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[04:44]	schestowitz[TR3]	https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kq9y3dtj#replies
[04:44]	schestowitz[TR3]	"ABSOLUTELY !
[04:44]	schestowitz[TR3]	LOL
[04:44]	schestowitz[TR3]	2 hours ago by Anonymous
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[04:44]	schestowitz[TR3]	Why is everyone obsessed with Arvind real estate Transactions?
[04:44]	schestowitz[TR3]	Get a life haters
[04:44]	schestowitz[TR3]	Arvind is doing a great job as CEO
[04:44]	schestowitz[TR3]	5 hours ago by Anonymous
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[04:44]	schestowitz[TR3]	@by They seem to do Think40 "training" 12 hours a day and the other 12 hours is cutting comments from here, ingesting them into the dumpster fire that Bob-watsonx-other IBM BS-Gertner's elepphnat book and taking that output and posting it here. It's A Wonderful Life!
[04:44]	schestowitz[TR3]	5 hours ago by Anonymous
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[04:44]	schestowitz[TR3]	 +3 
[04:44]	schestowitz[TR3]	Where the he-l is that IBM (right here right now) cheerleader? I feel like kicking someone around.
[04:44]	schestowitz[TR3]	5 hours ago by Meanie Bear
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[04:44]	schestowitz[TR3]	 +4 
[04:44]	schestowitz[TR3]	@bm THANK YOU! Mind if I reuse Robbie The Hood?
[04:44]	schestowitz[TR3]	"
[04:45]	schestowitz[TR3]	https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kqay796d#replies
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[04:45]	schestowitz[TR3]	""
[04:45]	schestowitz[TR3]	Just do what I do: Check in, pretend to work, and check out. Whatever I'm asked to do, I run it through AI and do a quick edit. My id--t boss thinks I'm a genius. I'll probably be the last one to get RAed. What a stupid company.
[04:45]	schestowitz[TR3]	1 hour ago by Anonymous
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[04:45]	schestowitz[TR3]	The terms of that buyout were ridiculous and stupid. Many are waiting for a better deal.
[04:45]	schestowitz[TR3]	"
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[06:34]	schestowitz[TR3]	https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kq832hbg#replies
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[06:34]	schestowitz[TR3]	"I don't see any hateful words against those co-k su-kas.
[06:34]	schestowitz[TR3]	1 hour ago by Anonymous
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[06:34]	schestowitz[TR3]	 +5 
[06:34]	schestowitz[TR3]	@f9
[06:34]	schestowitz[TR3]	'Arvind and his executive team'
[06:34]	schestowitz[TR3]	are skillless, greedy, and have decimated ibm
[06:34]	schestowitz[TR3]	this should be some sort crime, somebody please call 911
[06:34]	schestowitz[TR3]	3 hours ago by Anonymous
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[06:34]	schestowitz[TR3]	Arvind and his executive team are making tough choices to make IBM competitive and the replies here are about curry and other hateful words towards him and his team
[06:34]	schestowitz[TR3]	Grow up people
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● Apr 29
[07:54]	schestowitz[TR3]	"Heres the short-short version of why ChatGPT is unable to say my name (Bryan Lunduke) and errors out when it tries:
[07:54]	schestowitz[TR3]	Some time back, people began to notice that ChatGPT was hallucinating fact about me.
[07:54]	schestowitz[TR3]	Wild, ridiculous things.  Like Lunduke organizes Trans pride rallies, Lunduke has a husband, and Lunduke has two club feet.
[07:54]	schestowitz[TR3]	Stuff that wasnt even really based on sources or real training material.  Just ChatGPT having an acid trip.
[07:54]	schestowitz[TR3]	These statements were easily considered libelous.  And, based on the law at the moment, OpenAI would be liable for any potential damages should I take them to court.
[07:54]	schestowitz[TR3]	So I reached out to OpenAI (including CEO @sama
[07:54]	schestowitz[TR3]	) and, after having multiple discussions, I gave them a simple ultimatum:
[07:54]	schestowitz[TR3]	Either fix ChatGPT so that it no longer consistently makes up false, defamatory statements about me or make it so that ChatGPT can no longer talk about me.
[07:54]	schestowitz[TR3]	After a month of working on it OpenAI decided that they could not figure out how to get ChatGPT to stop consistently hallucinating about me.
[07:54]	schestowitz[TR3]	Think about that for a second.
[07:54]	schestowitz[TR3]	The engineers at OpenAI could not figure out how to make their AI system tell the truth.
[07:54]	schestowitz[TR3]	So my name, Bryan Lunduke, joins a small handful of other names which ChatGPT chokes on.
[07:54]	schestowitz[TR3]	Interestingly the Dont talk about this person filter that OpenAI developed is incredibly buggy.  Resulting in people finding creative ways to trick ChatGPT into talking about me.
[07:54]	schestowitz[TR3]	OpenAI couldnt develop a system that told the truth so they put on a broken, buggy filter.
[07:54]	schestowitz[TR3]	I find it all highly ridiculous."
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[19:13]	schestowitz[TR3]	"will there be Shit80 and Shit120 jobs in the future brought to you by Krabanaugh and his sc-m ?
[19:13]	schestowitz[TR3]	1 hour ago by Anonymous
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[19:13]	schestowitz[TR3]	@cy is the cheaper country that the European jobs are moving to called India ? (that's where most of IBM's remaining jobs are heading)
[19:13]	schestowitz[TR3]	Inquiring minds want to know.
[19:13]	schestowitz[TR3]	1 hour ago by Anonymous
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[19:13]	schestowitz[TR3]	@ax So basically what I'm saying is that working at IBM is a kind of dream job. Their slogan is "think" but it might as well be "sh-t". Because that's basically what I do. I Shit40 and get paid for it.
[19:13]	schestowitz[TR3]	2 hours ago by Anonymous
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[19:13]	schestowitz[TR3]	It is never voluntary when the enhanced severance package offered comes with the condition take it or get the statutory minimum because the decision to move your European-based job to a cheaper country is already final. The European layoffs are true.
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[21:57]	schestowitz[TR3]	https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kq832hbg#replies
[21:57]	schestowitz[TR3]	:
[21:57]	schestowitz[TR3]	IBMs sweet spot for profitability when it comes to enterprise (think mostly mainframe) historically centers around a 300-320k per employee. You can go back to Gerstner and his restructuring and 300k per employee was the sweet spot even as he downsized the company. So what does that say for IBMs future? Given the 71 billion in 2026 revenue estimate and 5% growth it says IBM needs to get to 240-245 K worth of worldwide em
[21:57]	schestowitz[TR3]	ployees as it approaches 2027. IBM has slowly been working towards that goal (employees continue to drop 282 to 270 to 263), while revenue continues to increase (61 billion to 62.5 to 67). I look for stabilization in the 245k employee range. That says 255k of employees in 2026 and 245k of employees in 2027. NOTE these estimates also align with the 1 billion per year of cost take out
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