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| schestowitz[TR2] | I’m saddened to say I’m leaving IBM after more than 3 decades because all i get to do now is professionally fire people. Its sole function is to add to the unemployment dole. It cuts corners, makes exclusively garbage products no one wants, has a twitchy, weird, eye bulging, hare brained lunatic at the helm of “marketing” who is not a marketer at all, and yet the company can’t figure out why it can’t compete. So now mor | Aug 12 06:11 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | e layoffs coming. I guess not much point in saying “more“ since this is all these garbage human beings know how to do, but they are certainly coming again in September. IBM MCC is being run by pathetic asinine defects who have no idea what they are doing because they are neither true marketers nor true communicators. JA is filth who has made a “career” out of nothing but surviving by making his equally despicable overlords | Aug 12 06:11 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | happy by destroying lives and that’s literally all he’s good for. His sycophants are weak and pathetic and terrified and do whatever he says even when it makes zero sense. There is no strategy, no vision, and no path to the future that doesn’t end in the destruction of careers, lives, and families. I can’t be a party to it any further. I hope these filth get what they deserve, but i shan’t be here to find out. | Aug 12 06:11 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | 13 hours ago by Anonymous | Aug 12 06:11 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | | 561 views | 9 reactions (+9/-0) | 9 replies (last 1 hour ago) | Reply | Aug 12 06:11 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Post ID: @OP+1k2cy6p6t | Aug 12 06:11 |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | 9 replies (most recent on top) | Aug 12 06:11 |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | Marketing, Communications and Corporate Social Responsibility (MCC)? | Aug 12 06:11 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | 1 hour ago by Anonymous | Aug 12 06:11 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | | 1 reaction (+1/-0) | Reply | Aug 12 06:11 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Post ID: @c7+1k2cy6p6t | Aug 12 06:11 |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | Left due to RTO from MCC and was the best decision I ever made. The politics and sheer stress from MCC was tremendous. I wish all that stay good luck. | Aug 12 06:11 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | 2 hours ago by Anonymous | Aug 12 06:11 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | | 2 reactions (+2/-0) | Reply | Aug 12 06:11 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Post ID: @bx+1k2cy6p6t | Aug 12 06:11 |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | Now, if I only knew what MCC meant. I'm guessing Marketing, but what is CC? | Aug 12 06:11 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | 3 hours ago by Anonymous | Aug 12 06:11 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | | 1 reaction (+1/-0) | Reply | Aug 12 06:11 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Post ID: @bw+1k2cy6p6t | Aug 12 06:11 |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | @ab | Aug 12 06:11 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | There is no marketing in IBM for at least 2 decades. It's been from my own experience, a bunch of people filling out PPTs. The templates are already pre-created. From how the slide needs to look like to what needs to say. Same with white papers, etc. | Aug 12 06:11 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Basically, no creativity, no strategy, just a repository with structured stuff that someone fills out and gets out the door. | Aug 12 06:11 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | 10 hours ago by Anonymous | Aug 12 06:11 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | | 3 reactions (+3/-0) | Reply | Aug 12 06:11 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Post ID: @ae+1k2cy6p6t | Aug 12 06:11 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | +4 | Aug 12 06:11 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | As a recently discarded MCCer, I agree 100% with everything expressed in the post. IBM is relying solely on their reputation as a 20th century innovator --- innovating zip in the 21st century. ESL writers can't possibly create motivating words with their lack of understanding of the nuances of the language and their desperate desire to please their overlords, no matter the rationale. Sad. So sad. The heyday of IBM marketing creativ | Aug 12 06:11 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | ity is done. | Aug 12 06:11 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | 11 hours ago by Anonymous | Aug 12 06:11 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | | 4 reactions (+4/-0) | Reply | Aug 12 06:11 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Post ID: @ab+1k2cy6p6t | Aug 12 06:11 |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | I am the OP. One thing further needs to be said: the racism and xenophobia must end. The problem is not India. It’s Armonk, One Madison, and to some extent the “streets” - in both London and NY. Indian employees are being terminated at the same rate and for the same lack of a reason as everyone else. The problem is the garbage human beings wielding power. Not the people trying to feed their families - where, or whomsoever, th | Aug 12 06:11 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | ey may be. | Aug 12 06:11 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | 11 hours ago by Anonymous | Aug 12 06:11 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | | 15 reactions (+4/-11) | Reply | Aug 12 06:11 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Post ID: @a8+1k2cy6p6t | Aug 12 06:11 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | +2 | Aug 12 06:11 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | @OP sorry to hear about your misfortune. Good luck in the future. | Aug 12 06:11 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Under Alvind and the Pipmunks, IBM is the now classic example of GIGO - Garbage In, Garbage Out. | Aug 12 06:11 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Alvind, Krabanaugh and Rob the Slob fill the company with their Indian Mafia cronies and the cr-p keeps coming out and hitting the fan. Corrupt executives reap what you sowed. So let's see some real heavy cuts delivered to CIO, F&O and Consulting happening by August 31. Hire contractors instead. Start a fire sale at Armonk too. Sell off the IBM executive travel jets if they are not already gone. Let Alvind, the Slob and Krapanaugh | Aug 12 06:11 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | take the Greyhound bus to NYC. Cost cutting measures of course... | Aug 12 06:11 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | And the stock price keeps on dropping fast - Vindaloo in Alvind's Loo ! | Aug 12 06:11 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | 12 hours ago by Anonymous | Aug 12 06:11 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | | 4 reactions (+3/-1) | Reply | Aug 12 06:11 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Post ID: @a5+1k2cy6p6t | Aug 12 06:11 |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | What does IBM Marketing even do these days? Other than those id--tic Watson commercials I can't even remember when I last saw an IBM ad. Most people, including potential buyers, have no idea what IBM even does any more. | Aug 12 06:11 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | 12 hours ago by Anonymous | Aug 12 06:11 |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | Post ID: @a4+1k2cy6p6t | Aug 12 06:11 |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | @OP | Aug 12 06:11 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Thank you for your honesty. It's nicer to see that there are still people with principles. | Aug 12 06:11 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | " | Aug 12 06:11 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | "Bill Gates-Backed 'Butter From Carbon' Wins Praise — But The Internet's Reactions Are Not So Smooth" | Aug 12 08:01 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | x https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/bill-gates-backed-butter-carbon-wins-praise-internets-reactions-are-not-so-smooth-1740765 | Aug 12 08:01 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | # it's not butter if it has added ingredients | Aug 12 08:01 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-www.ibtimes.co.uk | Bill Gates-Backed 'Butter From Carbon' Wins Praise — But The Internet's Reactions Are Not So Smooth | IBTimes UK | Aug 12 08:01 | |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | manman I am not convinced that in the present case, the patent monopoly was its own dictionary. For a start the word dictionary is not to be found in the decision of the UPC-LD Hamburg.” You say dictionary, I say lexicon? | Aug 12 12:40 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2025/08/divergence-between-upc-and-epo-on-claim.html?showComment=1754945006599#c8950565424062761427 | Aug 12 12:40 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-ipkitten.blogspot.com | Divergence between the UPC and EPO on claim interpretation and description definitions (Agfa v Gucci, UPC_CFI_278/2023) - The IPKat | Aug 12 12:40 | |
| schestowitz[TR2] | http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2025/08/non-change-epos-guidance-to-examiners.html?showComment=1754932237076#c1703623027824254003 | Aug 12 12:40 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | "Daniel, I think you are a bit hard on "US clients" in general. By now, mine at least are well-aware of the EPO's Gold Standard, why it exists and consequences can flow from it. I recall a moment about 30 years ago (or whenever it was that the EPO decided what to do about the "fatal trap" set by Art 123(2) and (3) EPC). My instructing associate in a US patent monopoly law firm was" | Aug 12 12:40 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-ipkitten.blogspot.com | No change: The EPO's guidance to Examiners on how to apply G1/24 - The IPKat | Aug 12 12:40 | |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2025/08/divergence-between-upc-and-epo-on-claim.html?showComment=1754940156190#c728812299565270916 | Aug 12 17:59 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | "I commented this decision in my blog.<br /><br />Agfa based its infringement action on the fact that the granted description still contained a reference to a “chromatic base coat”. However, the claims had been limited to an “achromatic base coat”, as the search had revealed a novelty destroying document for the original independent claim covering both chromatic and achromatic base coats. " | Aug 12 17:59 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-ipkitten.blogspot.com | Divergence between the UPC and EPO on claim interpretation and description definitions (Agfa v Gucci, UPC_CFI_278/2023) - The IPKat | Aug 12 17:59 | |
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