●● IRC: #techbytes @ Techrights IRC Network: Wednesday, October 02, 2024 ●● ● Oct 02 [01:57] *jacobk (~quassel@9fche7smrmvas.irc) has joined #techbytes ● Oct 02 [02:03] *jacobk has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [02:22] *jacobk (~quassel@6wygwq2t5e2hw.irc) has joined #techbytes [02:25] *jacobk has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) ● Oct 02 [03:15] *jacobk (~quassel@yrvfdrbhimppi.irc) has joined #techbytes [03:52] *jacobk has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) ● Oct 02 [05:33] schestowitz[TR2] ""... produced by some half-wit on IBM India's HR team who cannot spell correctly, let alone write a completely correct English sentence." [05:33] schestowitz[TR2] THIS. This is one of my biggest pet peeves. The English language is a beautiful, living thing that reflects the diversity of the people who speak it, but lets not kid ourselves, a corporation should meet a high bar for standardization in its communications, and there has been a noticeable degradation of the English lang in official IBM comms, from corporate communications to documentation. I remember the first time I received an [05:33] schestowitz[TR2] official IBM communication that was straight up written in some kind of pidgin Indian English, that was borderline incomprehensible, and it was honestly shocking. [05:33] schestowitz[TR2] Ive even witnessed, on more than one occasion, Dinesh correcting the pronunciation and denigrating the accents of native speakers of American English (in, frankly, s-xist and racist ways), while no one can understand HIM on a transatlantic call. I even heard them say that they are right to do so because they speak, The Queens English. [05:33] schestowitz[TR2] 2 hours ago by Anonymous [05:33] schestowitz[TR2] | 2 reactions (+2/-0) [05:33] schestowitz[TR2] Post ID: @1zuh+1uMoF9LG [05:33] schestowitz[TR2] +1 [05:33] schestowitz[TR2] 3 months pay? [05:33] schestowitz[TR2] My husband got (1) months pay for every year worked. [05:33] schestowitz[TR2] 24 years [05:33] schestowitz[TR2] And they also axed your 401K [05:33] schestowitz[TR2] Sad. [05:33] schestowitz[TR2] 2 hours ago by Anonymous [05:33] schestowitz[TR2] | 1 reaction (+1/-0) [05:33] schestowitz[TR2] Post ID: @1cvd+1uMoF9LG [05:33] schestowitz[TR2] 0 [05:33] schestowitz[TR2] Ever onward with the layoffs [05:33] schestowitz[TR2] 3 hours ago by Anonymous [05:33] schestowitz[TR2] | no reactions [05:33] schestowitz[TR2] Post ID: @1ekl+1uMoF9LG [05:33] schestowitz[TR2] +3 [05:33] schestowitz[TR2] @ohf [05:33] schestowitz[TR2] Surely you can't be serious - it's an Employee Disengagement survey ! Those are the best kind since they are produced by some half-wit on IBM India's HR team who cannot spell correctly, let alone write a completely correct English sentence. [05:33] schestowitz[TR2] Nonetheless, they get the message across that it's time to pack your bags and go. (unless of course you are a DE, senior exec or even CEO who has been with the company for more than 40 years and needs another medal from the man Modi in India). [05:33] schestowitz[TR2] And, we're off to the IBM layoff races.....it's more fun that the Kentucky derby ! [05:33] schestowitz[TR2] 4 hours ago by Anonymous [05:33] schestowitz[TR2] | 3 reactions (+3/-0) [05:33] schestowitz[TR2] Post ID: @mzu+1uMoF9LG [05:33] schestowitz[TR2] +8 [05:33] schestowitz[TR2] Feels like the right time for the annual Employee Engagement survey! [05:33] schestowitz[TR2] 7 hours ago by Anonymous [05:33] schestowitz[TR2] | 8 reactions (+8/-0) [05:33] schestowitz[TR2] Post ID: @ohf+1uMoF9LG [05:33] schestowitz[TR2] +7 [05:33] schestowitz[TR2] Same for the guy at the top: he or she) can be sacked at any time the board loses confidence in them. [05:33] schestowitz[TR2] But then again he was paid tens of millions a year and will no doubt have a generous exit payment, followed by a lucrative book deal accompanied by a speaking tour. [05:33] schestowitz[TR2] All for: [05:33] schestowitz[TR2] *presiding over the demise of a company that missed major industry trends, [05:33] schestowitz[TR2] *milking old products for cash, [05:33] schestowitz[TR2] *failing to invest in R&D and develop new products, [05:33] schestowitz[TR2] *buying companies at premium prices, only to sell them later at a loss, [05:33] schestowitz[TR2] *alienating clients with coercive practices (e.g. compliance) and high renewal costs, [05:33] schestowitz[TR2] *offshoring jobs to low paid employees in foreign countries, [05:33] schestowitz[TR2] hiring useless senior executives and paying them obscene salaries, [05:33] schestowitz[TR2] *keeping the good news stories flowing to investors and The Street to boost the share price, [05:33] schestowitz[TR2] et cetera, et cetera, et cetera [05:33] schestowitz[TR2] And you, the IBMer, get three months severance and an unaffordable COBRA plan, without a pay raise and the RA g-n to your head for trying to do your best in an increasingly difficult environment. [05:33] schestowitz[TR2] " [05:33] schestowitz[TR2] https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1uMoF9LG [05:35] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes- ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1uMoF9LG ) ● Oct 02 [08:04] *jacobk (~quassel@qm2qkhsqgvw42.irc) has joined #techbytes [08:07] *jacobk has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [08:18] *jacobk (~quassel@nze7sex4gemfs.irc) has joined #techbytes [08:45] *Vengeance has quit (Ping timeout: 120 seconds) [08:50] *Vengeance (~Guest5184@freenode-drv.aab.2jssns.IP) has joined #techbytes [08:56] *Vengeance has quit (Ping timeout: 120 seconds) ● Oct 02 [09:07] *Vengeance (~Guest5184@freenode-drv.aab.2jssns.IP) has joined #techbytes [09:32] *jacobk has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) ● Oct 02 [12:07] schestowitz[TR2] https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1uMoF9LG [12:07] schestowitz[TR2] " Yes it's shocking, simply shocking how low IBM management culture has sunk under Alvind. But, he had the audacity to give himself a 20 million dollar bonus in 2023 for just warming the chair and providing low grade, ho-hum chit chat during his one way monthly Slack chats to IBMers while initiating layoffs and raising the IBM stock price in defiance to the naysayers. [12:07] schestowitz[TR2] Steps for the next layoff wave in the US - Alvind going to give 3 days (!) severance to everyone in the US being laid off in the future to avoid public complaints and whining like this, no matter how long US folks worked at IBM. He realizes that this is particularly painful for those non-Indian executives, STSMs and DEs who have been kissing azz for the past 40 years and making the big bucks. So he sends his advance condolences to [12:07] schestowitz[TR2] you in your time of reflection and sorrow. You voted for Alvind when you asked the IBM board of geriatrics to put him into the CEO office, now you pay the price and suffer the consequences. [12:07] schestowitz[TR2] 24 months severance and one month of severance for every year worked at IBM ? It's unheard of in these times of severe cutbacks coming from Alvind's friends in the White House. After all, everyone needs to tighten their belts, except Alvind of course. It's the economy, stoopid. [12:07] schestowitz[TR2] 1 hour ago by Anonymous [12:07] schestowitz[TR2] | 4 reactions (+4/-0) [12:07] schestowitz[TR2] Post ID: @1jqe+1uMoF9LG [12:07] schestowitz[TR2] +6 [12:07] schestowitz[TR2] @1ekl [12:07] schestowitz[TR2] "Ever onward with the layoffs" [12:07] schestowitz[TR2] Yes, onward and downward with Alvind's pathetic managment culture @IBM [12:07] schestowitz[TR2] 1 hour ago by Anonymous [12:07] schestowitz[TR2] | 8 reactions (+7/-1) [12:07] schestowitz[TR2] Post ID: @1dpg+1uMoF9LG [12:07] schestowitz[TR2] +8 [12:07] schestowitz[TR2] @1zuh [12:07] schestowitz[TR2] "pidgin Indian English" - you said it ! That is exactly the sort of incomprehensible English communication from IBM that we have come to expect from the likes of Dinesh and Alvind. It's definitely not the Queen's English nor the King's English. It's some Indian sewer's rat's attempt by making up some mumbo jumbo, and trying to sell it to the world as a new and exciting AI add-on for English communication. If the old queen was still [12:07] schestowitz[TR2] alive today, she would throw a fit at this garbage, and rightfully so. Alvind and Dinesh would be sent packing to some far off, long-forgotten colony in the Indian ocean with living dinosaurs, of course. [12:07] schestowitz[TR2] It's another nail in the coffin of Alvind's pathetic management culture @IBM. But the IBM stock must go on higher, of course. Where would IBM be without it ? [12:07] schestowitz[TR2] " [12:55] schestowitz[TR2] Re: Julian Assange at Council of Europe: Dissent from unwilling insider [12:55] schestowitz[TR2] > Attn. : Roy Schestowitz [12:55] schestowitz[TR2] > [12:55] schestowitz[TR2] > Dear Sir/Madam, [12:55] schestowitz[TR2] > [12:55] schestowitz[TR2] > Julian Assange is due to speak as a "political prisoner" at the [12:55] schestowitz[TR2] > Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), in Strasbourg, [12:55] schestowitz[TR2] > France, on Tuesday the 1st of October, followed the next day by a [12:55] schestowitz[TR2] > debate. As a "reluctant insider to a jurisdiction adhering to the [12:55] schestowitz[TR2] > European Convention on Human Rights", I dissent. [12:55] schestowitz[TR2] > [12:55] schestowitz[TR2] > Sincerely, [12:55] schestowitz[TR2] > [12:55] schestowitz[TR2] > Erwann Rogard [12:55] schestowitz[TR2] > [12:55] schestowitz[TR2] > PS: If a) you are not the person named after Attn., but b) have a [12:55] schestowitz[TR2] > working relationship with them, please forward appropriately. If a) [12:55] schestowitz[TR2] > applies but not b), please inform me of my mistake. [12:55] schestowitz[TR2] > [12:55] schestowitz[TR2] > Enclosed: My letter to Lord Richard Keen, Chairperson of the Committee [12:55] schestowitz[TR2] > on Legal Affairs and Human Rights. ● Oct 02 [13:00] schestowitz[TR2] > I was in the UK for a few days last week and it looks like I'll be back [13:00] schestowitz[TR2] > again later this month. I'm still keen to follow up on these things. [13:00] schestowitz[TR2] If you're near here we should meet up. I didn't have much I can say regarding the previous message. So I delayed a reply. ● Oct 02 [14:36] *psydroid2 (~psydroid@gcs5ikfy64ubg.irc) has joined #techbytes ● Oct 02 [15:29] *parsifal (~parsifal@6thegygyadsu4.irc) has joined #techbytes [15:30] *parsifal has quit (Quit: Leaving) ● Oct 02 [17:18] *psydroid2 has quit (Quit: KVIrc 5.0.0 Aria http://www.kvirc.net/) [17:23] *psydroid2 (~psydroid@gcs5ikfy64ubg.irc) has joined #techbytes ● Oct 02 [18:58] schestowitz[TR2] https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1uMoF9LG [18:58] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes- ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1uMoF9LG ) [18:59] schestowitz[TR2] " [18:59] schestowitz[TR2] (1) months pay for every year worked? Are you sure? I got (1) weeks pay for every 6 months I worked, but that was back in 1992 with the ITO-2... [18:59] schestowitz[TR2] 23 minutes ago by Anonymous [18:59] schestowitz[TR2] | no reactions [18:59] schestowitz[TR2] Post ID: @1cxr+1uMoF9LG [18:59] schestowitz[TR2] +3 [18:59] schestowitz[TR2] @1gdf+1uMoF9LG AK literally pledged to Modi to help the Indian economy. Has he done that with the head of state of any other nation? Anyone who has spent any time at IBM knows exactly whats going on. Dont gaslight people and tell them that Arvind doesnt play favorites when it comes to nationality and ethnicity. [18:59] schestowitz[TR2] 2 hours ago by Anonymous [18:59] schestowitz[TR2] | 3 reactions (+3/-0) [18:59] schestowitz[TR2] Post ID: @1bha+1uMoF9LG [18:59] schestowitz[TR2] 0 [18:59] schestowitz[TR2] 1psv Last time I looked Martin Schroeder (who isnt Indian) off shored 90% of GTS when he was an IBMer to India, then continued the practice when he became CEO of Kyndryl. I dont think the nationality of any CEO makes them decide where to deploy labor, but rather the cost of that labor is the deciding factor. [18:59] schestowitz[TR2] 3 hours ago by Anonymous [18:59] schestowitz[TR2] | 2 reactions (+1/-1) [18:59] schestowitz[TR2] Post ID: @1gdf+1uMoF9LG [18:59] schestowitz[TR2] +1 [18:59] schestowitz[TR2] If AK wasnt Indian, he would never had been selected by the board to be CEO, because the board needed an Indian to move the jobs to India to save money. [18:59] schestowitz[TR2] 5 hours ago by Anonymous [18:59] schestowitz[TR2] | 7 reactions (+4/-3) [18:59] schestowitz[TR2] Post ID: @1psv+1uMoF9LG [18:59] schestowitz[TR2] +8 [18:59] schestowitz[TR2] Alvind has been selected by the board to cleanup that mess ; he is in here for himself so he doesnt care about the US employees who are being axed; he cares about his job and his $$ compensation because he knows is in on an ejectable seat too. This is just business [18:59] schestowitz[TR2] 5 hours ago by Anonymous [18:59] schestowitz[TR2] | 8 reactions (+8/-0) [18:59] schestowitz[TR2] Post ID: @1udl+1uMoF9LG [18:59] schestowitz[TR2] +1 [18:59] schestowitz[TR2] @1uku [18:59] schestowitz[TR2] Why doesn't Alvind forgo his huge and extravagant bonus for a change ? [18:59] schestowitz[TR2] I'm interested in hearing your reply or is it going to be the deafening silence from India HR Pipmunks ? [18:59] schestowitz[TR2] 5 hours ago by Anonymous [18:59] schestowitz[TR2] | 11 reactions (+6/-5) [18:59] schestowitz[TR2] Post ID: @1qza+1uMoF9LG [18:59] schestowitz[TR2] +2 [18:59] schestowitz[TR2] Considering all the costs of a US employee( salary, stock, bonus, medical insurance, social security, cost of renting office, etc..) , a US employee may cost at much as 4 employees from India or more. So from Wall Street investors and the board perspective, the math is easy, considering high cost of living, inflation. [18:59] schestowitz[TR2] Arvind reports to the board and gets paid many $$$ millions to execute these changes. [18:59] schestowitz[TR2] If he doesnt make these changes, IBM will go bankrupt [18:59] schestowitz[TR2] " ● Oct 02 [21:41] *psydroid2 has quit (Quit: KVIrc 5.0.0 Aria http://www.kvirc.net/)