●● IRC: #techbytes @ Techrights IRC Network: Thursday, January 29, 2026 ●● ● Jan 29 [04:46] schestowitz[TR2] https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kg2v8v2v [04:46] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes- ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kg2v8v2v ) [04:46] schestowitz[TR2] "what new people? They arent hiring much at all at my site, just summer interns . There are enough people to manage them as people are losing their direct reports [04:46] schestowitz[TR2] 4 hours ago by Anonymous [04:46] schestowitz[TR2] | 2 reactions (+2/-0) | Reply [04:46] schestowitz[TR2] Post ID: @b9+1kg2v8v2v [04:46] schestowitz[TR2] +2 [04:46] schestowitz[TR2] @aw - Who is going to train the new hires when so many of us don't even know if we are going to be around - I feel sorry for all these young interns who have been proudly announcing having being offered the internship at IBM. Soon they would realize all that effort they put in to land the job is going to get them nowhere and one day they would succumb to RA. [04:46] schestowitz[TR2] 4 hours ago by Anonymous [04:46] schestowitz[TR2] | 2 reactions (+2/-0) | Reply [04:46] schestowitz[TR2] Post ID: @b6+1kg2v8v2v [04:46] schestowitz[TR2] +7 [04:46] schestowitz[TR2] IBM has been a sh-t company for the past 10+ years. It is definitely not a place for a new hire or someone out of college to be and thrive. Look somewhere else. [04:46] schestowitz[TR2] 6 hours ago by Anonymous [04:46] schestowitz[TR2] | 7 reactions (+7/-0) | Reply [04:46] schestowitz[TR2] Post ID: @aw+1kg2v8v2v [04:46] schestowitz[TR2] +3 [04:46] schestowitz[TR2] Early in my career, I learned, Managers are useless pieces of sh1t. How can a stup1d, technically re--rded manager understand and rate my work ? [04:46] schestowitz[TR2] My most recent manager is a useless liberal art graduate, he has never coded a line or taken a computer architecture class. How can such an id1ot rate any work or understand it ? [04:46] schestowitz[TR2] Done with the rant. [04:46] schestowitz[TR2] With rolling layoffs, helping others is like shooting yourself in the foot. [04:46] schestowitz[TR2] " [04:47] schestowitz[TR2] https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kg2bhvpm [04:47] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes- ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kg2bhvpm ) [04:47] schestowitz[TR2] " there are better options than to hold to IBM garbage. [04:47] schestowitz[TR2] 6 hours ago by Anonymous [04:47] schestowitz[TR2] | no reactions | Reply [04:47] schestowitz[TR2] Post ID: @bs+1kg2bhvpm [04:47] schestowitz[TR2] 0 [04:47] schestowitz[TR2] @bj [04:47] schestowitz[TR2] Who cares! the stock is going up, that is all that counts. [04:47] schestowitz[TR2] I love it, they can lie as much as they want... actually, I think they are not lying enough! [04:47] schestowitz[TR2] 6 hours ago by Anonymous [04:47] schestowitz[TR2] | no reactions | Reply [04:47] schestowitz[TR2] Post ID: @bq+1kg2bhvpm [04:47] schestowitz[TR2] +2 [04:47] schestowitz[TR2] IBM released its 4th quarter numbers, it is a sack of lies. How can any d-Mb id1ot belive this gibberish ? [04:47] schestowitz[TR2] 7 hours ago by Anonymous [04:47] schestowitz[TR2] | 2 reactions (+2/-0) | Reply [04:47] schestowitz[TR2] Post ID: @bj+1kg2bhvpm [04:47] schestowitz[TR2] +7 [04:47] schestowitz[TR2] @a6, IBM recent offerings are dismal. Customers locked in mainframe platform pay high premiums. POWER is in disarray. POWER was handed to the Indians (both Hardware and Software). Customers on POWER are fleeing to other platforms, since IBM can no longer justify high premiums with no innovation and mediocrity. ● Jan 29 [07:10] *schestowitz-TR has quit (Ping timeout: 120 seconds) [07:10] *schestowitz-TR (~acer-box@freenode-e6i734.ldvb.0amm.hij1op.IP) has joined #techbytes [07:13] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has left #techbytes [07:32] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has joined #techbytes [07:40] *psydroid3 (~psydroid@7h7y9yu8y5zjw.irc) has joined #techbytes [07:45] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has left #techbytes ● Jan 29 [08:29] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has joined #techbytes [08:46] *psydroid3 has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) ● Jan 29 [09:10] *psydroid3 (~psydroid@7h7y9yu8y5zjw.irc) has joined #techbytes [09:53] *psydroid3 has quit (Quit: KVIrc 5.2.6 Quasar http://www.kvirc.net/) ● Jan 29 [12:47] *x-amarsh04 has quit (connection closed) [12:48] *x-amarsh04 (~amarsh04@kcb99h722ua4g.irc) has joined #techbytes ● Jan 29 [15:32] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has left #techbytes ● Jan 29 [16:08] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has joined #techbytes [16:26] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has left #techbytes [16:30] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has joined #techbytes ● Jan 29 [19:26] schestowitz[TR2] https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kg3ctq05 [19:26] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes- ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kg3ctq05 ) [19:26] schestowitz[TR2] "my manager says I dont perform at band level and I offered to go down a level and he said it wasnt being offered as an option [19:26] schestowitz[TR2] 22 minutes ago by Anonymous [19:26] schestowitz[TR2] | 1 reaction (+0/-1) | Reply [19:26] schestowitz[TR2] Post ID: @dt+1kg3ctq05 [19:26] schestowitz[TR2] +1 [19:26] schestowitz[TR2] @ah Manager here. Here's how a debanding works: [19:26] schestowitz[TR2] For example, for bands 1 - 9, if you are demoted 1 level, your salary and GDP does not change BUT you are probably at the top of the salary range for the lower Band level -- which means you are unlikely to get a base salary increase until you get promoted up a level. (Have seen an employee demoted 1 level and then the employee works hard and gets promoted back to their former level -- very rare, but have seen it happen.) Going from [19:26] schestowitz[TR2] a Band 10 to a Band 9, has the same salary implications described above AND your GDP potential is substantially reduced (since Band 10s have a higher potential for GDP). So going from a Band 10 to a Band 9 does not decrease your salary but it will reduce your total compensation due to a lower GDP payout. [19:26] schestowitz[TR2] 1 hour ago by Anonymous [19:26] schestowitz[TR2] | 1 reaction (+1/-0) | Reply [19:26] schestowitz[TR2] Post ID: @dn+1kg3ctq05 [19:26] schestowitz[TR2] +1 [19:26] schestowitz[TR2] @ah demoting from one band to lower band has been a favorite strategy in areas like MCC. Even Execs / Directors are being debanded. Some folk are so fearful of losing their jobs that they take the humiliation and hold on until theyre inevitably RAed. The same useless crones at the top seem to hang on by their fingernails though, continuing to make use of the Corporate jet. [19:26] schestowitz[TR2] " [19:34] *psydroid3 (~psydroid@yu29f4abyrsnc.irc) has joined #techbytes ● Jan 29 [22:21] *psydroid3 has quit (Quit: KVIrc 5.2.6 Quasar http://www.kvirc.net/)