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| schestowitz[TR2] | Fedora Forge Usage Policy.,https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kyxg78xc | Aug 02 15:56 |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kyxg78xc | Aug 02 15:56 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | "Agreed. Too many bad actors saw an opportunity to consolidate power for their own self-interest. They then surrounded themselves with friends, allies, and loyalists to reinforce their positions. Others watched this succeed and replicated the same approach within their own organizations. | Aug 02 15:56 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | IBM management was once criticized as an “old boys’ club,” dominated by a narrow leadership circle. But replacing one exclusive inner circle with another doesn’t solve the underlying problem—it simply changes who benefits. When advancement depends on being part of the right network rather than on performance, merit inevitably suffers. | Aug 02 15:56 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | This is why hard work, technical excellence, and measurable accomplishments no longer carry the weight they once did at IBM. Increasingly, career progression seems to depend on being recognized and sponsored by the right inner circle rather than on consistently delivering results. It is also why IBM management and leadership does not carry the respect it once did. | Aug 02 15:56 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | 8 minutes ago by Anonymous | Aug 02 15:56 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | | no reactions | Reply | Aug 02 15:56 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Post ID: @gy+1kyxg78xc | Aug 02 15:56 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | +2 | Aug 02 15:56 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | @d4 IBM management took a steep nose dive around year 3 of Palmisano. It’s around that time that IBM replaced its simple, core values Executive Leadership Principles with a new, high-falutin, buzzword heavy, but principle light version because execs were scoring too high on the old metrics. Scoring high on them consistently quarter after quarter was the whole idea and it worked until Sam replaced it. At about that same time he we | Aug 02 15:56 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | nt on an executive hiring binge and let the snakes slither in. | Aug 02 15:56 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | That also happens to be the first year that my submission to the ancient IBM executive and technical leadership competency tracking system was rejected for being too honest. I was told the mandatory rating distribution across categories and in which categories I was to be marginally and seriously deficient as a matter of unwritten corporate policy independent of reality. If cooking the books works for finance, why not do it for pla | Aug 02 15:56 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | nning the future high level leadership of the company as well. | Aug 02 15:56 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Good people do still occasionally get su-ked into IBM executive positions. The acid test in the 21st century is whether they survive for two years. The survivors have black hearts and corrupt souls. | Aug 02 15:56 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | 27 minutes ago by Anonymous | Aug 02 15:56 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | | 2 reactions (+2/-0) | Reply | Aug 02 15:56 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Post ID: @gx+1kyxg78xc | Aug 02 15:56 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | +1 | Aug 02 15:56 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | @gh Doesn't seem fair. He didn't even need to work for it. | Aug 02 15:56 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | 34 minutes ago by Anonymous | Aug 02 15:56 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | | 1 reaction (+1/-0) | Reply | Aug 02 15:56 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Post ID: @gw+1kyxg78xc | Aug 02 15:56 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | +3 | Aug 02 15:56 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | @g5 Alvind, the slimy Indian parasite, earned a new badge, cockroach. He must feel very proud. | Aug 02 15:56 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | 2 hours ago by Anonymous | Aug 02 15:56 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | | 3 reactions (+3/-0) | Reply | Aug 02 15:56 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Post ID: @gh+1kyxg78xc | Aug 02 15:56 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | +11 | Aug 02 15:56 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | @d4, @de IBM Management started to be become a industry joke under Gin 'N Tonic. She was the egomaniac who built and destroyed Watson Healthcare in a sitting without even trying. Management continues as the industry laughingstock under the Indian cockroach CEO, Arvind Krishna who failed with spectacularly with Cloud and AI, and now looks for further humiliation with Quantum computing diarrhea. But Cramer keeps giving IBM great revi | Aug 02 15:56 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | ews, so he must be on to a good thing. He's likely milking IBM out of a good amount of $$$ under the table, because it's evident that he (Cramer) sure doesn't know a thing about Quantum computing, but he keeps yapping as though he does. He's nothing but an ex-used car salesman on TV. | Aug 02 15:56 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | 4 hours ago by Anonymous | Aug 02 15:56 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | | 11 reactions (+11/-0) | Reply | Aug 02 15:56 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Post ID: @g5+1kyxg78xc | Aug 02 15:56 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | +11 | Aug 02 15:56 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | @d4 IBM management is an industry joke now. Stopped being premium in the early 90s. All the managers now are coasting in two decades old reputation that is rapidly running out of runway. The current ones will be remembered as the ones that ki-led a 115 year old blue chip institution | Aug 02 15:56 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | " | Aug 02 15:56 |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kyx0wnte | Aug 02 18:46 |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | "Promotions (and Bonuses) are only for underserving Indian CEO Cockroaches like Alvind." | Aug 02 18:46 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kyxtdzrm | Aug 02 18:47 |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | "You give it a new IBM Badge labelled "Cockroach Quantum Basics" and name it Alvind. Then ask IBM HR to onboard it and assign it an office in Armonk. | Aug 02 18:47 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | 22 minutes ago by Anonymous | Aug 02 18:47 |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | Post ID: @gx+1kyxtdzrm | Aug 02 18:47 |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | There once was a Cockroach... | Aug 02 18:47 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | He wears a coat of shiny brown, | Aug 02 18:47 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | The boldest little king in town. | Aug 02 18:47 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | He does not pay a cent in rent, | Aug 02 18:47 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Yet owns the space beneath the vent. | Aug 02 18:47 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | I flick the light! He starts to freeze, | Aug 02 18:47 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Then wobbles on six tiny knees. | Aug 02 18:47 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | He tries to dash, he starts to slide, | Aug 02 18:47 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | With nowhere in the world to hide. | Aug 02 18:47 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | A master of the panic scurry, | Aug 02 18:47 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | In such a fierce and frantic flurry! | Aug 02 18:47 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Farewell, my armored little guest, | Aug 02 18:47 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Go find a darker place to rest. | Aug 02 18:47 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | 22 minutes ago by Anonymous | Aug 02 18:47 |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | Post ID: @gw+1kyxtdzrm | Aug 02 18:47 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | +14 | Aug 02 18:47 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | @dh how do you dehumanize a cockroach? | Aug 02 18:47 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | " | Aug 02 18:47 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kyxg78xc | Aug 02 18:47 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | "t’s Indian and Asian who took the white model and kicked them out | Aug 02 18:47 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | 1 hour ago by Anonymous | Aug 02 18:47 |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | Post ID: @h7+1kyxg78xc | Aug 02 18:47 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | +3 | Aug 02 18:47 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | @h5 Now it's a cockroach and co-k su-kas club. | Aug 02 18:47 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | 1 hour ago by Anonymous | Aug 02 18:47 |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | Post ID: @h6+1kyxg78xc | Aug 02 18:47 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | +3 | Aug 02 18:47 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | @gy "IBM management was once criticized as an “old boys’ club,” dominated by a narrow leadership circle. " | Aug 02 18:47 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | To be precise; IBM management used to be "old WHITE boys club". In recent years, it became ""old WHITE and INDIAN boys club". | Aug 02 18:47 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | " | Aug 02 18:47 |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | "It is surprising how *little* financial support GNOME and KDE get from major companies. | Aug 02 20:17 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Considering the fact that *all* of the large “Enterprise” Linux companies (Red Hat / IBM, Canonical, SUSE, Oracle, etc.) ship with GNOME by default, only a small number contribute financially. And, those that do contribute incredibly small amounts. Humorously small. | Aug 02 20:17 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | The GNOME Foundation has been teetering on the brink of bankruptcy for some time now, despite nearly universal adoption among the largest Linux companies. | Aug 02 20:17 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Likewise, KDE has a list of companies which are “Supporting Members”… but very few of those actually contribute financially. Those that do provide funds for KDE, do so in very small amounts. | Aug 02 20:17 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Most of the KDE “Supporting Member” companies are small firms that simply have some sort of (typically non-financial) agreement with KDE. Mutual promotion. Putting a KDE sticker on a piece of hardware. That sort of thing. | Aug 02 20:17 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | And all of these companies are *very* aware of the extreme Leftist Political Activism of both KDE and GNOME. They are supportive (or indifferent) to it." | Aug 02 20:17 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | MS lUndukje | Aug 02 20:17 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | "“I didn’t run that red light, officer! The car did!” | Aug 02 20:21 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | “I didn’t shoot that person! The gun did!” | Aug 02 20:21 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Neither of those arguments hold up in court (or make any sense at all). | Aug 02 20:21 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Why should: | Aug 02 20:21 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | “I didn’t plagiarize that code! The AI did!” | Aug 02 20:21 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | “I didn’t write those libelous, defamatory lies! That was the AI!” | Aug 02 20:21 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | “I didn’t hack into that server, steal data, and publish it online! The AI did it!”" | Aug 02 20:21 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | "AI is, increasingly, becoming a way to commit crimes… without anyone being held accountable. | Aug 02 20:23 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | - AI LLM’s commit plagiarism (copying code, text, images, and video without crediting the original creators). | Aug 02 20:23 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | - AI hacks into corporate servers and steals data. | Aug 02 20:23 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | - AI publishes stolen works publicly. | Aug 02 20:23 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | - AI publishes libelous and defamatory statements about people. | Aug 02 20:23 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | If you replaced “AI” with “a guy named Ted Smith”, every one of those would potentially end up in court. Some as civil cases, others as violations of criminal law. | Aug 02 20:23 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | But, since these offenses were committed using AI, nobody is held responsible. | Aug 02 20:23 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Even though many of the crimes are committed at the command of human (and, often, corporate) controllers." | Aug 02 20:23 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | ""AI is becoming increasingly useful. | Aug 02 20:23 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | AI is an amazing feat of engineering. | Aug 02 20:23 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | AI is annoying and overused. | Aug 02 20:23 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | AI creates significant new problems, on a potentially catastrophic scale. | Aug 02 20:23 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | All of these things are true at the same time. | Aug 02 20:23 |
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