●● IRC: #techbytes @ Techrights IRC Network: Thursday, April 16, 2026 ●● ● Apr 16 [01:17] *Guest42043 (~fantom@freenode-3g4.209.ifb87q.IP) has joined #techbytes [01:18] *FANTOM has quit (Ping timeout: 120 seconds) [01:20] *FANTOM (~fantom@freenode-3g4.209.ifb87q.IP) has joined #techbytes [01:21] *Guest42043 has quit (Ping timeout: 120 seconds) ● Apr 16 [03:35] *FANTOM has quit (Ping timeout: 120 seconds) [03:37] *FANTOM (~fantom@freenode-o96.spj.ifb87q.IP) has joined #techbytes ● Apr 16 [05:55] *rianne_ (~rianne@uwb8s9bfzeyh4.irc) has joined #techbytes [05:55] *asusbox (~rianne@uwb8s9bfzeyh4.irc) has joined #techbytes ● Apr 16 [06:40] *rianne_ has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [06:40] *asusbox has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [06:46] schestowitz[TR3] https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kng5kdgt#replies [06:46] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes- ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kng5kdgt#replies ) [06:46] schestowitz[TR3] "" [06:46] schestowitz[TR3] Yes "dude" DEI is sick and IBM is the sickest of all DEI promoters. I have a DREAM "dude" and you and your hiring by skin color and age and race is not and never will be in it. People like you turned turned IBM into a dumpster fire that smells like the worst slum in India. I would not trust anyone at IBM to clean my toilet bowl. [06:46] schestowitz[TR3] 1 day ago by Anonymous [06:46] schestowitz[TR3] | 5 reactions (+4/-1) | Reply [06:46] schestowitz[TR3] Post ID: @1h5+1kng5kdgt [06:46] schestowitz[TR3] +1 [06:46] schestowitz[TR3] @13z I don't trust the word of a cabinet that has tried to incite race wars on deciding whether or not a company is acting inappropriately. I have both hired and lead teams at IBM, I have taken the "DEI" training, it boiled down to "don't take race, religion, etc into account for hiring or raises/promotions" which is exactly what DEI actually is. Trump got elected and went apeshit over this DEI sh-t then corporations realized they [06:46] schestowitz[TR3] don't have to care about diversity anymore and started gutting them and attacking any movement for equality. It's pretty sick dude... [06:46] schestowitz[TR3] " ● Apr 16 [07:22] schestowitz[TR3] zero, as rated low 15 % [07:22] schestowitz[TR3] meet target, no PIP [07:22] schestowitz[TR3] Could be you. [07:22] schestowitz[TR3] 4 hours ago by 15 [07:22] schestowitz[TR3] | no reactions | Reply [07:22] schestowitz[TR3] Post ID: @r7+1kp1vnzg3 [07:22] schestowitz[TR3] +1 [07:22] schestowitz[TR3] @p7 in Albany they put a lot with low rankings even if ok performers on PIPs. Not getting bonus is the least of what they have to worry about [07:22] schestowitz[TR3] 13 hours ago by Anonymous [07:22] schestowitz[TR3] | 1 reaction (+1/-0) | Reply [07:22] schestowitz[TR3] Post ID: @ph+1kp1vnzg3 [07:22] schestowitz[TR3] 0 [07:22] schestowitz[TR3] I question this post. Everyone's GDP was based on % of Salary. 2xBase% for Top. 1xBase% for core. Zero for bottom. One's manager should have notified their employees regarding.... so there's no "more than expected" because expectations were set long before the payout. Manager's also didn't have an opportunity to fine tune the %'s to employees. So people at the top of core got the same as the bottom of core. I have plenty of good pe [07:22] schestowitz[TR3] ople in a very competitive organization that just happen to be in low because of forced grading curve. I doubt those people are happy getting absolutely nothing. [07:22] schestowitz[TR3] " [07:23] schestowitz[TR3] " in Albany they put a lot with low rankings even if ok performers on PIPs. Not getting bonus is the least of what they have to worry about [07:23] schestowitz[TR3] 13 hours ago by Anonymous [07:23] schestowitz[TR3] | 1 reaction (+1/-0) | Reply [07:23] schestowitz[TR3] Post ID: @ph+1kp1vnzg3 [07:23] schestowitz[TR3] 0 [07:23] schestowitz[TR3] I question this post. Everyone's GDP was based on % of Salary. 2xBase% for Top. 1xBase% for core. Zero for bottom. One's manager should have notified their employees regarding.... so there's no "more than expected" because expectations were set long before the payout. Manager's also didn't have an opportunity to fine tune the %'s to employees. So people at the top of core got the same as the bottom of core. I have plenty of good pe [07:23] schestowitz[TR3] ople in a very competitive organization that just happen to be in low because of forced grading curve. I doubt those people are happy getting absolutely nothing. [07:23] schestowitz[TR3] " [07:23] schestowitz[TR3] https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kp5xa4qr#replies [07:23] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes- ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kp5xa4qr#replies ) [07:23] schestowitz[TR3] " [07:23] schestowitz[TR3] Gerstner was an arrogant S-B. Take your paper you wrote about him with ChatGPT and FLUSH. If you were not there you do not know. People truned around and walked away when they saw him coming. No one wanted to have him meet customers. Robbed IBM for over $400,000,000. laid off well over 100,000 over 18 mos. Bully. Pompous. Greedy. Troll you sure have a lot of time on your hands while you do THINK 40+ than NO ONE cares about and mean [07:23] schestowitz[TR3] s nothing outside the 3 walls (IBM sold 1 of the walls) of IBM. [07:23] schestowitz[TR3] 6 hours ago by Anonymous [07:23] schestowitz[TR3] | 4 reactions (+4/-0) | Reply [07:23] schestowitz[TR3] Post ID: @gs+1kp5xa4qr [07:23] schestowitz[TR3] +3 [07:23] schestowitz[TR3] @gf yes IBM is a power house up sh*t creek thanks to Gerstner (who can't defend himself since he's dead and pushing up the daisies) and Alvind (who can defend himself but who is a total sh1thead and doesn't care do). [07:23] schestowitz[TR3] ' [07:24] schestowitz[TR3] "" [07:24] schestowitz[TR3] who gives a flying f$$k what you think or believe you are reading ? Alvind is nothing more than a piece of rotten camel dung. You can see what people thought of Gerstner on this site. Well, if Alvind were dead today, I am pretty sure there would a long line waiting to sp-t on his corpse at his funeral pyre....and me too. Maybe there will be tickets for the event selling online like hot cakes at Ticketmaster. [07:24] schestowitz[TR3] Let the incompetent imbecile CEO dwell on that too." [07:24] schestowitz[TR3] "the venom is earned. Arvind is a horrible human being whose practices have dehumanized over 40k folks worldwide, with 30k in the US alone. When you cause harm people expect people to push back. That is human nature. [07:24] schestowitz[TR3] Could care less that he is Indian. What a lame deflection. I despised Sam Palmisano almost as much as this arsehat. [07:24] schestowitz[TR3] But immigrants that show only loyalty to their home country, that consistently betray his adopted countrymen, are not to be applauded like the OP insists - who is clearly an Indian apologist gleeful that he has a job that once was once held by an American. He is no friend of Americans anymore more than that walking POS known as Arvind Krishna. [07:24] schestowitz[TR3] 14 hours ago by Arvind dehumanizes Americans [07:24] schestowitz[TR3] | 11 reactions (+11/-0) | Reply [07:24] schestowitz[TR3] Post ID: @fb+1kp5xa4qr [07:24] schestowitz[TR3] +4 [07:24] schestowitz[TR3] Alvin's beholden to shareholders at the expense of employees, much like Trump is beholden to Israel at the expense of Americans [07:24] schestowitz[TR3] " [07:25] schestowitz[TR3] ""this! I tell everyone how much Ibm has ripped me off. Taking my pension. Taking my medical retiree benefits. Laying off my entire team. Replacing everyone with unqualified Indians. [07:25] schestowitz[TR3] I tell it to the folks at Fidelity; I tell it o the people at my investment broker; I tell it to my barber; I tell it to the checkout clerk at the grocery store; I mention it at international conferences to large crowds when I present which is quite often. I remind everybody I know what Ibm has done to Americans and the American dream. I will never stop. [07:25] schestowitz[TR3] After they say "IBM who?" I explain how Arvind and his cronies are like serial rapists. Maybe Arvind really believes that all press is good press; trust me, he's gonna get a lot of it. [07:25] schestowitz[TR3] The word H A T E doesn't do justice to what I now feel. What comes around goes around b i t c h e s. [07:25] schestowitz[TR3] 16 hours ago by Anonymous [07:25] schestowitz[TR3] | 16 reactions (+15/-1) | Reply [07:25] schestowitz[TR3] Post ID: @ey+1kp5xa4qr [07:25] schestowitz[TR3] +15 [07:25] schestowitz[TR3] @OP dude, you don't get it - actions have consequences. Arvind has laid off tens of thousands of high achievers since '22 - and now we all hate his fu--ing guts. And he dumped us into the worst job market of the generation. [07:25] schestowitz[TR3] This isn't going to end well for IBM. You laid us off because we earned too much because of the promotions you gave us because we were the best of the best - and now are we-ponized against you. This is the first time in history that there are more former IBMers all of whom hate IBM then there are current IBMers (80% of those are all in India) - and without good jobs we have nothing but time. [07:25] schestowitz[TR3] 16 hours ago by ByeBigBlue [07:25] schestowitz[TR3] | 15 reactions (+15/-0) | Reply [07:25] schestowitz[TR3] Post ID: @ew+1kp5xa4qr [07:25] schestowitz[TR3] +24 [07:25] schestowitz[TR3] @ee you are too much, little Indian troll man. I am sure you are delighted that Arvind has handed the keys of this once great company to you and your countrymen. Sure. [07:25] schestowitz[TR3] But you get what you pay for. Blind obedience is not the same as insight; the execs do not really need people like you who just parrot back what they already believe. What they need are real experts willing to stand up and speak truth. This is not you. These are the people he liquidated. [07:25] schestowitz[TR3] Arvind did not make "hard choices" - he sold out IBM and America. He made a quick buck but made IBM a qualitatively worse place than before he started. You cannot cut to success; you must invest. Arvind has liquidated top talent to temporarily boost the stock price. It is falling like a brick because IBM doesn't do much anymore - Arvind made sure of that. You can fool some of the investors some of the time but not all of the time. [07:25] schestowitz[TR3] The correction has already started. I will laugh at the grave of Big Blue and maybe leave something behind so that some flowers will bloom. As to Arvind, he is a monster and I hope he burns forever in he-l and anyone who supports him. [07:25] schestowitz[TR3] "and who exactly is gonna stop the hate and vitriol towards Alvind and his Pipmunks ? You and which army of losers ? Alvind gets everything he has been responsible for and maybe more for the layoffs he has orchestrated in the US. [07:25] schestowitz[TR3] A miserable punk from IBM HR like you ain't gonna stop anything that this creep has released into the world. [07:25] schestowitz[TR3] 21 hours ago by Anonymous [07:25] schestowitz[TR3] | 13 reactions (+12/-1) | Reply [07:25] schestowitz[TR3] Post ID: @dz+1kp5xa4qr [07:25] schestowitz[TR3] +16 [07:25] schestowitz[TR3] @cd [07:25] schestowitz[TR3] when you obtain some integrity only then will you be treated with respect [07:25] schestowitz[TR3] he did squat, the engineers did the work [07:25] schestowitz[TR3] he just took most of the profits [07:25] schestowitz[TR3] which sounds remarkably like a parasite [07:25] schestowitz[TR3] " [07:26] schestowitz[TR3] https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kp63bh9y#replies [07:26] schestowitz[TR3] " [07:26] schestowitz[TR3] well now we know [07:26] schestowitz[TR3] what happens when we flush in the US [07:26] schestowitz[TR3] where the bowl's contents go [07:26] schestowitz[TR3] 4 hours ago by Anonymous [07:26] schestowitz[TR3] | 1 reaction (+1/-0) | Reply [07:26] schestowitz[TR3] Post ID: @gx+1kp63bh9y [07:26] schestowitz[TR3] +11 [07:26] schestowitz[TR3] Somewhere in India, 439 people are simultaneously being hired. [07:26] schestowitz[TR3] 13 hours ago by Anonymous [07:26] schestowitz[TR3] | 11 reactions (+11/-0) | Reply [07:26] schestowitz[TR3] Post ID: @f5+1kp63bh9y [07:26] schestowitz[TR3] +7 [07:26] schestowitz[TR3] @a6 [07:26] schestowitz[TR3] cheapening everything to fund the skillless top [07:26] schestowitz[TR3] maybe they will use pygmies, cannibals, and eskimos next [07:26] schestowitz[TR3] this obviously can't continue and will crash [07:26] schestowitz[TR3] why would members of society voluntarily work with or support [07:26] schestowitz[TR3] a bunch of non useful wealthy parasites [07:26] schestowitz[TR3] it is not beneficial to the society as a whole [07:26] schestowitz[TR3] 1 day ago by Anonymous [07:26] schestowitz[TR3] | 9 reactions (+8/-1) | Reply [07:26] schestowitz[TR3] Post ID: @b3+1kp63bh9y [07:26] schestowitz[TR3] +5 [07:26] schestowitz[TR3] Are you sure this layoff is not destined for India ? [07:26] schestowitz[TR3] 1 day ago by Anonymous [07:26] schestowitz[TR3] | 7 reactions (+6/-1) | Reply [07:26] schestowitz[TR3] Post ID: @b2+1kp63bh9y [07:26] schestowitz[TR3] +1 [07:26] schestowitz[TR3] Just as long as Albany is safe who gives a f [07:26] schestowitz[TR3] " [07:26] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes- ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kp63bh9y#replies ) ● Apr 16 [08:07] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has joined #techbytes [08:10] *psydruid has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) ● Apr 16 [09:48] *s has quit (Quit: Konversation terminated!) 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