●● IRC: #techbytes @ Techrights IRC Network: Wednesday, July 31, 2024 ●● ● Jul 31 [00:56] *gyemsz has quit (Ping timeout: 120 seconds) ● Jul 31 [04:52] *geert has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) ● Jul 31 [05:34] schestowitz[TR2] https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1tLwCyMC [05:34] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes- ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1tLwCyMC ) [05:34] schestowitz[TR2] "" [05:34] schestowitz[TR2] "As a manager, I have advocated to save specific people from layoffs." [05:34] schestowitz[TR2] Back in the day, I was in a PBC meeting with my FLM discussing the 2 rating he gave me for that year. I believed that my accomplishments were worthy of a 1 rating (don't we all think that way), but he disagreed. He told me something that day that I never forgot during the rest of my time with the company... [05:34] schestowitz[TR2] "I have to get support for my decisions from my peer managers, and I barely know you. It's hard enough for me to justify giving you a 2, let alone giving you a 1. Why should I do that?" [05:34] schestowitz[TR2] For my previous years of service, I was a solid 1 every year. (Yeah, I was one of those people.) After that rating, I put in just enough effort for that manager to get a gentleman's 2...I worked for him for a year or two before switching departments. My PBC ratings after that time were mostly 2s and the occasional 1. [05:34] schestowitz[TR2] The lesson that day for me was that IBM management operates as a hive mind, with little room for individuality among managers. This applies to RAs as well as PBCs (or PIPs or whatever they call them now). The managers don't make those decisions on their own. [05:34] schestowitz[TR2] 22 minutes ago by Anonymous [05:34] schestowitz[TR2] | no reactions [05:34] schestowitz[TR2] Post ID: @1hyv+1tLwCyMC [05:34] schestowitz[TR2] 0 [05:34] schestowitz[TR2] As a manager, I have advocated to save specific people from layoffs. Sometimes that works, other times not. One case, I got the exception and one hr group over rules the hr group who gave the exception. [05:34] schestowitz[TR2] In a past IBM position, nothing could avoid the layoff, except for a customers lawyers statement saying IBM will be in breach of contract if they laid off my team. Of course people had to take the ethics course randomly to not share confidential decisions, someone leaked to the customer, but hey it save peoples careers and top talent. Which IBM found another way to lay them off a year later. [05:34] schestowitz[TR2] 1 hour ago by Anonymous [05:34] schestowitz[TR2] | no reactions [05:34] schestowitz[TR2] Post ID: @1kjs+1tLwCyMC [05:34] schestowitz[TR2] -3 [05:34] schestowitz[TR2] In Software, the deadline was April something... All these managers who did not relocate are already gone. In the hundreds here in the US. [05:34] schestowitz[TR2] Certainly, good riddance. Bye bye. [05:34] schestowitz[TR2] Hopefully more to come... Most (not all) managers at IBM are totally useless. [05:34] schestowitz[TR2] " ● Jul 31 [06:46] *Kryder (~Kryder@freenode-94n.fcd.2mlqpl.IP) has joined #techbytes ● Jul 31 [09:05] *parsifal (~parsifal@6thegygyadsu4.irc) has joined #techbytes [09:05] *parsifal has quit (connection closed) [09:57] *psydroid2 (~psydroid@j9gt2haw74jrk.irc) has joined #techbytes ● Jul 31 [10:43] *IsambardPrince has quit (Quit: Konversation terminated!) ● Jul 31 [11:41] *x-amarsh04 has quit (Quit: Konversation terminated!) [11:47] *x-amarsh04 (~amarsh04@33w9azu2mmjzy.irc) has joined #techbytes ● Jul 31 [15:25] schestowitz[TR2]
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    After assembling the set, Mitchell found that three rotations of the drive shaft would advance the models time by one day, meaning that a NEMA 17 motor could be easily connected and turned with precision. As for the electronics, he opted for an Arduino Nano 33 IoT, an A4988 stepper motor driver module, and a 162 character LCD to show the current network connection status. Thanks to th [15:32] schestowitz[TR2] e Nanos Wi-Fi connectivity, the model can automatically sync to the current time and move accordingly upon boot.

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    • [15:32] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-blog.arduino.cc | Adding voice commands to a LEGO planetarium set with an Arduino Nano 33 IoT | Arduino Blog ● Jul 31 [16:29] *psydroid3 has quit (Quit: KVIrc 5.0.0 Aria http://www.kvirc.net/) [16:31] *psydroid3 (~psydroid@j9gt2haw74jrk.irc) has joined #techbytes ● Jul 31 [18:15] *geert (~geert@3v93agep546rg.irc) has joined #techbytes ● Jul 31 [21:30] *IsambardPrince (~isambardprince@p9a7bfbzj6a68.irc) has joined #techbytes ● Jul 31 [22:02] *geert has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [22:06] *psydroid3 has quit (Quit: KVIrc 5.0.0 Aria http://www.kvirc.net/) [22:58] *vtuxtfpx (~vtuxtfpx@freenode-mno.utb.f90g06.IP) has joined #techbytes [22:58] vtuxtfpx ? .. # [22:59] *vtuxtfpx (~vtuxtfpx@freenode-mno.utb.f90g06.IP) has left #techbytes ● Jul 31 [23:06] schestowitz[TR2] https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1tLGrXxJ [23:06] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes- ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1tLGrXxJ ) [23:06] schestowitz[TR2] "" [23:07] schestowitz[TR2] Wall Street and Big Business continue to whip up the emotion like an Amway convention. Spin the facts, practice the lines until you believe them yourself, and collect your prizes at the door. Its gonna be great for everyone. [23:07] schestowitz[TR2] At any rate, renewals and compliance keep the cash trickling up. And while AK tells the Street how great IBM is doing, for the front line theres a PIP with their name on it, [23:07] schestowitz[TR2] 1 hour ago by Anonymous [23:07] schestowitz[TR2] | no reactions [23:07] schestowitz[TR2] Post ID: @1hty+1tLGrXxJ [23:07] schestowitz[TR2] +4 [23:07] schestowitz[TR2] This is precisely why IBM is in the predicament it is in. AK manages exclusively through PR and playing games with the numbers. There is nothing but Wall Street and the next quarter. Anyone at the company with boots on the ground knows what is actually happening. Mass secret layoffs, chronic and terminal churn and dysfunction, senior leadership comprised exclusively of sycophants trying to save their own jobs, products and services [23:07] schestowitz[TR2] that are wheezing, gasping, and limping along trying to survive moment-by-moment, and that the future AK is betting everything on WatsonX is pure, unadulterated trash. There is no one at the wheel. AK is Nero fiddling while Rome burns. [23:07] schestowitz[TR2] " [23:07] schestowitz[TR2] https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1tLwCyMC [23:07] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes- ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1tLwCyMC ) [23:08] schestowitz[TR2] " [23:08] schestowitz[TR2] The results of IBM's heavily matrixed management environment are obvious...that's what everybody is complaining about, after all. Individual performance and accomplishment becomes subordinate to group approval, and the work environment becomes nothing more than a sick popularity contest. [23:08] schestowitz[TR2] 5 hours ago by Anonymous [23:08] schestowitz[TR2] | 2 reactions (+2/-0) [23:08] schestowitz[TR2] Post ID: @1haa+1tLwCyMC [23:08] schestowitz[TR2] +3 [23:08] schestowitz[TR2] I have to get support for my decisions from my peer managers [23:08] schestowitz[TR2] It is like that at any company as far as promotions, ratings and pay raises. [23:08] schestowitz[TR2] No manager can act by himself unless he owns the company. [23:08] schestowitz[TR2] So that is why you need other managers to know something about what you do. When the 2nd lines or above get together to discuss who they can promote / whatever (with whatever options they've been given from above), you don't want your manager to be the only person in the room that knows you and can vouch for you. [23:08] schestowitz[TR2] 7 hours ago by Anonymous [23:08] schestowitz[TR2] | 5 reactions (+4/-1) [23:08] schestowitz[TR2] Post ID: @1kze+1tLwCyMC [23:08] schestowitz[TR2] +4 [23:08] schestowitz[TR2] Executives make the calls today on who stays and who goes. HR and Finance determine how many have to go regardless of it being RA, collocation or PIP. Managers are usually given names and told these are the people who have to go this time. Collocations by design expect at least 50% take them. If less than 50%, the target is missed then comes RAs and PIPs. Ultimately it comes down to the toxic culture of the top level executives and [23:08] schestowitz[TR2] the goal to get enough free cash flow to try to get IBM back to being a growth stock. [23:08] schestowitz[TR2] For managers that are on Software collocation it is pretty simple. If you collocate then you might be fine until the next RA even if you just moved. If you don't want to collocate and you are a manager that is mostly an individual contributor, they just took away the manager flag and reassigned their reports to another manager. In the toxic world of HR, a manager is the person that pushes the buttons in workday, jump through the me [23:08] schestowitz[TR2] aningless hoops of checkpoint and delivers the negative news on the next action to reduce headcount. [23:08] schestowitz[TR2] In Software there are two dates one for managers collocating and another for non-managers to collocate. Expect an RA in mid-Q3 and another one mid-Q4 around the time or just after the date for collocation completion. [23:08] schestowitz[TR2] " [23:08] schestowitz[TR2] " Your narrative is Just typical drivel that I would expect from a pathetic IBM manager without a backbone; it's all about "me, me, me" and to he-l with the employees under me since HR knows best what to do as the "hive mind"; but I will get a rating of 1 at the end of the year. [23:08] schestowitz[TR2] I'm sure you would put down a bunch of non existent KPIs as your achievements even if you failed to achieve any of them because your FLM didn't know you well enough to go out for drinks with you, as they do in the F&O division. It's still the old boys network that keeps things together until the corporate axe comes a-calling and a-falling. And the axe should fall on F&O and Consulting divisions next as the largest group of thieves [23:08] schestowitz[TR2] and spendthrifts in the company. [23:08] schestowitz[TR2] After all, who can justify having 20000 VPs, Executives and managers on a payroll at an irrelevant company with falling revenue and over budget projects ? And said company pays these managers and executives for so many non-client facing trips to expensive hotels and bars around the world for unproductive management meetings ? Ever seen any external audit of IBM accounts in any division over the past 15 years ? You never will see th [23:08] schestowitz[TR2] is in F&O since the ruthless JK cooks the books all too well. It's what he excels at and covering it all up with talk of AI when he presents the quarterly results (non-GAAP of course). [23:08] schestowitz[TR2] So yes, there needs to be a target on the back of every single IBM US manager, FLM and VP inside IBM who has been there for more than 10 years, and keeps surviving on one pretext or the other but not for the reason of being efficient or good at their job ? No one should shed one bitter tear when these people are purged from the rolls. The managers and executives have earned their just layoff rewards at a garbage company. [23:08] schestowitz[TR2] Hasta La Vista, Baby ! [23:08] schestowitz[TR2] 11 hours ago by Anonymous [23:08] schestowitz[TR2] | 14 reactions (+12/-2) [23:08] schestowitz[TR2] Post ID: @1jea+1tLwCyMC [23:08] schestowitz[TR2] -10 [23:08] schestowitz[TR2] @ttg+1tLwCyMC and @1kjs+1tLwCyMC [23:08] schestowitz[TR2] "As a manager, I have advocated to save specific people from layoffs." [23:08] schestowitz[TR2] Back in the day, I was in a PBC meeting with my FLM discussing the 2 rating he gave me for that year. I believed that my accomplishments were worthy of a 1 rating (don't we all think that way), but he disagreed. He told me something that day that I never forgot during the rest of my time with the company... [23:08] schestowitz[TR2] "I have to get support for my decisions from my peer managers, and I barely know you. It's hard enough for me to justify giving you a 2, let alone giving you a 1. Why should I do that?" [23:08] schestowitz[TR2] For my previous years of service, I was a solid 1 every year. (Yeah, I was one of those people.) After that rating, I put in just enough effort for that manager to get a gentleman's 2...I worked for him for a year or two before switching departments. My PBC ratings after that time were mostly 2s and the occasional 1. [23:08] schestowitz[TR2] The lesson that day for me was that IBM management operates as a hive mind, with little room for individuality among managers. This applies to RAs as well as PBCs (or PIPs or whatever they call them now). The managers don't make those decisions on their own. [23:08] schestowitz[TR2] 17 hours ago by Anonymous [23:08] schestowitz[TR2] | 22 reactions (+6/-16) [23:08] schestowitz[TR2] Post ID: @1hyv+1tLwCyMC [23:08] schestowitz[TR2] -3 [23:08] schestowitz[TR2] As a manager, I have advocated to save specific people from layoffs. Sometimes that works, other times not. One case, I got the exception and one hr group over rules the hr group who gave the exception. [23:08] schestowitz[TR2] In a past IBM position, nothing could avoid the layoff, except for a customers lawyers statement saying IBM will be in breach of contract if they laid off my team. Of course people had to take the ethics course randomly to not share confidential decisions, someone leaked to the customer, but hey it save peoples careers and top talent. Which IBM found another way to lay them off a year later. [23:08] schestowitz[TR2] 18 hours ago by Anonymous [23:08] schestowitz[TR2] | 9 reactions (+3/-6) [23:08] schestowitz[TR2] Post ID: @1kjs+1tLwCyMC [23:08] schestowitz[TR2] +14 [23:08] schestowitz[TR2] In Software, the deadline was April something... All these managers who did not relocate are already gone. In the hundreds here in the US. [23:08] schestowitz[TR2] Certainly, good riddance. Bye bye. [23:08] schestowitz[TR2] Hopefully more to come... Most (not all) managers at IBM are totally useless. [23:08] schestowitz[TR2] " [23:32] schestowitz[TR2] http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2024/07/upckat-upc-court-of-appeals-pi-ruling.html?showComment=1722238967323#c5937731684786527544 [23:32] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-ipkitten.blogspot.com | [UPCKat] UPC Court of Appeals PI ruling leaves open the possibility of using prosecution history as an aid for claim construction - The IPKat [23:32] schestowitz[TR2] "I have doubts about Annsley's remark that "the CFI used the prosecution history of the patent monopoly as an aid in arriving at this conclusion by looking at how the claims were originally worded in the application as filed." Looking at the claims of the original application may be related to a review of the new matter issue within the infringement assessment."