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schestowitz[TR2]https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1m3a9s7rsSep 26 07:23
schestowitz[TR2]" sadly this isn’t your granddads ibm anymore.Sep 26 07:23
schestowitz[TR2]6 hours ago by AnonymousSep 26 07:23
schestowitz[TR2]| 3 reactions (+3/-0) | ReplySep 26 07:23
schestowitz[TR2]Post ID: @fj+1m3a9s7rsSep 26 07:23
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schestowitz[TR2]@Dr. I think you point out an interesting fact concerning the medical retirement bridge for folks impacted in 2025. Add to that yet another 4500 folks from 2026 RA/PIP actions and that puts IBM USA at close to 35k total including the plants and research. If the plants/research employee population = 10k (research = 1.5, Austin = 4.5, RST = 2, POK = 2.5) then that says IBM USA on shore population is close to 8% of the worldwide IBM pSep 26 07:23
schestowitz[TR2]opulation. Remember Kyndryl let the 8% onshore fact out of the bag when they got spunoff. I believe that’s where managements target was set to all along when they began this offshore/make IBM younger experiment. Now that IBM has the employee numbers set to where they want them, it’s fish or cut bait to see if their go to market strategy works as the legacy employee savings have been rung out of NA and Northern EUropeSep 26 07:23
schestowitz[TR2]11 hours ago by AnonymousSep 26 07:23
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schestowitz[TR2]@OP keep in mind that the true numbers are still yet lower. That's because people like me who were "retired" last December have a years worth of cobra and therefore IBM medical and dental. That means that all of us who were forcibly retired, would be shown as active in this model. That makes some of these numbers an additional year out of date.Sep 26 07:23
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schestowitz[TR2]https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1m3fa2e83Sep 26 22:31
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schestowitz[TR2]"Sep 26 22:31
schestowitz[TR2]What is this ?, "dinobabies", "There’s many more. Just need to get subpoenaed" and "Whoops!", that shows a complete degradation of people who put these comments, they are probably Americans. We need more young and brilliant Indian people at IBM.Sep 26 22:31
schestowitz[TR2]That does not depend on a country of origin, I know many Vietnamese people working at IBM for 40 years and they are very narrow minded people and short in their thoughts ( probably experience too ) not trying to put any energy for creating Slack messages. They are certainly should be out of IBM.Sep 26 22:31
schestowitz[TR2]4 minutes ago by AnonymousSep 26 22:31
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schestowitz[TR2]Post ID: @aw+1m3fa2e83Sep 26 22:31
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schestowitz[TR2]@ap to anyone saying that someone over 40 has nothing left to offer … well, let’s see how you feel when YOU reach that age. Are you planning to quit working then? Do you realize your own parents still need to work in order to put you through college and help you survive until you’re financially independent? Which these days takes longer and longer!Sep 26 22:31
schestowitz[TR2]12 minutes ago by AnonymousSep 26 22:31
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schestowitz[TR2]What is this ?, "dinobabies", "There’s many more. Just need to get subpoenaed" and "Whoops!", that shows a complete degradation of people who put these comments, they are probably Americans. We need more young and brilliant Indian people at IBM.Sep 26 22:31
schestowitz[TR2]24 minutes ago by AnonymousSep 26 22:31
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schestowitz[TR2]@ap did you use AI to spew that garbage?Sep 26 22:31
schestowitz[TR2]31 minutes ago by AnonymousSep 26 22:31
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schestowitz[TR2]Why are messages so short, ( please note that this message is not short ) probably because American people are very minimal in their expression to show their dissatisfaction, maybe IBM is very very right to fire all American people and instead to hire young and brilliant Indian, Chinese and Vietnamese people. BTW they represent IBM mostly ( Indians > 50%, Chinese > 30% and Vietnamese > 10% ). Plus, as it is practiced and promoted aSep 26 22:31
schestowitz[TR2]t Intel, people after 10 years of service or after they are 40 years old they start doing nothing and start playing political games, why? because they just get bored after spending 10 years with a company, they cannot bring anything more significant value to the company. Plus, now, AI is able to do most of the work those 30-40 years old workers do and AI learning phase is now very short, just few days, especially enough to learn thSep 26 22:31
schestowitz[TR2]e IBM technology because it is not a rocket science, for learning it you do not need to drive the whole US to teach autonomic vehicles and then to drive them without a driver. That is a very good pattern to copy to start driving IBM technology without those 35-40 years ( not the old years ) but serviced with the IBM company. Please, be more expressive if you care about IBM future.Sep 26 22:31
schestowitz[TR2]1 hour ago by AnonymousSep 26 22:31
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schestowitz[TR2]dinobabiesSep 26 22:31
schestowitz[TR2]2 hours ago by AnonymousSep 26 22:31
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schestowitz[TR2]There’s many more. Just need to get subpoenaedSep 26 22:31
schestowitz[TR2]3 hours ago by AnonymousSep 26 22:31
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schestowitz[TR2]Post ID: @a8+1m3fa2e83Sep 26 22:31
schestowitz[TR2] +2 Sep 26 22:31
schestowitz[TR2]Whoops!Sep 26 22:31
schestowitz[TR2]"Sep 26 22:31
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