amenities are bare bones. It wouldn't surprise me if they decide to take away the bathrooms next to "increase productivity."
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	This is all for one thing only - to cull the herd. You are nothing to IBM but an expense on a spreadsheet. This company and its executive leadership are sht.
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	16 hours ago by Anonymous
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[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	@bs ah, you must be referring to Arvind Krispy Kreme's friends and cronies - it's all part of the IBM Friends And Family program. It's meant to put US employees on PIPs to save money for Arvind's bonus for 2027, and spend millions of dollars to bring in more of the Indian crooks to the US on some excuse of the other. It's IBM Cost Savings from the F&O Division.
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	16 hours ago by Anonymous
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[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	Albany is already full on 5 day RTO but with recent announcements not as much to do. There are people who come in and just sit around all day
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	16 hours ago by Anonymous
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[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	Go badge in and go home!
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	16 hours ago by Anonymous
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[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	3 days at work only?
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	So go to work.
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[05:11]	schestowitz[TR2]	https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kteks3hs#replies
[05:11]	schestowitz[TR2]	"heehee! With who? How? Bob? AskHR? IBM is a dumpster fire of incompetent people and systems. There is no real way to fight anything at IBM. It is the Start Trek Borg combined with the Dark Side Star Wars and many other evil doers. Take you pay daily. Put 1 foot in front of the other daily/weekly/monthly like the Apple 1984 ad making fun of IBM that turned out to be epic truth. If you are too young or have not seen this epic ad her
[05:11]	schestowitz[TR2]	e it is => https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErwS24cBZPc
[05:11]	schestowitz[TR2]	14 hours ago by Anonymous
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[05:11]	schestowitz[TR2]	How come no one files an internal grievance that the pip state is being abused and misused?
[05:11]	schestowitz[TR2]	1 day ago by Anonymous
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[05:11]	schestowitz[TR2]	PIPs are window dressing for judges and juries; they are not plans to jolt an employee back into long-term strong to superb contribution (its a marathon, not a sprint.) I have over a third of a century at IBM and spent over a quarter century in IBM management. Despite what HR claims, almost no one passes a PIP. PIPs fail by design at IBM. Senior management and HR review every word of every plan. They wordsmith repeatedly u
[05:11]	schestowitz[TR2]	ntil failure is the foregone conclusion of a seemingly reasonable plan.
[05:11]	schestowitz[TR2]	The trap is fully set and personalized before the employee hears the news of the PIP. Management has already been penning an intricate paper trail of superficially valid but highly selective evidence for over a year at this point. This trail specifically includes a summary, but not the verbatim text, of the intermediate negative feedback the employee was given with verifiable timestamps. Argument to the jury: this paper trail shows
[05:11]	schestowitz[TR2]	 that we warned this critter repeatedly months and months ago; he did not change; then, out of mercy, we gave one final chance in the form of a PIP. Much later when the PIP trap is sprung, it is almost impossible to contest this paper trail. One party has a fictionalized account in writing; the aggrieved has only his unverifiable recollections from a distance of months.
[05:11]	schestowitz[TR2]	I know of two PIP survivors, and I have initiated or advised on far, far more PIPs than that. Within 3 years, senior management had found other ways to force the two survivors out. Life during a PIP is far from pleasant. And if one does survive, the powers on high strive to make the next stage of ones IBM career even less pleasant.
[05:11]	schestowitz[TR2]	PIPs are window dressing for judges and juries. They greatly reduce legal costs and court-ordered damages arising from disputed involuntary employee separations. This is a big cog in IBMs financial engineering machine.
[05:11]	schestowitz[TR2]	1 day ago by Anonymous
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[05:11]	schestowitz[TR2]	@OP is knowledge transfer the same thing as a brain (or brainless) dump ?
[05:11]	schestowitz[TR2]	1 day ago by Anonymous
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[05:11]	schestowitz[TR2]	I noticed that some comments quickly disappear when such comments link directly the firing actions in the US to the hiring actions in India.
[05:11]	schestowitz[TR2]	A large amounts of PIP are closely related to the continuous offshoring to India of US work.
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[05:14]	schestowitz[TR2]	https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1ktfkx7x8#replies
[05:14]	schestowitz[TR2]	"what happened to those innovative postings about Mr. Dead Gerbil and Arvind Krispy-Kreme ?
[05:14]	schestowitz[TR2]	It's hilarious to read the facts about Dead Gerbil and Dr. Krispy-Kreme.
[05:14]	schestowitz[TR2]	1 day ago by Anonymous
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[05:14]	schestowitz[TR2]	@t3 Hi Troll, all any of these c-suite types have cared about are shareholders and their golden parachutes. They certainly dont care about you and your nonsense 35 badges and 5000 hours of joke training and whatever else you claim to be doing. At IBM you are considered one thing - an expense on a spreadsheet. If they can find a way to fire you without severance, they will. Its their collective wet dream.
[05:14]	schestowitz[TR2]	Everyone on this board who is still at IBM should be actively looking for employment at a more reputable company, and until then spend minimum viable effort. IBM uses you. Use them back.
[05:14]	schestowitz[TR2]	1 day ago by Anonymous
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[05:14]	schestowitz[TR2]	The Bile hate and vitriol continues to spew and bubble up hot and thick.
[05:14]	schestowitz[TR2]	Now Dehumanizing Jim K and Joanne? Where is the decency here?
[05:14]	schestowitz[TR2]	I noticed that Rometty does not get any criticism. I am not going to dehumanize her, but she was not a good CEO. Quarter after quarter of declining revenue. But why does Arvind get so much hate? He brought IBM back to positive revenue growth he engineered the Red Hat acquisition and making IBM Competetive.
[05:14]	schestowitz[TR2]	Ans Mr Gerstner. Everyone said break up IBM. The company was ready for an autopsy but through his leadership and guidance he rescued IBM. Now that is what heroes are made of
[05:14]	schestowitz[TR2]	1 day ago by Anonymous
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[05:14]	schestowitz[TR2]	@qz and what would Joanne Wrong know about upskilling ? she has a face that would stop a clock and a body that wobbles like the backside of a double decker bus.
[05:14]	schestowitz[TR2]	But, It's Pride month and she's Fat and Proud.
[05:14]	schestowitz[TR2]	1 day ago by Anonymous
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[05:14]	schestowitz[TR2]	@qz youre right. Gerstner cant defend himself while roasting in the lowest levels of fiery pit for destroying so many lives while his putrid soul walked among us. As for Arvind - who cares? Who defends the thousands of IBMers who are PIPed and let go without severance so Arvind can get his $30M payout for ruining the company?
[05:14]	schestowitz[TR2]	1 day ago by Anonymous
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[05:14]	schestowitz[TR2]	@qy right we know youre just some random nobody getting off on trolling responses from people here because you got tired of surfing for p o r n and otherwise have no life. Hey did you see those stock prices? Looks like the market figured out pretty quickly that Arvind is full of sht. Oh I meant to ask - did you get the I s u c k the PIPmunks off badge yet, or do you still have to record your kneel-and-deliver?
[05:14]	schestowitz[TR2]	1 day ago by Anonymous
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[05:14]	schestowitz[TR2]	@qz Do Krabanaugh and Wrong also recommend adding more fats and sugars along with masala to your dishes? You know that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. So you better be upskilling your girth too to look more like your masters. You need to add more pounds to be competitive at sumo even if you're wrestling on your knees.
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[17:36]	schestowitz[TR2]	"GNOME has gone into damage control mode after the recently reported details on their dysfunction and corruption.
[17:36]	schestowitz[TR2]	GNOME has censored several posts, from multiple users, including from ex-GNOME Board member, Sonny Piers.
[17:36]	schestowitz[TR2]	The GNOME moderators have blamed well-known bad actors and grifters covering the topic for why they enacted mass censorship.
[17:36]	schestowitz[TR2]	Whoever could they be referring to?  
[17:36]	schestowitz[TR2]	In addition, the President of the GNOME Foundation made a statement suggesting that people should not talk about the corruption of GNOME:
[17:36]	schestowitz[TR2]	I want to ask everyone in this thread to consider the impact of these conversations on those who have been affected by these conduct issues, including those who you may not be aware of."
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