●● IRC: #techbytes @ Techrights IRC Network: Monday, January 19, 2026 ●● ● Jan 19 [02:44] *Received a CTCP VERSION from Harambe ● Jan 19 [04:32] schestowitz[TR2] https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kf1vfvgb [04:32] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes- ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kf1vfvgb ) [04:32] schestowitz[TR2] " You are laying it thick. None in his right mind believes in the nonsense. [04:32] schestowitz[TR2] 6 hours ago by Anonymous [04:32] schestowitz[TR2] | no reactions | Reply [04:32] schestowitz[TR2] Post ID: @qf+1kf1vfvgb [04:32] schestowitz[TR2] +1 [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. [04:32] schestowitz[TR2] If what you are saying is true, the BOD simply wants more control because they dont 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. [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 BODs growth objectives. Here my predictions: [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. [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 [04:32] schestowitz[TR2] nds of people we should all get to know. [04:32] schestowitz[TR2] Those in the bottom 15% - This is the scariest bucket, as this can beanyone. At first I thought it was low performers based on the framework set in place, but who is to that it isnt about NOT performing against expectations that were never communicate clearly to you. [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. [04:32] schestowitz[TR2] 7 hours ago by StackedRankingsAreOkayPart2 [04:32] schestowitz[TR2] | 3 reactions (+2/-1) | Reply [04:32] schestowitz[TR2] Post ID: @qc+1kf1vfvgb [04:32] schestowitz[TR2] 0 [04:32] schestowitz[TR2] @ph, @q0: I assume, it is the same person. [04:32] schestowitz[TR2] Your comment is trying to divert the discussion from the real problem and shift the blame. [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 [04:32] schestowitz[TR2] treets. [04:32] schestowitz[TR2] 7 hours ago by Anonymous [04:32] schestowitz[TR2] | 2 reactions (+1/-1) | Reply [04:32] schestowitz[TR2] Post ID: @qa+1kf1vfvgb [04:32] schestowitz[TR2] 0 [04:32] 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. Its not to do with India; it is to do with an emerging loss of confidence in managements ability to command. That loss is not good. [04:32] schestowitz[TR2] 8 hours ago by Anonymous [04:32] schestowitz[TR2] | no reactions | Reply [04:32] schestowitz[TR2] Post ID: @q6+1kf1vfvgb [04:32] schestowitz[TR2] +3 [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. [04:32] schestowitz[TR2] 9 hours ago by Anonymous [04:32] schestowitz[TR2] | 3 reactions (+3/-0) | Reply [04:32] schestowitz[TR2] Post ID: @q0+1kf1vfvgb [04:32] schestowitz[TR2] +1 [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. [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 IBMs top executives were warned not to question any aspect of the new policy. [04:32] schestowitz[TR2] " [04:35] schestowitz[TR2] https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kf7gk191 [04:35] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes- ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kf7gk191 ) [04:35] schestowitz[TR2] " [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! [04:35] schestowitz[TR2] Enjoy fu----s! I am glad you are feeling the pain you can always go work elsewhere if you cant take it bi--hes! [04:35] schestowitz[TR2] 48 minutes ago by Anonymous [04:35] schestowitz[TR2] | no reactions | Reply [04:35] schestowitz[TR2] Post ID: @ep+1kf7gk191 [04:35] schestowitz[TR2] 0 [04:35] 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 [04:35] schestowitz[TR2] the need to use your computer! [04:35] schestowitz[TR2] Stop being id--ts! Badge in and go home! [04:35] schestowitz[TR2] 54 minutes ago by Anonymous [04:35] schestowitz[TR2] | no reactions | Reply [04:35] schestowitz[TR2] Post ID: @en+1kf7gk191 [04:35] schestowitz[TR2] +1 [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. 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    • [08:37] schestowitz[TR2] [08:37] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-blog.josefsson.org | Backup of S3 Objects Using rsnapshot Simon Josefsson's blog ● Jan 19 [10:40] schestowitz[TR2] Re: David Guerra [10:40] schestowitz[TR2] > When I access his LinkedIn, the face does not appear [10:40] schestowitz[TR2] > [10:40] schestowitz[TR2] > Can you please right click his face and save it and send me a copy? [10:40] schestowitz[TR2] > [10:40] schestowitz[TR2] > Note that some of the faces are not jurists or wrongdoers. They are [10:40] schestowitz[TR2] > there for completeness. [10:40] schestowitz[TR2] > [10:40] schestowitz[TR2] > Trevor Kitchen and Gerhard Ulrich are in there, they are both human [10:40] schestowitz[TR2] > rights activists. [10:40] schestowitz[TR2] > [10:40] schestowitz[TR2] > The Gobbos are all there for completeness but only Nicole Gobbo (Lawyer [10:40] schestowitz[TR2] > X) is accused of wrongdoing. [10:40] schestowitz[TR2] > [10:40] schestowitz[TR2] > I could create different permutations of the page with different subsets [10:40] schestowitz[TR2] > of faces, for example, by Canton, Jurist/non-Jurist, male/female, [10:40] schestowitz[TR2] > goody/baddy [10:40] schestowitz[TR2] [10:40] schestowitz[TR2] > Do you have any photo of Clytie Siddall? [10:40] schestowitz[TR2] > https://www.facebook.com/clytie.siddall/ [10:40] schestowitz[TR2] Only a very sloppy cartoon shows up. [10:40] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-Log in to Facebook ● Jan 19 [16:01] schestowitz[TR2]
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    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.

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    But Mandrake wasnt 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.

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    • [16:01] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-thenewstack.io | Mageia Harkens Back to the Glory Days of Mandrake Linux - The New Stack ● Jan 19 [17:06] schestowitz[TR2] https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kf7gk191 [17:06] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes- ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kf7gk191 ) [17:06] schestowitz[TR2] " only a naive Indian HR asswi-e would write such a d-mb comment" ● Jan 19 [18:51] schestowitz[TR2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46371868 [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. [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. [18:51] schestowitz[TR2] People who are new to the profession entirely, think that "open" means "you can look inside." Source: my life, unfortunately. [18:51] schestowitz[TR2] > ... that you didn't even get right. [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. [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. [18:51] schestowitz[TR2] ... isn't that a No True Scotsman?" [18:51] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-news.ycombinator.com | You're close: they should have called it "freedom software". Which they wanted t... | Hacker News [18:58] schestowitz[TR2] SUEPO: " [18:58] schestowitz[TR2] Reminder: Invitation to General Assembly TODAY 19 January, 14.00 hrs, MS Teams " ● Jan 19 [19:38] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has left #techbytes [19:57] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has joined #techbytes