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● Jun 18
[13:16]	schestowitz[TR2]	"Dear members, dear colleagues,
[13:16]	schestowitz[TR2]	The Staff Committee elections will take place from tomorrow Tuesday at 08:00 hrs until Thursday at 16:00 hrs. As indicated in our previous communication, it is essential that you cast all 16 of your votes for candidates from the SUEPO team.
[13:16]	schestowitz[TR2]	By doing so, you give our Union the strongest possible chance to be represented across the various bodies. Building a cohesive team that works effectively together is the best foundation for defending your rights. As highlighted in the activity report, the work ahead requires a group of colleagues who can communicate efficiently, distribute tasks appropriately, coordinate closely, and, above all, act as a true team.
[13:16]	schestowitz[TR2]	This year, we are also very proud to welcome several new SUEPO candidates who bring valuable skills and commitment to staff representation. By allocating all 16 of your votes to the SUEPO team, you enable them to fully contribute their potential within a united team dedicated to supporting and representing you.
[13:16]	schestowitz[TR2]	We encourage you to consult the candidate statements (in full, in brief), reach out to the SUEPO candidates, and select 16 of them to support.
[13:16]	schestowitz[TR2]	The Office has repeatedly sought to weaken staff, staff representation, and our Union through various means; divide et impera being its guiding principle. Over time, it has reduced our employment conditions, created divisions among colleagues through differing benefits, undermined staff representation, and shifted the burden of reforms onto successive generations. In this context, a strong, united, and effective Staff Committee is 
[13:16]	schestowitz[TR2]	essential to defend staff interests.
[13:16]	schestowitz[TR2]	We therefore urge you to use all 16 of your votes for the SUEPO team in the Staff Committee elections of 16-18 June, and to encourage your colleagues to participate as well.
[13:16]	schestowitz[TR2]	Experience you can trust."
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[13:58]	schestowitz[TR2]	https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1ktt6x93e#replies
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[13:58]	schestowitz[TR2]	"The bile and vitriol spew hot and thick LOL. But for saying such hurtful things to me, I think I'll steal a phone from one of IBM's conference rooms tomorrow. Maybe two or three. LOL Ooooh I'm so giddy thinking how I'll emulate our executive masters by taking more than I need and stealing for the thrill of it all! Yes! I love working at IBM because nobody knows what the he-l is going on and I can get away with so much. Other than 
[13:58]	schestowitz[TR2]	stealing those phones, I don't think I'll do anything else tomorrow. LOL Maybe I'll flush sponges down all the toilets too.
[13:58]	schestowitz[TR2]	9 hours ago by Anonymous
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[13:58]	schestowitz[TR2]	@18j okay bro you are so cool. Go thief all the supplies you say you do. Hey steal your managers stuff. Bet he won't like you too much anymore. Wait, you already do that so why not fess up ethical tech office pleb golden boy?. Nice swearing, really drives home the creepy thing. Your refusal-to-work and stealing company items and colleagues things probably gets you a lot of internal validation.
[13:58]	schestowitz[TR2]	LOL.
[13:58]	schestowitz[TR2]	10 hours ago by Anonymous
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[13:58]	schestowitz[TR2]	@18j To steal from a Thief is retribution. Thy shalt continue to steal.
[13:58]	schestowitz[TR2]	12 hours ago by Anonymous
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[13:58]	schestowitz[TR2]	@18g Losers like me? My manager thinks I'm great. I get my work done very efficiently by doing just enough, because I know most of it's not worth doing at all. The rest I steal. After all that's what IBM execs teach us to do. Follow the masters. LOL
[13:58]	schestowitz[TR2]	And who TF are you but some hoity toity butt li---r who thinks what IBM does is worthwhile. You'll probably be RAed before me for making waves. Or are you really co-k su-ka RT?
[13:58]	schestowitz[TR2]	15 hours ago by Anonymous
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[13:58]	schestowitz[TR2]	@y3 right - like yay let's steal.
[13:58]	schestowitz[TR2]	Like wtf who hires losers like you. NO industry wants theft. Lying. Not working.
[13:58]	schestowitz[TR2]	Tech grads and engineers are loving watching all of this. Because they would love a chance for something you all took for granted. It's true.
[13:58]	schestowitz[TR2]	16 hours ago by Anonymous
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[13:58]	schestowitz[TR2]	@d7 you need to be offered on site yoga classes to GO to work?
[13:58]	schestowitz[TR2]	Another reason to bring in the 1000's of new tech grads. !!!
[13:58]	schestowitz[TR2]	19 hours ago by Anonymous
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[13:58]	schestowitz[TR2]	@12e
[13:58]	schestowitz[TR2]	Nah. You were young once. Plus they WILL work from the office. And aren't entitled.
[13:58]	schestowitz[TR2]	19 hours ago by Anonymous
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[13:58]	schestowitz[TR2]	@12h: after working few years at IBM, I discovered that advancement is is limited to some ethnic groups (white Anglo-saxon, Indian, some blacks and Hispanics (the stupid one, Yes man ...).
[13:58]	schestowitz[TR2]	Being 40+, I had few choices left. Find another job (start from the beginning) or adjust my behavior.
[13:58]	schestowitz[TR2]	I decided for the latter, While, I mostly fake doing any meaningful work for IBM, I became a trader while being at the office at IBM.
[13:58]	schestowitz[TR2]	It is working very well, I have been making more money on the side, more than the IBM salary. I gave up on the career advancement at IBM. I advance my finance using IBM infrastructure.
[13:58]	schestowitz[TR2]	Thank you IBM.
[13:58]	schestowitz[TR2]	"
[13:58]	schestowitz[TR2]	https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kva8y54s#replies
[13:58]	schestowitz[TR2]	"As did my lovely post about how I embrace theft as retribution at IBM. What a shame.
[13:58]	schestowitz[TR2]	1 hour ago by Anonymous
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[13:58]	schestowitz[TR2]	@d1 oh dearie me !
[13:58]	schestowitz[TR2]	The "Dead Gerbil pushing up the daisies In He-l" comment disappeared...again ! Was that you Mr. Sanctimonious Prevert Executive Troll with the 30 IBM worthless badges ?
[13:58]	schestowitz[TR2]	LOL
[13:58]	schestowitz[TR2]	1 hour ago by Anonymous
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[13:58]	schestowitz[TR2]	Readiness? Is this a joke?
[13:58]	schestowitz[TR2]	1 hour ago by Anonymous
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[13:58]	schestowitz[TR2]	@OP - What a waste of time, reading this garbage.
[13:58]	schestowitz[TR2]	9 hours ago by Anonymous
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[13:58]	schestowitz[TR2]	They can take pride in accounting gimmicks and quantum promises to keep the mirage going.
[13:58]	schestowitz[TR2]	12 hours ago by Anonymous
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[13:58]	schestowitz[TR2]	IBM doesn't get the same attention as the AI high-flyers, but a #19 overall ranking and #11 in AI readiness from the WSJ suggests it's much better positioned for the future than many casual commentators assume. I am grateful that Arvind is our CEO and he is making Mr Gerstner proud. Mr Gerstner is smiling down upon IBM
[13:58]	schestowitz[TR2]	13 hours ago by Anonymous
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[13:58]	schestowitz[TR2]	Yea this readiness is just us saying yes to everything but can we actually produce? Very big difference. Is this another article we paid for?
[13:58]	schestowitz[TR2]	13 hours ago by Anonymous
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[13:58]	schestowitz[TR2]	@OP You used "IBM" and "credibility" in the same sentence. I just pi---d myself laughing.
[13:58]	schestowitz[TR2]	15 hours ago by Anonymous
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[13:58]	schestowitz[TR2]	@OP - Talent Readiness #42 ? Too bad Talent Rejection was not a criteria, IBM would have scored the top spot based on its track record of using innovative ways of ki-ling jobs.
[13:58]	schestowitz[TR2]	"
[13:59]	schestowitz[TR2]	https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1ktwqp9wq#replies
[13:59]	schestowitz[TR2]	"We had our pay raise meetings during the RAs last year.
[13:59]	schestowitz[TR2]	1 hour ago by Anonymous
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[13:59]	schestowitz[TR2]	@14w how about 6 days ?
[13:59]	schestowitz[TR2]	One day for on-boarding, 4 days to work on some Ulta-Secret Complex Quantum AI Research project that no one will ever understand, and one day for off-boarding.
[13:59]	schestowitz[TR2]	Then you can reapply for your job (sorry, it got shipped off to India) or become an employee emertius on LinkedIn. But at least you got the opportunity to work at one of the world's worst companies. And lived to tell about it (on this site).
[13:59]	schestowitz[TR2]	1 hour ago by Anonymous
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[13:59]	schestowitz[TR2]	@14w it will be fine for the company but not for all employees
[13:59]	schestowitz[TR2]	1 hour ago by Anonymous
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[13:59]	schestowitz[TR2]	@jq - what does long term future look like at IBM ? 6 months ?
[13:59]	schestowitz[TR2]	12 hours ago by Anonymous
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[13:59]	schestowitz[TR2]	More proof that RA isn't going this week in the US. 1-on-1s scheduled this week in the US are for ... Pay Raises!
[13:59]	schestowitz[TR2]	"
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● Jun 18
[14:00]	schestowitz[TR2]	https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kvc069kc#replies
[14:00]	schestowitz[TR2]	"
[14:00]	schestowitz[TR2]	From all of us who have been RAed, fu-k you IBM!
[14:00]	schestowitz[TR2]	17 minutes ago by Anonymous
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[14:00]	schestowitz[TR2]	For more than a century, IBM has helped shape the world through innovation, from tabulating machines and mainframes to artificial intelligence, quantum computing, and hybrid cloud.
[14:00]	schestowitz[TR2]	Few companies can claim a legacy spanning 115 years while continuing to reinvent themselves for the future.
[14:00]	schestowitz[TR2]	Congratulations to the employees, retirees, clients, business partners, and leaders who have contributed to this remarkable journey.
[14:00]	schestowitz[TR2]	Here's to 115 years of innovation, resilience, and solving some of the world's toughest challengesand to the next chapter ahead
[14:00]	schestowitz[TR2]	19 minutes ago by Anonymous
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[14:00]	schestowitz[TR2]	@ca if they are lying around, get some network cables and gear too if you can - always good for yard sales and the like. F&O wastes hundreds of thousands of $$ every few years on cabling and network gear which they literally trash.
[14:00]	schestowitz[TR2]	IBM used to literally give away (FREE) the corporate executive furniture to the movers at the site I used to work at. And all of it was in fantastic condition and the movers would resell it at a huge profit (they got it FREE, of course). But the management crooks in IBM Facilities would never sell or give anything to IBM employees. So much for people thinking IBM was a great company to work for. It wasn't, particularly with the out
[14:00]	schestowitz[TR2]	sourcing of jobs.
[14:00]	schestowitz[TR2]	40 minutes ago by Anonymous
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[14:00]	schestowitz[TR2]	@c9 That's a lovely idea. I'll do all three: 115 pages for the symbolism, a ream of white paper for the thrill, and a ream of colored paper for my stretch goal!
[14:00]	schestowitz[TR2]	When the day of my RA comes, and it will no matter how hard I work or how much I accomplish, I'll revel in my supply of papers, sharpies, pencils, and conference phones. I may even set up a hoteling space if I can figure out how to get those things to walk.
[14:00]	schestowitz[TR2]	49 minutes ago by Anonymous
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[14:00]	schestowitz[TR2]	@c8 steal a whole ream of printer paper and you'll be much happier with the result. Why must you count out 115 pages for IBM's 115th anniversary ? It's a case of cheaper by the dozen.
[14:00]	schestowitz[TR2]	Arvind and IBM will steal your job, but you stole a whole ream from the printing room and walked away with in. Bonus points if you can steal a ream of colored paper, rather than plain white paper.
[14:00]	schestowitz[TR2]	1 hour ago by Anonymous
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[14:00]	schestowitz[TR2]	In honor of this anniversary, I will steal 115 pages of printer paper today. Because I'm lazy, I'll use "poor man's AI and robotics" to do the counting by printing out 115 blank pages. That also looks less obvious than pulling out a ream and counting 115 pages. Oy, such deep thinking and planning has already exhausted me. But I guess that's what we do at IBM: THINK.
[14:00]	schestowitz[TR2]	1 hour ago by Anonymous
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[14:00]	schestowitz[TR2]	Bob is 99% based on Anthropic Claude... So, definitely not an IBM product... IBM is paying 100s of millions to Anthropic.
[14:00]	schestowitz[TR2]	People internally are going crazy for Bob, wasting their time and IBM's money with no product gain! It is laughable!
[14:00]	schestowitz[TR2]	1 hour ago by Anonymous
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[14:00]	schestowitz[TR2]	to be honest, from outside ibm nobody knows at all that IBM works in AI, I had to google what the f*u-k was Bob
[14:00]	schestowitz[TR2]	1 hour ago by Anonymous
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[14:00]	schestowitz[TR2]	@OP it will be really interesting to see if Arvind's corrupt curry culture will get IBM to #IBM150 or even #IBM200 !
[14:00]	schestowitz[TR2]	As for their corporate pride - if the leadership of IBM can't even follow their own Business Conduct Guidelines (BCGs), what have they to be proud about ? Worthless IBM Badges ?
[14:00]	schestowitz[TR2]	2 hours ago by Anonymous
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[14:00]	schestowitz[TR2]	IBM is NOT and AI company no mater what they say. Who knows? They MAY have quantum competence. (Probably not.) But this won't be a money maker for years.
[14:00]	schestowitz[TR2]	11 hours ago by Anonymous
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[14:00]	schestowitz[TR2]	@OP what ?? No clown show from Alvind and the Pipmunks ?
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