TheLayoff.com is Deleting Comments About IBM Offshoring

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jul 04, 2026

Some hours ago we posted screenshots of a thread we predicted would soon get censored. Indeed, the latest two comments (maybe more) have since then been deleted. We've reviewed them both (based on the backup) and it seems like the word "India" has been sort of banned. Or may suffice to warrant a ban, depending on the context or connotations implied.

We therefore assume many of the following comments will also be deleted, maybe even during the weekend. We don't endorse what is in those comments, we just highlight some more interesting bits in them:

Pointed out above (with arrow) is a rant about a deleted comment. We've found at least 3 (so far) deleted comments, not just one.

We made backups earlier. Here is the comment (alluded to above) that got deleted:

Even more interesting, look at the average salary these 3061 H1B folks earn at IBM - $148578 ! That is not exactly chicken feed ; they cost $454 million every year.

What extra are these people doing to justify their enormous salaries ? Are they friends and relatives of Arvind on the IBM India Friends and Family plan ? Or Krabanaugh and other Pipmunks ? This should be investigated by the Feds.

Doesn't the US have enough good technologists in this country or IBM isn't looking hard enough ? This is a travesty. Send these H1B crooks back home.

That got censored, but not the troll who posted right after that. Another deleted comment:

H-1B visas are legally born flesh immigration got nothing do with their hard work and honest dedication it shows unlike white boogers hiding behind a paywall system of fraud and corruption using lady Liberty Trump MAGA shitposts dating back to 2016 have nothing better to gain from India 🇮🇳 immigrants we ain’t anyone’s laughing stock punching bag or doormat so your 4th of July will go to waste cause your forfathers stole land from original native tribes forcing them to recolate with 13 colonies cowards that planned and plotted their own demise. White boogers own nothing till shop and ship to Europe where real liberty exists! MIGA! Ya Hear!

Another (later) deleted comment:

take your Indian garbage excuses about colonialism and stay home....the US did not colonize India if you check at your history books. This a nothing but a travesty when US citizens are being denied jobs but H1B crooks from India get over $150000 in salaries. Why do they have to be onshore employees when it is cheaper to do the jobs offshore ?

At IBM, US citizens are being given the lowest wages, but Indian H1Bs get top billing. How about having the H1Bs train US citizens for the jobs they do? That would be a fair approach but no doubt Arvind has got a hot line to Trump's office to squash any public embarrassment about IBM.

Nickel and Dime is a thief, that is why she hangs around knowing there is more loot to grab. Something is wrong with this picture and the Dept. Of Labor needs to be sent these links ASAP.

Again, we are not in any way endorsing these comments, we just want to illuminate what sort of comments get deleted and leave people to assume why they're deleted (or who by).

Meanwhile, rage-baiting Internet trolls and sometimes trolls who paste in LLM slop are de facto immune from censorship.

In another thread someone has just said: "IBM became corrupt the day it hired McKinsey and Company and put Dead Gerbil at helm as the IBM CEO. Since then it has just gone downhill because every single CEO from Dead Gerbil until the present loser, Arvind Krispy-Kreme has been focused on outsourcing jobs (they migrate jobs to lower cost countries and call it a transformation without achieving any significant, ongoing, measurable improvements), financial engineering, cost cutting and all the while, increasing their bonuses. You cannot have a reliable path to growth in a company by relentlessly cutting people, products and divisions. Something's gotta give ! And it's happening at IBM."

Will that be deleted for saying "Arvind Krispy-Kreme"? (I don't get the reference, maybe visual similarities)

Is every criticism of the CEO considered racist? If so, did IBM's Board of Directors identify a "secret weapon" against managerial criticism? First "sexism" (Ginni) and now "racism"? █