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| schestowitz[TR2] | https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kf1vfvgb | Jan 19 04:32 |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | " You are laying it thick. None in his right mind believes in the nonsense. | Jan 19 04:32 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | 6 hours ago by Anonymous | Jan 19 04:32 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | | no reactions | Reply | Jan 19 04:32 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Post ID: @qf+1kf1vfvgb | Jan 19 04:32 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | +1 | Jan 19 04:32 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | @q6 This is an interesting insight. Last summer the stock price was in the $250ish range. Remember how a bunch of IBMers were starting to celebrate on LinkedIn when the stock hit $300? Now the price seems to be hanging in there, not moving that far left or right. | Jan 19 04:32 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | If what you are saying is true, the BOD simply wants more control because they don’t believe the ELT and their teams will be able to grow the company to where our stock price is 1.5X to 2X greater than it is now or back to where the company was before Ginni took the reins in 2011 / 2012 (which I believe was $100B). This is where the BOD and large shareholders will make some very serious, uber cash. And they want it yesterday. | Jan 19 04:32 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | The stacked rankings is the first of what I imagine many steps to drive a massive workforce transformation that will support the BOD’s growth objectives. Here my predictions: | Jan 19 04:32 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Those who fall in top 15% - Unlike the good old days where they would be able to jump somewhere else for mo’ money, they will clutch on to this and find a way to work through burnout and stress to hang in there. | Jan 19 04:32 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Those who fall in 75% - This fat belly will slowly get trimmed over time in a prioritized manner. Start with Shared Services first and then slowly gut the GTM teams. This group may have thousands of people who truly did the work to be the top 15% but got passed over due to politics, lack of visibility, etc.. Regardless of the state of the job market, these people will rightfully walk away and create their own path. These are the ki | Jan 19 04:32 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | nds of people we should all get to know. | Jan 19 04:32 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Those in the bottom 15% - This is the scariest bucket, as this can be……anyone. At first I thought it was low performers based on the framework set in place, but who is to that it isn’t about NOT performing against expectations that were never communicate clearly to you. | Jan 19 04:32 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | So there will lots of attrition and RAs in the coming quarters, making room to pay some sweet salaries to folks from other tech, consulting, industries who can make IBM a $100B+ company yesterday. | Jan 19 04:32 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | 7 hours ago by StackedRankingsAreOkayPart2 | Jan 19 04:32 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | | 3 reactions (+2/-1) | Reply | Jan 19 04:32 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Post ID: @qc+1kf1vfvgb | Jan 19 04:32 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | 0 | Jan 19 04:32 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | @ph, @q0: I assume, it is the same person. | Jan 19 04:32 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Your comment is trying to divert the discussion from the real problem and shift the blame. | Jan 19 04:32 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | The real problem is India. Jobs have been snatched away from Americans and given to Indians. In recent years, Indians became arrogant, in many instances, I heard from my Indian colleagues, the same work done by the Americans engineers working the projects I drive can be done by Indians for a fraction of the cost. With the Indian cabal at the top, jobs have been massively outsourced to India, while Americans are thrown away to the s | Jan 19 04:32 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | treets. | Jan 19 04:32 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | 7 hours ago by Anonymous | Jan 19 04:32 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | | 2 reactions (+1/-1) | Reply | Jan 19 04:32 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Post ID: @qa+1kf1vfvgb | Jan 19 04:32 |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | @q0 not until last summer. This board action shook the senior brass up very badly when the board directly took over such details. If you have connections, probe any band A that you know and watch their pained body language as they avert the question. It’s not to do with India; it is to do with an emerging loss of confidence in management’s ability to command. That loss is not good. | Jan 19 04:32 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | 8 hours ago by Anonymous | Jan 19 04:32 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | | no reactions | Reply | Jan 19 04:32 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Post ID: @q6+1kf1vfvgb | Jan 19 04:32 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | +3 | Jan 19 04:32 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | @ph, The last paragraph of your comment is pure nonsense. The board of directors does not get involved in the day to day running of the company. The board set policies and directions. So, if you are trying to absolve the Indian id1t at the top and his cabal, you are failing miserably. | Jan 19 04:32 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | 9 hours ago by Anonymous | Jan 19 04:32 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | | 3 reactions (+3/-0) | Reply | Jan 19 04:32 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Post ID: @q0+1kf1vfvgb | Jan 19 04:32 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | +1 | Jan 19 04:32 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | IBM has been stack ranked every year since the mid-90s. For 3 or 4 of those years, corporate HR declined to impose quotas or distributional guidance but the individual Sr. VPs imposed them on their own in those years. One year, HR challenged a Sr. VP for this and lost resoundingly. I was in management when this started and only recently retired from management, so I had a front row seat. | Jan 19 04:32 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | What is different this year is that the IBM CEO was told that he had no influence over the quotas. The quotas were set directly by the board of directors and IBM’s top executives were warned not to question any aspect of the new policy. | Jan 19 04:32 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | " | Jan 19 04:32 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kf7gk191 | Jan 19 04:35 |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | " | Jan 19 04:35 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Had to laugh… my first 3 lines of management are bi--hing that it is he-l for them to go to the office 3 days a week, in an office that is way too small, not enough conference rooms. Lol! | Jan 19 04:35 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Enjoy fu----s! I am glad you are feeling the pain… you can always go work elsewhere if you can’t take it… bi--hes! | Jan 19 04:35 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | 48 minutes ago by Anonymous | Jan 19 04:35 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | | no reactions | Reply | Jan 19 04:35 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Post ID: @ep+1kf7gk191 | Jan 19 04:35 |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | The few id--ts that commented about 1) badge out and 2) WiFi tracking are totally wrong. There is nothing like that. By the way once your computer or your phone is connected to the IBM network, you get a 24 hours lease for that IP. If you think IBM is tracking how many bytes you download/upload on your WiFi connection to see how much work you do you are fools. Anyway, you could be at the IBM office for meetings only without having | Jan 19 04:35 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | the need to use your computer! | Jan 19 04:35 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Stop being id--ts! Badge in and go home! | Jan 19 04:35 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | 54 minutes ago by Anonymous | Jan 19 04:35 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | | no reactions | Reply | Jan 19 04:35 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Post ID: @en+1kf7gk191 | Jan 19 04:35 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | +1 | Jan 19 04:35 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Confirming badging in/out times are tracked and reported to managers along with the employee's IP address. So the company knows the amount of time you are onsite and using the company wifi. | Jan 19 04:35 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | " | Jan 19 04:35 |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | <li> | Jan 19 08:37 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <h5><a href="https://blog.josefsson.org/2026/01/18/backup-of-s3-objects-using-rsnapshot/">Backup of S3 Objects Using rsnapshot</a></h5> | Jan 19 08:37 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <blockquote> | Jan 19 08:37 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <p>I’ve been using rsnapshot to take backups of around 10 servers and laptops for well over 15 years, and it is a remarkably reliable tool that has proven itself many times. Rsnapshot uses rsync over SSH and maintains a temporal hard-link file pool. Once rsnapshot is configured and running, on the backup server, you get a hardlink farm with directories like this for the remote server: [...] | Jan 19 08:37 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | </p> | Jan 19 08:37 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | </blockquote> | Jan 19 08:37 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | </li> | Jan 19 08:37 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Jan 19 08:37 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-blog.josefsson.org | Backup of S3 Objects Using rsnapshot – Simon Josefsson's blog | Jan 19 08:37 | |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Re: David Guerra | Jan 19 10:40 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > When I access his LinkedIn, the face does not appear | Jan 19 10:40 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > | Jan 19 10:40 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > Can you please right click his face and save it and send me a copy? | Jan 19 10:40 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > | Jan 19 10:40 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > Note that some of the faces are not jurists or wrongdoers. They are | Jan 19 10:40 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > there for completeness. | Jan 19 10:40 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > | Jan 19 10:40 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > Trevor Kitchen and Gerhard Ulrich are in there, they are both human | Jan 19 10:40 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > rights activists. | Jan 19 10:40 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > | Jan 19 10:40 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > The Gobbos are all there for completeness but only Nicole Gobbo (Lawyer | Jan 19 10:40 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > X) is accused of wrongdoing. | Jan 19 10:40 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > | Jan 19 10:40 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > I could create different permutations of the page with different subsets | Jan 19 10:40 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > of faces, for example, by Canton, Jurist/non-Jurist, male/female, | Jan 19 10:40 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > goody/baddy | Jan 19 10:40 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Jan 19 10:40 | |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > Do you have any photo of Clytie Siddall? | Jan 19 10:40 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > https://www.facebook.com/clytie.siddall/ | Jan 19 10:40 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Only a very sloppy cartoon shows up. | Jan 19 10:40 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-Log in to Facebook | Jan 19 10:40 | |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <li> | Jan 19 16:01 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <h5><a href="https://thenewstack.io/mageia-harkens-back-to-the-days-of-mandrake-linux/">Mageia Harkens Back to the Glory Days of Mandrake Linux</a></h5> | Jan 19 16:01 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <blockquote> | Jan 19 16:01 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <p>I remember some of my favorites, one of which was Mandrake Linux. I remember meeting the developers of Mandrake at a Linux convention and thinking they were the coolest of the cool. Those ladies and gents knew how to party, and I joined them often. </p> | Jan 19 16:01 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <p> But Mandrake wasn’t just about having a good time. Mandrake also happened to be one of the first distributions I remember that did a brilliant job of making Linux accessible to the masses; it was easy to use, reliable and fun. </p> | Jan 19 16:01 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | </blockquote> | Jan 19 16:01 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | </li> | Jan 19 16:01 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-thenewstack.io | Mageia Harkens Back to the Glory Days of Mandrake Linux - The New Stack | Jan 19 16:01 | |
| schestowitz[TR2] | https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kf7gk191 | Jan 19 17:06 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes- ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kf7gk191 ) | Jan 19 17:06 | |
| schestowitz[TR2] | " only a naive Indian HR asswi-e would write such a d-mb comment" | Jan 19 17:06 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46371868 | Jan 19 18:51 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | "You're close: they should have called it "freedom software". Which they wanted to, but couldn't, because it was trademarked. Source: I e-mailed richard stallman to ask why they didn't, he replied. | Jan 19 18:51 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | You're welcome to think what you want, but I've had to explain to enough juniors enough times what "open" actually means, so I know what people without any preconceived notions think it means, vs what experts on HN associate with the word after decades in the industry. | Jan 19 18:51 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | People who are new to the profession entirely, think that "open" means "you can look inside." Source: my life, unfortunately. | Jan 19 18:51 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > ... that you didn't even get right. | Jan 19 18:51 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | FYI: this style of conversation won't get anyone to listen to you. And FWIW I was referencing the quip which I'm sure your familiar with. It was tongue in cheek. | Jan 19 18:51 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > The reality is that good programmers put a lot of effort into choosing names and generally are better at it than the population at large. | Jan 19 18:51 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | ... isn't that a No True Scotsman?" | Jan 19 18:51 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-news.ycombinator.com | You're close: they should have called it "freedom software". Which they wanted t... | Hacker News | Jan 19 18:51 | |
| schestowitz[TR2] | SUEPO: " | Jan 19 18:58 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Reminder: Invitation to General Assembly TODAY 19 January, 14.00 hrs, MS Teams " | Jan 19 18:58 |
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