"Warning About IBM's Labor Practices"
Many choose to resign; IBM won't count them as "layoffs"
There are some interesting new comments about Christmas layoffs at IBM (under " Merry Christmas", as previously noted in [1, 2]). One person said a few hours ago that IBM had turned this into a ruinous stigma:
The advice to put a boot in IBM's a** is sound, but with one caveat: Angry employees have been doing it for 35 years, ever since the first RAs began in the 1990s. There are now entire generations of ex-IBM employees all around the world, all of them warning about IBM's labor practices. Everybody knows what's going on, and that knowledge has helped to turn IBM (and Kyndryl) into what they are today.
My wife and I quit our job in December 2 years ago. We have no regrets about this. I had actually planned to do this for a long while.
The above speaks of "entire generations of ex-IBM employees"; some of them ended up as CEO of Novell and AMD. IBM was such a vast company that it's hard to find an employer without some old people who once worked at IBM. In my last job we even visited clients who occupied ex-IBM offices (with employees of other companies). I spent several days working in one of these offices. It was my very last experience of "office job" and that was way back in 2012 or 2013. It's like 10 times worse than working from home and I was not productive at all. I promised myself never to go there again. That client has since then been acquired by a company with a revenue of $316.6 billion, so it's probably even worse now.
IBM is not growing and its revenue is just "borrowed" from companies it is buying; a lot of this revenue gets spent paying the interest on considerable debt [1, 2]. █