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| schestowitz[TR2] | " | Sep 20 03:11 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Make India great again | Sep 20 03:11 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | 48 minutes ago by Anonymous | Sep 20 03:11 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | | 3 reactions (+3/-0) | Sep 20 03:11 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Post ID: @1nuk+1uARCw3F | Sep 20 03:11 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | +4 | Sep 20 03:11 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | It sure sounds like AK has taken the Kyndryl model to heart. 8% on shore for services. NOTE manufacturing wouldn’t be included in that number as plants and equipment are sunk costs. Everything else near or off shore. If true, that says he’s aiming for a USA headcount of 288 x .08 = 23k PLUS manufacturing (POK, RST, AUSTIN, Tucson, Albany, and perhaps the labs) so maybe 10-12k = 35k total | Sep 20 03:11 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | This seems to square with the layoffs this week 48k starting and 38k ending | Sep 20 03:11 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | 5 hours ago by Anonymous | Sep 20 03:11 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | | 4 reactions (+4/-0) | Sep 20 03:11 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Post ID: @ccu+1uARCw3F | Sep 20 03:11 |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | AK IBM CEO was hired in the first place to clean up that IBM mess by replacing older Americans with Indians. | Sep 20 03:11 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | 6 hours ago by Anonymous | Sep 20 03:11 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | | 11 reactions (+11/-0) | Sep 20 03:11 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Post ID: @jsn+1uARCw3F | Sep 20 03:11 |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | Makes sense: IBM dinosaurs cost too much | Sep 20 03:11 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | 6 hours ago by Anonymous | Sep 20 03:11 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | | 9 reactions (+7/-2) | Sep 20 03:11 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Post ID: @gey+1uARCw3F | Sep 20 03:11 |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | The article says: “AK wants to replace older (more expensive) Americans with younger (cheaper) Indian employees “ | Sep 20 03:11 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | " | Sep 20 03:11 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1uAnHnJt | Sep 20 03:11 |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | 10+ years, CIO FnO, Band 9. Heard through the grapevine it's a lot of Band 10's and DE's and no management that makes the decisions. Super top heavy management who just crunch numbers and treat everyone who does the work as just another number. sickening. And they want to move everything to India. They have a hiring increase there. | Sep 20 03:11 |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | " | Sep 20 03:12 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Every manager I worked with in my day at FnO was scared of making decisions. Either they went up to Cesar for even the smallest item or never made the decision causing delays. | Sep 20 03:12 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | 1 hour ago by Anonymous | Sep 20 03:12 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | | 2 reactions (+2/-0) | Sep 20 03:12 |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | +2 | Sep 20 03:12 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | it's fail fast and fail often and no recovery from here on ... and it could not happen to a nicer set of duds at CIO FnO. They are nothing but a bunch of arrogant turds in the toilet bowl of IBM life. | Sep 20 03:12 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Hasta La Vista, Baby ! | Sep 20 03:12 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | 1 hour ago by Anonymous | Sep 20 03:12 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | | 2 reactions (+2/-0) | Sep 20 03:12 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Post ID: @1pub+1uAnHnJt | Sep 20 03:12 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | +8 | Sep 20 03:12 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Plus, I've worked with my replacement and they are duds. | Sep 20 03:12 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | " | Sep 20 03:12 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Re: latest draft | Sep 20 04:00 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > Over the past few days it's become something of a small booklet or | Sep 20 04:00 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > mini-manifesto. Comments from proofreaders have been observed and | Sep 20 04:00 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > gratefully incorporated. | Sep 20 04:00 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > Any further thoughts are welcome | Sep 20 04:00 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | >> That's a great article. Thank you so much! | Sep 20 04:22 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > | Sep 20 04:22 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | >> I wanted to say the site has been called Tech Rights since 2010 when our sys | Sep 20 04:22 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | >> admin Tracy suggested the name. It's flexible enough to encapsulate a broad | Sep 20 04:22 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | >> range of issues. | Sep 20 04:22 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > | Sep 20 04:22 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > Thanks for positive feedback. If Rianne sends me some image | Sep 20 04:22 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > suggestions I'll add them with quote captions. Then it's ready. | Sep 20 04:22 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Yes, she is on it! :-) | Sep 20 04:22 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Remember we filed 2 lawsuits (we needed to) and this week is the wedding anniversary, so hopefully this weekend she can get back to you. | Sep 20 04:22 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Sep 20 04:22 | |
| schestowitz[TR2] | >> I guess we've become a thorn on the side of some companies. :) | Sep 20 04:22 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > | Sep 20 04:22 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > I've been thinking about forms of spiritual warfare and active writing | Sep 20 04:22 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > (word as sword, belief as armour etc). Not to make being a "thorn in | Sep 20 04:22 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > the side" of rotten companies" an end in itself, or go looking for a | Sep 20 04:22 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > fight, but to be such a Socratic irritant to bad ideas and behaviours | Sep 20 04:22 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > that enemies want to wash their hands and distance themselves from | Sep 20 04:22 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > those ideas. Force them to decamp and re-frame. Keep attacking the | Sep 20 04:22 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > ground on which they place their flag (domination), until there's | Sep 20 04:22 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > nowhere left to put it. | Sep 20 04:22 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Sometimes there are small signs that they listen and react. This is an example from 2 hours ago: | Sep 20 04:22 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | https://www.complex.com/pop-culture/a/charlie-stern/linux-interview-profile-ai-joe-biden-new-york-fashion-week as recently explained in http://techrights.org/n/2024/09/14/Pushing_Nonsense_Using_the_Brand_Linux.shtml | Sep 20 04:22 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | this headline suggests they respond to TR | Sep 20 04:22 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > Have you ever read Wasp by E. F. Russell? It's the engineers (in the | Sep 20 04:22 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > military sense) handbook and goes great with The Good Soldier Svejk (J | Sep 20 04:22 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > Hasek) as a guide to lethal clowning. | Sep 20 04:22 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | This one I've never heard of. | Sep 20 04:22 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > Someone recently asked me if I am "anti-capitalist", and with some | Sep 20 04:22 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > honest thought I had to reply "No. I'm just anti-asshole". | Sep 20 04:22 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > | Sep 20 04:22 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > cheers, | Sep 20 04:22 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | The "anti-capitalist" thing is bait and straw man. It's like "did you stop beating up your wife?" | Sep 20 04:22 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | I am reading your latest draft very carefully right now. | Sep 20 04:22 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | One good thing about feedback, IME, is that it prompts to add more paragraphs to an existing essay without removing/detracting from existing work, it adds clarity or context | Sep 20 04:22 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | When I did my thesis 20 years ago I really detested having to remove entire paragraph that I had worked on (because the supervisor always knew better). | Sep 20 04:22 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | MSM turned out to be a lot like this too (I used to write for news sites till 2008). | Sep 20 04:22 |
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| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-www.complex.com | At New York Fashion Week With Internet Personality Linux (Not The Software) | Sep 20 04:22 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-techrights.org | Techrights — Pushing Nonsense Using the Brand "Linux" | Sep 20 04:22 | |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | CS expert: | Sep 20 04:50 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | "out for the day starting a couple hours from now, will re-check andy's essay | Sep 20 04:50 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | tomorrow. justskimming it looks more polished and better flow" | Sep 20 04:50 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Rianne and A., | Sep 20 04:50 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Maybe the book can be partitioned into ~20 parts (index added at the end) and images chosen for each part as we go along? | Sep 20 04:50 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | I usually use https://www.publicdomainpictures.net/ these days (old sources of free images perished since 2005). | Sep 20 04:50 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | At the moment I am not finding any typos (yet). It's text I can deeply relate to. | Sep 20 04:50 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | br | Sep 20 04:50 |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1uBYc7uh | Sep 20 05:16 |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | " | Sep 20 05:16 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Apptio is a symtom of what is wrong with the CIO and IBM | Sep 20 05:16 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | IBM acquired Apptio, which they considered to be among the top five or six options they reviewed. It’s likely that Apptio’s sales team painted a very rosy picture for our executives, promising unprecedented transparency into team operations, the ability to identify inefficient teams, and traceability from high-level executive OKRs down to individual Jira tickets. Naturally, Arvind was thrilled at the prospect of this newfound i | Sep 20 05:16 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | nsight, perhaps even imagining it would make workforce reductions easier to manage. | Sep 20 05:16 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | However, it seems no one involved in the decision-making process conducted a proper user experience study with objective feedback. Now, almost 13 months post-acquisition, Apptio still lacks user role management, leaving sensitive financial information accessible to everyone. This oversight has forced IBM to restrict access solely to management, a far cry from the comprehensive visibility and utility the leadership envisioned and so | Sep 20 05:16 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | ld to lower-level managers like myself. | Sep 20 05:16 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | IBM does this time and time again with so many companies we buy. I know rank and file employees are frustrated with the tools we take away and are forced to use. But I am helpless to do anything about it. | Sep 20 05:16 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | " | Sep 20 05:16 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1uBYc7uh | Sep 20 05:16 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1uBczHiR | Sep 20 05:17 |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | " | Sep 20 05:17 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | We still don’t know what the target number is? | Sep 20 05:17 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | It’s happening everywhere. It would seem, based on anecdotal evidence, the longer you were at IBM, the more experienced and competent you are, it’s more likely that you will be hit. Some colleagues report their teams are being gutted. None of it makes any sense to me. I can’t even imagine the fallout. Good luck to all of us. | Sep 20 05:17 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | " | Sep 20 05:17 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | " | Sep 20 05:18 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | You want an explanation that makes sense? | Sep 20 05:18 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | IBM is out of money. | Sep 20 05:18 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | There's your explanation. As IBM cut staff and sold off division after division, they ran themselves out of breathing room to manage their finances. In other words, they can't cook the books anymore. | Sep 20 05:18 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | IBM now has to act like any startup, because they now have the finances of a startup. Every employee has to pull their weight (financially), and if they can't make it they're out the door. | Sep 20 05:18 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | 49 minutes ago by Anonymous | Sep 20 05:18 |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | Post ID: @loi+1uBczHiR | Sep 20 05:18 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | +1 | Sep 20 05:18 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | It's not a target number, but a percentage. | Sep 20 05:18 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | 1 hour ago by Anonymous | Sep 20 05:18 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | | 1 reaction (+1/-0) | Sep 20 05:18 |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | +3 | Sep 20 05:18 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | I want to get laid off. It's better than the bench pip I'll get. | Sep 20 05:18 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | " | Sep 20 05:18 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | "Microsoft launches Office LTSC 2024" | Sep 20 05:40 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | x https://www.theregister.com/2024/09/18/microsoft_office_ltsc_2024/ | Sep 20 05:40 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | # it /is/ a campaign against open formats and self-sufficiency | Sep 20 05:40 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-www.theregister.com | Microsoft launches Office LTSC 2024 • The Register | Sep 20 05:40 | |
| schestowitz[TR2] | x https://www.voanews.com/a/gates-foundation-funding-needed-to-save-children-from-climate-induced-hunger-/7788609.html | Sep 20 05:40 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-www.voanews.com | Gates Foundation: Funding needed to save children from climate-induced hunger | Sep 20 05:40 | |
| schestowitz[TR2] | "Microsoft, BlackRock to launch $30 billion fund for AI infrastructure" | Sep 20 05:40 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | x https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/artificial-intelligence/microsoft-blackrock-to-launch-30-bln-fund-for-ai-infrastructure/articleshow/113442197.cms | Sep 20 05:40 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-economictimes.indiatimes.com | Microsoft: Microsoft, BlackRock to launch $30 billion fund for AI infrastructure - The Economic Times | Sep 20 05:40 | |
| schestowitz[TR2] | "Bill Gates tells Vox why there are still so many hungry children in the world" | Sep 20 05:40 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | x https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/372672/bill-gates-interview-child-hunger-global-health | Sep 20 05:40 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | # bill sez | Sep 20 05:40 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-Bill Gates tells Vox why there are still so many hungry children in the world | Vox | Sep 20 05:40 | |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | <li> | Sep 20 06:58 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <h5><a href="https://siliconangle.com/2024/09/18/risc-v-guardian-sifive-unveils-new-chip-designs-low-powered-ai-edge/">RISC-V guardian SiFive unveils new chip designs for low-powered AI at the edge</a></h5> | Sep 20 06:58 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <blockquote> | Sep 20 06:58 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <p>With the new blueprints, SiFive says, companies will be able to accelerate the development of RISC-V-based chips that are customized for AI workloads in data centers, autonomous machines and at the network edge. </p> | Sep 20 06:58 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | </blockquote> | Sep 20 06:58 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | </li> | Sep 20 06:58 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-RISC-V guardian SiFive unveils new chip designs for low-powered AI at the edge - SiliconANGLE | Sep 20 06:58 | |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | <li> | Sep 20 09:08 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <h5><a href="https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2024/09/18/curl-8-10-1/">curl 8.10.1</a></h5> | Sep 20 09:08 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <blockquote> | Sep 20 09:08 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <p>Welcome to this follow-up patch release, just a week after we shipped 8.10.0. A bunch of bugfixes. </p> | Sep 20 09:08 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | </blockquote> | Sep 20 09:08 |
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| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-curl 8.10.1 | daniel.haxx.se | Sep 20 09:08 | |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1uAZdaaG | Sep 20 10:04 |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | " | Sep 20 10:04 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Thousands of jobs? Try hundreds of thousands of jobs, spread over 35 years. | Sep 20 10:04 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | The unfortunate employees who are still with the company are seeing the aftermath of a decades-long process that became the core of a corporate culture. You cannot cut your way to prosperity. Only through the buildup of wealth can a company be prosperous. | Sep 20 10:04 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | In IBM's defense, they tried (weakly) to take the savings from all those fired employees to do something productive. Not being able to develop anything (anything!) internally, the executives bought up various companies over the years to keep up the product catalog. Most of those acquisitions have not amounted to much. | Sep 20 10:04 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | So that's where things are at...those who are still there are just trying to live another day. | Sep 20 10:04 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | 4 hours ago by Anonymous | Sep 20 10:04 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | | 3 reactions (+3/-0) | Sep 20 10:04 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Post ID: @1sbr+1uAZdaaG | Sep 20 10:04 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | +2 | Sep 20 10:04 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | @rdu | Sep 20 10:04 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | A failed company is still failed company in anyone's book. Not even an eff-up CEO like Alvind can fix that. It's another blemish on his already pathetic record. Expect him to be bending over on the Armonk lawn grabbing his ankles when the time comes. | Sep 20 10:04 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | 8 hours ago by Anonymous | Sep 20 10:04 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | | 2 reactions (+2/-0) | Sep 20 10:04 |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | +7 | Sep 20 10:04 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | heard from a reliable source (executive) that the CIO will continue to thin out the ranks through mid 2025 and these plans are underway.. not sure what the strategy will be but there wont be enough folks to carry it out.. Guess the offshore strategy will march forward, and when it fails, we will get a new CEO that tries something else but alvind will go down as the turnaround CEO.... IBM is always playing catch up, never leading in | Sep 20 10:04 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | anything, and their AI product is severely lacking the competition.. i dont see how they bounce back from this.. | Sep 20 10:04 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | " | Sep 20 10:04 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1uAnHnJt | Sep 20 10:05 |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | " | Sep 20 10:05 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Every manager I worked with in my day at FnO was scared of making decisions. Either they went up to Cesar for even the smallest item or never made the decision causing delays. | Sep 20 10:05 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | 8 hours ago by Anonymous | Sep 20 10:05 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | | 5 reactions (+5/-0) | Sep 20 10:05 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Post ID: @1vsg+1uAnHnJt | Sep 20 10:05 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | +5 | Sep 20 10:05 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | it's fail fast and fail often and no recovery from here on ... and it could not happen to a nicer set of duds at CIO FnO. They are nothing but a bunch of arrogant turds in the toilet bowl of IBM life. | Sep 20 10:05 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Hasta La Vista, Baby ! | Sep 20 10:05 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | 8 hours ago by Anonymous | Sep 20 10:05 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | | 5 reactions (+5/-0) | Sep 20 10:05 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Post ID: @1pub+1uAnHnJt | Sep 20 10:05 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | +11 | Sep 20 10:05 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Plus, I've worked with my replacement and they are duds. | Sep 20 10:05 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | " | Sep 20 10:05 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1uARCw3F | Sep 20 10:06 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | " Why IBM does not move headquarters to a cheaper country or region if the cost so important？ | Sep 20 10:06 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Obviously they're only thinking about their own interests rather than the company's. | Sep 20 10:06 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | IBM will never have a leader like Gerstner again, nor will it have a future. " | Sep 20 10:06 |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1uApmqCy | Sep 20 10:08 |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | " | Sep 20 10:08 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | AK said: “Dinosaurs rejects from IBM will end up working at McDonald’s “ | Sep 20 10:08 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | 7 hours ago by Anonymous | Sep 20 10:08 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | | 4 reactions (+3/-1) | Sep 20 10:08 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Post ID: @1zlf+1uApmqCy | Sep 20 10:08 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | +5 | Sep 20 10:08 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | @xrl | Sep 20 10:08 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Pretty soon, AK is gonna say "too many cheap and incompetent Indians running the IBM sh*tshow into the ground. Can you hire me some cheap Africans instead ? With all the imaginary AI running, they don't need to do much work and I can pay them even less than Indians." | Sep 20 10:08 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | 8 hours ago by Anonymous | Sep 20 10:08 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | | 5 reactions (+5/-0) | Sep 20 10:08 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Post ID: @1ywl+1uApmqCy | Sep 20 10:08 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | +9 | Sep 20 10:08 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | AK said :”Too many expensive IBM dinosaurs” | Sep 20 10:08 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | 18 hours ago by Anonymous | Sep 20 10:08 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | | 11 reactions (+10/-1) | Sep 20 10:08 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Post ID: @xrl+1uApmqCy | Sep 20 10:08 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | +8 | Sep 20 10:08 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | AK said: “I will replace aging d_inosaurs with younger cheaper H1Bs; it’s just financial business “ | Sep 20 10:08 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | 19 hours ago by Anonymous | Sep 20 10:08 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | | 14 reactions (+11/-3) | Sep 20 10:08 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Post ID: @hhp+1uApmqCy | Sep 20 10:08 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | +7 | Sep 20 10:08 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | They totally can, and have, RAed people who joined within 12 months. | Sep 20 10:08 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | 20 hours ago by Anonymous | Sep 20 10:08 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | | 7 reactions (+7/-0) | Sep 20 10:08 |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | +14 | Sep 20 10:08 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Why don’t they focus on the dead weight middle management ? They’re just glorified administrators who are incapable of doing any real work. | Sep 20 10:08 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | They’re good at scheduling meetings and using worn out buzz words and demanding we “learn new skills” while most of them probably are incapable of doing basic excel functions | Sep 20 10:08 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | 21 hours ago by Anonymous | Sep 20 10:08 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | | 18 reactions (+16/-2) | Sep 20 10:08 |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | +12 | Sep 20 10:08 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | It's a real shame that IBM isn't led by a LLM. Obviously not one of ours - but AK really doesn't add anything that a markov chain couldn't replace him with for a fraction of his bonus. | Sep 20 10:08 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | 1 day ago by Anonymous | Sep 20 10:08 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | | 14 reactions (+13/-1) | Sep 20 10:08 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Post ID: @xql+1uApmqCy | Sep 20 10:08 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | +16 | Sep 20 10:08 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | The people laying you off are 5 levels above you and see you as a line in an Excel sheet. They see you merely as cost, rather than what you achieve for the company. And when, in 12 months time, when we're making less money - they'll fire more vital 'costs' in response. IBM are experts at repeatedly cannibalising itself to give the perception of long profitability. | Sep 20 10:08 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | It can't last forever, but the markets only see last quarter and next quarter. We're led by that, rather than anyone with any vision. | Sep 20 10:08 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | 1 day ago by Anonymous | Sep 20 10:08 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | | 16 reactions (+16/-0) | Sep 20 10:08 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Post ID: @jbo+1uApmqCy | Sep 20 10:08 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | +5 | Sep 20 10:08 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | They can’t generally RA anyone who joined within 12 months. Also the experienced employees are probably higher bands, so $$$ | Sep 20 10:08 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | " | Sep 20 10:08 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1uAFfScb | Sep 20 10:09 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | " | Sep 20 10:09 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Give it time, it will eventually happen. Managers with zero or few direct reports are sometimes (but not always) given a choice: Switch to a non-managerial position of equal or possibly even lower band, or take their chances. If they take their chances, they are usually RA'd at the next quarter. | Sep 20 10:09 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | 8 hours ago by Anonymous | Sep 20 10:09 |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | +2 | Sep 20 10:09 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | What surprise that the IBM US old boys and girls network is still going strong in IBM CIO ! Same old collusion as it always was for these managers. | Sep 20 10:09 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | However, the managers will have fewer reports (or no reports) to do the job in less than 30 days. Panic setting in ?? | Sep 20 10:09 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | And... they should be ready for the axe when it comes down again, because Alvind is gonna make sure the blade is going to sweep lower and cut more heads in the next round. You can run but you cannot hide, so get out while you still can with your heads and limbs intact. | Sep 20 10:09 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | It's corporate "Halloween" being acted out for CIO by the psycho CEO. With as cast of thousand clueless CIO managers. | Sep 20 10:09 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | 23 hours ago by Anonymous | Sep 20 10:09 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | | 2 reactions (+2/-0) | Sep 20 10:09 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Post ID: @iff+1uAFfScb | Sep 20 10:09 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | +6 | Sep 20 10:09 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | The ataboy network. | Sep 20 10:09 |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1utXXZvD | Sep 20 10:09 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | https://pensionrights.org/resource/what-happens-when-a-pension-is-transferred-to-an-insurance-company/ | Sep 20 10:09 |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1uy3E7Px | Sep 20 10:10 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | " | Sep 20 10:10 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | You’re right, corporations don’t have a soul. Most people in today’s world have the same mentality as that comment that asked why you’d stay at a company for 26 years. I just passed my 25th anniversary this year and the number of teams and projects I’ve been on have varied so much it was almost like I worked at 10 different companies. I think what surprises me more is that there are people like me who chose to stay with I | Sep 20 10:10 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | BM despite getting paid in peanuts compared to moving around. I guess I’m just lazy :) | Sep 20 10:10 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | 11 hours ago by Lazy IBMer | Sep 20 10:10 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | | 1 reaction (+1/-0) | Sep 20 10:10 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Post ID: @2icn+1uy3E7Px | Sep 20 10:10 |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | I really do not want to sound offensive. I understand getting laid off is a stressful thing. But, why did you stay at IBM for such a long time, i.e., 26 years? There have been so many good new companies that have risen during that time. Why did you never switch and try to gain some new different experience? Maybe you preferred to stay in your comfort zone too long? | Sep 20 10:10 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Again sorry about all those people getting laid off, but I really believe staying 26 years in one company is way too long, especially knowing that the company has not been doing very well over the past few decades. | Sep 20 10:10 |
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| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-pensionrights.org | What happens when a pension is transferred to an insurance company? - Pension Rights Center | Sep 20 10:10 | |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1use0sUm | Sep 20 10:10 |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | Too bad so many people are impacted, I remember having to let people go in the 90's and just this week. I've had, like many people on this forum to say goodbye to many friends that I've worked with over the years. Very sad days .... good luck to everyone. | Sep 20 10:10 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | 10 hours ago by Hoping4btrdays | Sep 20 10:10 |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | IBM did a 360 | Sep 20 10:10 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Is this a reference to mainframe? | Sep 20 10:10 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Or that IBM spun around and we ended up exactly where we started? | Sep 20 10:10 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | 16 hours ago by Anonymous | Sep 20 10:10 |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | +1 | Sep 20 10:10 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | I am hearing IBM is targeting bands 8 and 9 for the layoffs. This might explain why they are only hiring at band 7 or less in the global markets. Guessing each of the market General Managers have known about this RA for quite some time and that is why the band 7 or lower hire mandate was in place. | Sep 20 10:10 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Saw where RAs this week is under the code name of Falcon. Some jobs are moving to India as well. | Sep 20 10:10 |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | <li> | Sep 20 10:26 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <h5><a href="https://linuxiac.com/gnome-47-desktop-environment/">GNOME 47 Desktop Environment Released, Here’s What’s New</a></h5> | Sep 20 10:26 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <blockquote> | Sep 20 10:26 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <p>Six months after the launch of version 46, GNOME 47 “Denver” was released today and is now available for anyone interested in trying it. Like the recent versions, it doesn’t introduce earth-shattering changes but offers a solid build on top of the already available ones. </p> | Sep 20 10:26 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <p> Of course, GNOME 47 brings enough new stuff to improve its overall user experience and functionality, making this new desktop environment version worth updating for all its users. Let’s take a look at what’s new. </p> | Sep 20 10:26 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | </blockquote> | Sep 20 10:26 |
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| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-linuxiac.com | GNOME 47 Desktop Environment Released, Here’s What’s New | Sep 20 10:26 | |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <li> | Sep 20 12:18 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <h5><a href="https://linuxiac.com/sparky-7-5-drops-with-updated-packages/">Sparky 7.5 Drops with Updated Packages</a></h5> | Sep 20 12:18 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <blockquote> | Sep 20 12:18 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <p>The team behind the lightweight Debian-based Linux distro Sparky announced the release of version 7.5, the fifth update in the Sparky 7 “Orion Belt” series. </p> | Sep 20 12:18 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <p> Based on and fully compatible with Debian 12 “Bookworm,” Sparky 7.5 offers a stable and reliable OS that can run efficiently on both new and old hardware and offers various desktop environments, making it a customizable choice for different tastes and preferences. </p> | Sep 20 12:18 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | </blockquote> | Sep 20 12:18 |
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| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-linuxiac.com | Sparky 7.5 Drops with Updated Packages | Sep 20 12:18 | |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1uBYc7uh | Sep 20 13:23 |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | " | Sep 20 13:23 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Apptio is a scam product - it was installed in the IBM CIO office as a tool in 2023 to identify and lay off productive employees, while keeping the unproductive CIO managers and bootlickers safe. The Chinese PM in the CIO office could not even properly explain the results of the tool at demos. The CIO fools were never smart enough to figure that they were being taken for a ride. Happens all the time when you have fools running the | Sep 20 13:23 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | corner offices. | Sep 20 13:23 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | And so, another seller got rich at Alvin's expense since IBM spent $4.6 Billion (yes Billion !) buying Apptio. As they say, money talks and BS walks. | Sep 20 13:23 |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1uBbOjMq | Sep 20 17:24 |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | " | Sep 20 17:24 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | I wonder what would have happened if IBM didn't sc--w up by overpromising Watson, and instead poured as much resources into it as it did into blockchain. | Sep 20 17:24 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | 23 minutes ago by Anonymous | Sep 20 17:24 |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | Post ID: @cmp+1uBbOjMq | Sep 20 17:24 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | +2 | Sep 20 17:24 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | IBM isn't really going all in on AI. Look, we don't have a single product internally that's able to do the jobs of the people we laid off earlier this year. AskHR is a joke; AskIbm is a technology demo that does not do a single useful thing - and is completely hampered by stinginess and a lack of imagination. The latter su-ks beyond all belief. | Sep 20 17:24 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Arvind is all-in on moving as many jobs as he can, including more jobs than he should, to India. AI allows him to generate propaganda for technology we do not yet have, to bump the stock price up while he executes his real strategy. He has no imagination, no vision, no talent; he is looking simply to get the stock as high as be can before he dumps it. He will leave IBM far worse than he found it. | Sep 20 17:24 |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1uApmqCy | Sep 20 18:09 |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | AK said: “I got selected by the board to be CEO to offshore US jobs to India etc..; If I don’t move high paying jobs to India, Mexico etc, IBM will go bankrupt , and I will lose my jobs and my $ millions from compensation “ | Sep 20 18:09 |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1uz6XD8C | Sep 20 21:39 |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | " | Sep 20 21:39 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | that the sole purpose of corporations is to increase value to the shareholders | Sep 20 21:39 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | https://www.forbes.com/sites/stevedenning/2013/06/26/the-origin-of-the-worlds-d-mbest-idea-milton-friedman/ | Sep 20 21:39 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | It is noteworthy that the CEO of the world's most valuable company told an investor they should exit the stock if they actually believe that. | Sep 20 21:39 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | https://www.cnet.com/tech/computing/tim-cook-to-eco-sceptic-shareholders-put-up-or-shut-up/ | Sep 20 21:39 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Of course IBM management completely believes this cr-p, just like all the other buzzword hype BS they constantly pivot the company towards. We are doomed. | Sep 20 21:39 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | 40 minutes ago by Anonymous | Sep 20 21:39 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | | no reactions | Sep 20 21:39 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Post ID: @2nor+1uz6XD8C | Sep 20 21:39 |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | After 24 years with IBM I nearly lost my job at IBM last year due to low sales in 2022 when my territory had a high sales rep turnover and as a tech sales specialist I rely on sales reps to find new opps so we can work together to close them. I have great empathy for those impacted by this layoff. | Sep 20 21:39 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | I hearken back to what I was taught in business school that the sole purpose of corporations is to increase value to the shareholders, no shareholders, no company. | Sep 20 21:39 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | That said, I think many cuts I've seen over the years have been done without consideration of skills of those they cut, which over the long haul reduces shareholder value because without an experienced and skilled workforce, productivity decreases. | Sep 20 21:39 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | During the Palmisano and Rometty years there were massive layoffs primarily in the US to fund share buybacks. In the short term this increases stock prices, but its akin to burning the furniture to keep your house warm. They were also responding to changes in the global markets where IBM increased hiring in APAC where potential growth was increasing and reduced headcount in the US where growth was waning. | Sep 20 21:39 |
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| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-Tim Cook to eco-sceptic shareholders: 'Put up or shut up' - CNET | Sep 20 21:39 | |
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