●● IRC: #techbytes @ Techrights IRC Network: Monday, July 06, 2026 ●● ● Jul 06 [00:45] *x-amarsh04 has quit (Quit: Konversation terminated!) [00:46] *x-amarsh04 (~amarsh04@xk49uzi5amp4u.irc) has joined #techbytes [00:47] *x-amarsh04 has quit (Quit: Konversation terminated!) [00:52] *x-amarsh04 (~amarsh04@xk49uzi5amp4u.irc) has joined #techbytes ● Jul 06 [05:30] schestowitz[TR2] " [05:30] schestowitz[TR2] It might go more quickly since the weekend lull extends to Tuesday and [05:30] schestowitz[TR2] it was a holiday weekend in the US, and it is summer in the northern [05:30] schestowitz[TR2] hemisphere. [05:30] schestowitz[TR2] However, I think more of the material these days comes from blogs and [05:30] schestowitz[TR2] those don't fall into such a pattern. " [05:31] schestowitz[TR2] Re: The July 2026 Issue of the PCLinuxOS Magazine [05:31] schestowitz[TR2] > Thanks! Hope you had a good 4th as well! ● Jul 06 [06:15] schestowitz[TR2] https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kwkytyh3 [06:15] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes- ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kwkytyh3 ) [06:15] schestowitz[TR2] "You said "It's late in India. " [06:15] schestowitz[TR2] Does that mean you are an American in India ? Why would IBM need you there since you are nothing but a band 6 ? Band 6 Americans don't just get a "passage to India" unless they show exceptional talent and you don't display above average skills or intelligence on this site. Just a lot of boasting about your worthless achievements about your garbage Think40 hours and badges that no one could care less about. What achievements do you [06:15] schestowitz[TR2] really have ? NONE. You have no intellectual capital, no papers you have presented and noting but the cr-p you repeat like a freaking toy parrot. And you do a bad job of that also. In short, you are full of bull. Oh and hate, vitriol, bile, spleens and vomit too. [06:15] schestowitz[TR2] I think you are liar, a pathetic BOT and a con-artist, just like your Sugar Daddies, Arvind and Krabanaugh. So, IBM India HR liar-bot rage-bait troll shill spanky-pants id--t loser parasite, go play with your aunties. [06:15] schestowitz[TR2] 6 hours ago by Anonymous [06:15] schestowitz[TR2] | 3 reactions (+3/-0) | Reply [06:15] schestowitz[TR2] Post ID: @n1+1kwkytyh3 [06:15] schestowitz[TR2] +3 [06:15] schestowitz[TR2] @mr Do you play hide the salami with Alvind and Krabanaugh ? [06:15] schestowitz[TR2] Who wins ? [06:15] schestowitz[TR2] Sure you can tell us, IBM India HR liar-bot rage-bait troll shill spanky-pants id--t loser parasite. Remember that you are among friends. [06:15] schestowitz[TR2] 6 hours ago by Anonymous [06:15] schestowitz[TR2] | 3 reactions (+3/-0) | Reply [06:15] schestowitz[TR2] Post ID: @my+1kwkytyh3 [06:15] schestowitz[TR2] +3 [06:15] schestowitz[TR2] @mr And you're just a creep. How can you stand yourself? How can Arvind? Does he make you dress up as Kali when you service him? [06:15] schestowitz[TR2] 7 hours ago by Anonymous [06:15] schestowitz[TR2] | 3 reactions (+3/-0) | Reply [06:15] schestowitz[TR2] Post ID: @mt+1kwkytyh3 [06:15] schestowitz[TR2] -4 [06:15] schestowitz[TR2] @mb [06:15] schestowitz[TR2] You are creepy and full of hate. [06:15] schestowitz[TR2] 7 hours ago by Anonymous [06:15] schestowitz[TR2] | 4 reactions (+0/-4) | Reply [06:15] schestowitz[TR2] Post ID: @mr+1kwkytyh3 [06:15] schestowitz[TR2] +2 [06:15] schestowitz[TR2] @m8 I think you're a super id--t who likes the smell of Arvind's stinky a--hole. Why does that bother YOU? [06:15] schestowitz[TR2] 9 hours ago by Anonymous [06:15] schestowitz[TR2] | 2 reactions (+2/-0) | Reply [06:15] schestowitz[TR2] Post ID: @mb+1kwkytyh3 [06:15] schestowitz[TR2] -6 [06:15] schestowitz[TR2] @m3 [06:15] schestowitz[TR2] It's late in India. Why would you think I am some India HR Bot? [06:15] schestowitz[TR2] I am an American extremely proud to be with IBM. That is right I am a band 6 anf I know Band 7 is imminent. [06:15] schestowitz[TR2] I am working on another badge now. I am a super learner. Why does that bother you? [06:15] schestowitz[TR2] 10 hours ago by Anonymous [06:15] schestowitz[TR2] | 6 reactions (+0/-6) | Reply [06:15] schestowitz[TR2] Post ID: @m8+1kwkytyh3 [06:15] schestowitz[TR2] +3 [06:15] schestowitz[TR2] @m2 And may your chicken biryani be tainted and give you explosive diarrhea and may IBM collapse under the weight of its lies and useless products. Sh-----d and shithole! [06:15] schestowitz[TR2] 10 hours ago by Anonymous [06:15] schestowitz[TR2] | 3 reactions (+3/-0) | Reply [06:15] schestowitz[TR2] Post ID: @m4+1kwkytyh3 [06:15] schestowitz[TR2] +5 [06:15] schestowitz[TR2] @m2 Who the fu-k says things like "the hate spews hot and thick" except an HR rep from India? How the fu-k can you stand working as an IBM shill pretending to be an American Band 6? I hope they pay you well to keep your head so high up Arvind's a-s. Your job su-ks! I'd be sui-idal if I had to spew pro-IBM propaganda all day. What other sites do you monitor and "correct"? Id--t. [06:15] schestowitz[TR2] " ● Jul 06 [07:51] *agentcas2y (~dracos@8pzu2fcsusfzc.irc) has joined #techbytes [07:52] *agentcas2y is now known as agentcasey ● Jul 06 [13:12] *psydroid2 (~psydroid@kcvnmgbxt8eqq.irc) has joined #techbytes [13:15] schestowitz[TR2] admfubar> was just reading "IBM's Fall" that was just posted, are you the one that grew up respecting ibm? [13:15] schestowitz[TR2] me thinks you need to rearrange the GAFAM, to AMFAG [13:15] schestowitz[TR2] :P [13:15] schestowitz[TR2] IBM was revered 40 years ago ● Jul 06 [16:36] *psydroid2 has quit (Quit: KVIrc 5.2.10 Quasar http://www.kvirc.net/) [16:36] *psydroid2 (~psydroid@kcvnmgbxt8eqq.irc) has joined #techbytes ● Jul 06 [17:46] *psydroid2 has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) ● Jul 06 [18:22] schestowitz[TR2] naw 40' years ago the general public had learned how nasty ibm was. remember they were a company founded on revenge. [18:35] *psydroid2 (~psydroid@kcvnmgbxt8eqq.irc) has joined #techbytes ● Jul 06 [19:27] *x-amarsh04 has quit (Quit: Konversation terminated!) [19:31] *x-amarsh04 (~amarsh04@xk49uzi5amp4u.irc) has joined #techbytes [19:54] schestowitz[TR2] The plan was to offshore jobs to India (AI = Actually Indians) or just eliminate them entirely and then hope that AI (Artificial Intelligence) would advance enough to actually do the jobs in the near future. AI (Artificial Intelligence) hasn't advanced as much as hoped and AI (Actually Indians) well we always knew would not be up to the task. Now it's time to pay the piper, because the work still needs to get done. [19:54] schestowitz[TR2] 5 hours ago by Anonymous [19:54] schestowitz[TR2] | 1 reaction (+1/-0) | Reply [19:54] schestowitz[TR2] Post ID: @hj+1kwqgs5b5 [19:54] schestowitz[TR2] 0 [19:54] schestowitz[TR2] @hd do you mean hide the salami business, IBM India HR liar-bot rage-bait troll shill spanky-pants id--t loser parasite ? [19:54] schestowitz[TR2] Are you an American living in India or just an Indian pretending to be living in the US ? [19:54] schestowitz[TR2] LOL [19:54] schestowitz[TR2] 5 hours ago by Anonymous [19:54] schestowitz[TR2] | no reactions | Reply [19:54] schestowitz[TR2] Post ID: @hh+1kwqgs5b5 [19:54] schestowitz[TR2] 0 [19:54] schestowitz[TR2] @dv [19:54] schestowitz[TR2] IBM Executives are among the best in the business. [19:54] schestowitz[TR2] https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kwqgs5b5 [19:54] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes- ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kwqgs5b5 ) [19:55] schestowitz[TR2] https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kwt3gwt6 [19:55] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes- ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kwt3gwt6 ) [19:55] schestowitz[TR2] " [19:55] schestowitz[TR2] I was chocked for a couple of weeks, after the POS manager informed me that I was to be let go. The reason, I was too expensive. [19:55] schestowitz[TR2] It took me a couple of weeks to process the new situation. To my surprise, someone contacted me from a competitor company offering a position. [19:55] schestowitz[TR2] Now, I am more relaxed, I work shorter hours, I enjoy my current job. It allows me to be creative. No pressure or stress. I do, what I deem necessary to be done. [19:55] schestowitz[TR2] No working weekends .... [19:55] schestowitz[TR2] There is life after IBM. Given that IBM is a really sh---y workplace. [19:55] schestowitz[TR2] 4 hours ago by Anonymous [19:55] schestowitz[TR2] | 4 reactions (+4/-0) | Reply [19:55] schestowitz[TR2] Post ID: @d6+1kwt3gwt6 [19:55] schestowitz[TR2] -4 [19:55] schestowitz[TR2] @ca [19:55] schestowitz[TR2] Wrong I am not from India or an HR Bot. [19:55] schestowitz[TR2] 5 hours ago by Anonymous [19:55] schestowitz[TR2] | 4 reactions (+0/-4) | Reply [19:55] schestowitz[TR2] Post ID: @cx+1kwt3gwt6 [19:55] schestowitz[TR2] +1 [19:55] schestowitz[TR2] I took 3 vacations. It's a great feeling not to have the Sunday scaries anymore [19:55] schestowitz[TR2] 6 hours ago by Anonymous [19:55] schestowitz[TR2] | 3 reactions (+2/-1) | Reply [19:55] schestowitz[TR2] Post ID: @cw+1kwt3gwt6 [19:55] schestowitz[TR2] +6 [19:55] schestowitz[TR2] @OP the job market for techies in the US is in the dumps even though Trump says otherwise. Meanwhile Arvind and Nickel and Dime sneak more and more H1B visa holders from our favorite outsourcing country (guess ?) into the US and pay them mouth watering salaries to boot. And the Dept Of Labor looks the other ways of course, when dealing with Trump's "Friends"... [19:55] schestowitz[TR2] But this site is always open for mocking the best of the best, IBM India HR liar-bot rage-bait troll shill spanky-pants id--t loser parasite. Where would IBM Pipmunks be without this loser ? [19:55] schestowitz[TR2] " [19:57] schestowitz[TR2] https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kwp8x8bs [19:57] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes- ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kwp8x8bs ) [19:57] schestowitz[TR2] "if you bribe the Trump administration with enough money, they will look the other way and admit as many H1B people as you like. Nickel and Dime and her good buddy Arvind know the ways to get around the immigration system. You grease a few of Trump's children's palms and the doors to the US magically open. No questions asked. It only becomes a problem if you don't grease someone's palms with enough dough. [19:57] schestowitz[TR2] Trump is open for business as President as long as he's raking in the cash. Got it ?? [19:57] schestowitz[TR2] 3 hours ago by Anonymous [19:57] schestowitz[TR2] | 1 reaction (+1/-0) | Reply [19:57] schestowitz[TR2] Post ID: @m4+1kwp8x8bs [19:57] schestowitz[TR2] +3 [19:57] schestowitz[TR2] How is the H1B program even still in effect, given current state of US tech job market? Pause the program and send them back until all the unemployed American tech workers have jobs. [19:57] schestowitz[TR2] 5 hours ago by Anonymous [19:57] schestowitz[TR2] | 3 reactions (+3/-0) | Reply [19:57] schestowitz[TR2] Post ID: @kr+1kwp8x8bs [19:57] schestowitz[TR2] +5 [19:57] schestowitz[TR2] Oh Dearie Me ! [19:57] schestowitz[TR2] The Indian Sys Admin is getting scared of all these responses and deleting them as fast as we write them. Either that or Arvind is scared that his kickback relationship with Trumpmeister will be exposed to the wrong people in the room - the people who are not the subservient Indians who get the H1B visas and the big bucks. These people are not even Tamil Class 5 dogs but they keep on writing about their horrible work experiences at [19:57] schestowitz[TR2] IBM in the US, since he became the official chai walla in the burning dumpster called Armonk. And the pathetic Indian culture that he and the Pipmunks have brought to IBM. Will this sort of negative publicity ever end for Arvind ? Only his God Modi knows. [19:57] schestowitz[TR2] And now the damm fools write about the collusion between the Tamil and Keralites and the H1B scams and the fake university certificates that just happen to be sold at almost every stall vendor from Mumbai to Chennai and Cochin and Trivandurum. What can an IBM CEO do except fire someone, especially the ones who write these postings for the public to be aware of ? Except that the ones writing these postings on the layoff web site are [19:57] schestowitz[TR2] the ones Arvind laid off already or put on PIPs. Oh Dearie Me ! What a terrible dilemma ! [19:57] schestowitz[TR2] " [19:59] schestowitz[TR2] https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kwvexhrf [19:59] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes- ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kwvexhrf ) [19:59] schestowitz[TR2] "does ah stand for Azz hole or Azz Hat ? [19:59] schestowitz[TR2] please respond, IBM India HR liar-bot rage-bait troll shill spanky-pants id--t loser parasite [19:59] schestowitz[TR2] 59 minutes ago by Anonymous [19:59] schestowitz[TR2] | no reactions | Reply [19:59] schestowitz[TR2] Post ID: @bf+1kwvexhrf [19:59] schestowitz[TR2] +1 [19:59] schestowitz[TR2] @b2 Sorry typo. This is what IBM is hiring for now. https://www.linkedin.com/posts/theevelyons_the-hardest-decision-isnt-walking-away-from-activity-7391132648854884352-ULaQ?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAAAEq-rYBlAiMX5d5P6fLSN-7huEb6W8qOA0 [19:59] schestowitz[TR2] 3 hours ago by Anonymous [19:59] schestowitz[TR2] | 1 reaction (+1/-0) | Reply [19:59] schestowitz[TR2] Post ID: @b3+1kwvexhrf [19:59] schestowitz[TR2] 0 [19:59] schestowitz[TR2] IBM wants em to look like this now. SMH. https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kwvexhrf [19:59] schestowitz[TR2] 3 hours ago by Anonymous [19:59] schestowitz[TR2] | no reactions | Reply [19:59] schestowitz[TR2] Post ID: @b2+1kwvexhrf [19:59] schestowitz[TR2] +2 [19:59] schestowitz[TR2] @ah : [19:59] schestowitz[TR2] read the post to understand what it is about before commenting you mo--n .. it is not about what yo have learned since 2025 .. if you do want to impress IBM management about your badges and experience, there is a site called LinkedIn.com in case you have not heard about it yet .. also given your ignorance, IBM has a tool called Bob for people just like you, so if you really have trouble comprehending what the post is about, you sho [19:59] schestowitz[TR2] uld cut and paste the text of the post when chatting with Bob to summarize what the post is trying to convey .. [19:59] schestowitz[TR2] 4 hours ago by Anonymous [19:59] schestowitz[TR2] | 2 reactions (+2/-0) | Reply [19:59] schestowitz[TR2] Post ID: @as+1kwvexhrf [19:59] schestowitz[TR2] +4 [19:59] schestowitz[TR2] @ah Well you clearly haven't learned one thing from your experienced colleagues here. For example, you are an id--t. [19:59] schestowitz[TR2] " ● Jul 06 [22:04] *psydroid2 has quit (Quit: KVIrc 5.2.10 Quasar http://www.kvirc.net/)