Low Morale at IBM and Perception of Destructive Management
2 hours ago (UK):
IBM/Kyndryl:
It's almost Easter and people are leaving IBM, as usual. But the rumours say some time after Easter the layoffs will accelerate and insiders abhor the leadership, which is perceived to be parasitic and self-serving. "I have had nearly as long a tenure as Arvind," somebody wrote some hours ago, "have as many patents and earned more awards. Yet Arvind had no problem burning my career to ash to pad his own pockets. I have a legacy of helping people; Arvind has a legacy of nothing but greed and turning his back on the American worker. Fu ck Arvind and anyone who supports this traitor to America."
Another person responded: "No one deserves more hate than Arvind. An "immigrant" that destroys American jobs isn't one we need here. He is a traitor. End of story."
These sorts of comments seem to have become common. But the behaviour of Arvind can similarly be attributed to CEOs that are not immigrants.
Regarding "the upcoming IBM Annual Meeting", this new thread said: "There's plenty of more interesting revelations (mostly financial), so if you are a shareholder, order your copy from your bank, your brokerage or your granny (if she is an IBM shareholder)...the schmucks who put this stuff together are trying desperately to convince (spelled "con") that IBM and it's thieving executives are providing value for $$$ through AI and hybrid cloud platforms. Oh really ?? (No mention of layoffs though)" (see the first comment at the bottom; admission of the layoffs is recorded to have come from the CFO)
Someone else comments on a new partnership with ARM, which competes with POWER. As one person put it: "Companies look to ARM for their low power cloud compute workloads where X86 is too expensive and/or too power intensive. IBM's brilliant idea is to convince them to run these workloads on a mainframe ARM emulator? This doesn't sound strategic, it sounds like IBM panicking because they're seeing more and more erosion of mainframe utilization at their key clients."
The mainframe business is waning for many reasons. IBM has hardly created anything new; it became a reseller with low-level and low-paid staff.
IBM is going nowhere, fast. █