●● IRC: #techbytes @ Techrights IRC Network: Saturday, September 26, 2026 ●● ● Sep 26 [03:46] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has left #techbytes ● Sep 26 [04:18] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has joined #techbytes [04:24] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has left #techbytes [04:27] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has joined #techbytes [04:49] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has left #techbytes ● Sep 26 [05:19] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has joined #techbytes ● Sep 26 [07:23] schestowitz[TR2] https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1m3a9s7rs [07:23] schestowitz[TR2] " sadly this isnt your granddads ibm anymore. [07:23] schestowitz[TR2] 6 hours ago by Anonymous [07:23] schestowitz[TR2] | 3 reactions (+3/-0) | Reply [07:23] schestowitz[TR2] Post ID: @fj+1m3a9s7rs [07:23] schestowitz[TR2] 0 [07:23] 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 p [07:23] schestowitz[TR2] opulation. Remember Kyndryl let the 8% onshore fact out of the bag when they got spunoff. I believe thats 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, its 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 EUrope [07:23] schestowitz[TR2] 11 hours ago by Anonymous [07:23] schestowitz[TR2] | no reactions | Reply [07:23] schestowitz[TR2] Post ID: @em+1m3a9s7rs [07:23] schestowitz[TR2] +6 [07:23] 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 That makes some of these numbers an additional year out of date. [07:23] schestowitz[TR2] " [07:23] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes- ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1m3a9s7rs ) ● Sep 26 [12:43] *schestowitz-TR has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [12:44] *schestowitz-TR (~acer-box@vuxwzfwqwxrky.irc) has joined #techbytes [12:44] *schestowitz-TR (~acer-box@freenode-as1qlv.ldvb.0amm.hij1op.IP) has joined #techbytes [12:44] *schestowitz-TR2 has quit (Ping timeout: 120 seconds) [12:45] *techrights-sec1 has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [12:45] *techrights-sec4 has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [12:45] *techrights-sec3 has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [12:45] *Techrights-sec has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [12:51] *techrights-sec1 (~quassel@vuxwzfwqwxrky.irc) has joined #techbytes [12:51] *techrights-sec4 (~quassel@vuxwzfwqwxrky.irc) has joined #techbytes [12:52] *techrights-sec3 (~quassel@vuxwzfwqwxrky.irc) has joined #techbytes [12:56] *Techrights-sec (~quassel@vuxwzfwqwxrky.irc) has joined #techbytes ● Sep 26 [16:43] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has left #techbytes ● Sep 26 [18:08] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has joined #techbytes ● Sep 26 [21:55] *x-amarsh04 has quit (Quit: Konversation terminated!) ● Sep 26 [22:12] *x-amarsh04 (~amarsh04@ezcq48qr7j4kk.irc) has joined #techbytes [22:31] schestowitz[TR2] https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1m3fa2e83 [22:31] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes- ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1m3fa2e83 ) [22:31] schestowitz[TR2] " [22:31] schestowitz[TR2] What is this ?, "dinobabies", "Theres 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. [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. [22:31] schestowitz[TR2] 4 minutes ago by Anonymous [22:31] schestowitz[TR2] | no reactions | Reply [22:31] schestowitz[TR2] Post ID: @aw+1m3fa2e83 [22:31] schestowitz[TR2] +1 [22:31] schestowitz[TR2] @ap to anyone saying that someone over 40 has nothing left to offer well, lets 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 youre financially independent? Which these days takes longer and longer! [22:31] schestowitz[TR2] 12 minutes ago by Anonymous [22:31] schestowitz[TR2] | 1 reaction (+1/-0) | Reply [22:31] schestowitz[TR2] Post ID: @av+1m3fa2e83 [22:31] schestowitz[TR2] -2 [22:31] schestowitz[TR2] What is this ?, "dinobabies", "Theres 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. [22:31] schestowitz[TR2] 24 minutes ago by Anonymous [22:31] schestowitz[TR2] | 2 reactions (+0/-2) | Reply [22:31] schestowitz[TR2] Post ID: @at+1m3fa2e83 [22:31] schestowitz[TR2] +1 [22:31] schestowitz[TR2] @ap did you use AI to spew that garbage? [22:31] schestowitz[TR2] 31 minutes ago by Anonymous [22:31] schestowitz[TR2] | 1 reaction (+1/-0) | Reply [22:31] schestowitz[TR2] Post ID: @as+1m3fa2e83 [22:31] schestowitz[TR2] -1 [22:31] 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 a [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 th [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. [22:31] schestowitz[TR2] 1 hour ago by Anonymous [22:31] schestowitz[TR2] | 3 reactions (+1/-2) | Reply [22:31] schestowitz[TR2] Post ID: @ap+1m3fa2e83 [22:31] schestowitz[TR2] +1 [22:31] schestowitz[TR2] dinobabies [22:31] schestowitz[TR2] 2 hours ago by Anonymous [22:31] schestowitz[TR2] | 1 reaction (+1/-0) | Reply [22:31] schestowitz[TR2] Post ID: @af+1m3fa2e83 [22:31] schestowitz[TR2] +5 [22:31] schestowitz[TR2] Theres many more. Just need to get subpoenaed [22:31] schestowitz[TR2] 3 hours ago by Anonymous [22:31] schestowitz[TR2] | 5 reactions (+5/-0) | Reply [22:31] schestowitz[TR2] Post ID: @a8+1m3fa2e83 [22:31] schestowitz[TR2] +2 [22:31] schestowitz[TR2] Whoops! [22:31] schestowitz[TR2] " ● Sep 26 [23:27] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has left #techbytes [23:30] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has joined #techbytes