IBM Cannot Even Do Payroll, Now a "Legitimate Target" of Iran
IBM's business practices are coming under intense scrutiny. Insiders and former insiders want the public to know about the company's true image (among staff) and someone recent wrote about "the management style" here in thelayoff.com. Among the replies (some of which we've captured before in case they get censored):
IBM managers are useless p1eces of sh1t.I worked in different companies, where mangers used to be developers too, then there is IBM managers.
On good management figures:
We won’t hire them. They used to be great but last 10 years tremendously declined
And someone who claims to be a former middle manager dictated by clueless upper management:
I was a front line manager. It's not that we're useless, at least by choice, and we're definitely not pieces of sh-t. Upper management constantly is changing goal posts, they will say one thing one week then the next the procedures and alignment has completely changed. They are temperamental. It's not that I won't help you, it's that I can't. You can see that sh-t is happening above you but nobody will really tell you why, and you get your information from the rumor mill which is always pieces of truth you have to try and piece together. Then they take away all of the tools we have to help you with your job, like evaluations, they are back to forcing managers to mark low performers even if there are none. It was good a few years ago and I felt empowered to lead my team but I stepped down because they took all of that away from us. For example, I had an employee grossly behind in pay and band and I spent a solid year trying to get him promoted up but every time, last minute, they would change the goalposts and I'd get no clarity on why he was rejected, even though I gave him good marks. The latest being that my "exceeds/meets" was not good enough for a band promotion even though he was an entire band behind people coming in entry level despite being more qualified.
When management and coordination become this bad we can expect flukes or blunders like these, wherein some don't get paid what they are legally entitled to:
Someone had said: "You haven’t gotten it yet? You might be in trouble the way they treat folks in your situation..."
We saw similar reports months ago and captured a copy.
As someone else put it: "Did you receive a confirmation that you signed the separation agreement? It might a boon for a lawyer. IBM is incompetent."
How did the company turn from a leader in tech into a laughing stock (even in the eyes of its own staff)?
Here is an executive ("IBM China's Chair") talking about slop with slop images some hours ago: (Yicai Global)
Infantile name-dropping of buzzwords and nothing else. They moved from "Clown Computing" to "hey hi". Now, as they are a miliary contractor, they find themselves a target of missile attacks and state-sponsored cracking. This report speaks of "legitimate targets" and says "IBM, and more in the Middle East."
Missiles or not, it seems like IBM systems will be targeted more by cybercriminals. Is IBM prepared to cope with it? If it cannot even pay its own staff, how can it handle more complex tasks? █
Image source: Frontispiece Portrait of William Wells Brown