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| schestowitz[TR2] | Arvind has been telling a fairy tale to the board and investors for the last 2-3 years and needs to go. Rob has failed at running SW and is not the guy to replace him. Mohamad has failed at running Consulting (other than running it into the ground). Jim, Joanne, and Nickle are not the right people to lead Ops. That's the message that needs to be heard. The entire top needs to be lopped off and replaced with fresh blood. Even the Bo | Jul 20 15:48 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | D is mainly a bunch of geriatrics completely out of touch with the market. It's going to take the stock dropping below $160 (and believe me, it's coming) to force a revolt from BlackRock, State Street, and Vanguard to clean house. | Jul 20 15:48 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | 22 minutes ago by Anonymous | Jul 20 15:48 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | | 4 reactions (+4/-0) | Reply | Jul 20 15:48 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Post ID: @an+1kxzjsn6a | Jul 20 15:48 |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | Like others have pointed out, data and facts are often ignored when they don’t fit leadership’s narrative. This has been especially true at the Albany site, where all of us have seen objective evidence dismissed in favor of a story that better serves individual leaders’ agendas and personal objectives. | Jul 20 15:48 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | 1 hour ago by Anonymous | Jul 20 15:48 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | | no reactions | Reply | Jul 20 15:48 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Post ID: @ah+1kxzjsn6a | Jul 20 15:48 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | +2 | Jul 20 15:48 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | @OP Rob T never struck me as the type of person who understands or cares that the engine of a good business is an employee base who feels appreciated. He also never struck me as the kind of person who has the ability to admit that he made a huge mistake. He DOES strike me as the type who will always blame others for things he messed up. He lacks humility and he just doesn’t get it. Typical poor executive. He ruined the entire Sal | Jul 20 15:48 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | es organization. All that’s left is to see how many IBMers and their families will now pay for his mistakes. | Jul 20 15:48 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | 2 hours ago by Anonymous | Jul 20 15:48 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | | 2 reactions (+2/-0) | Reply | Jul 20 15:48 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Post ID: @ab+1kxzjsn6a | Jul 20 15:48 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | +5 | Jul 20 15:48 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | @OP Can I get an AMEN!!! This is exactly how many of us feel today. Too bad Rob will never read this, because he needs to...badly. You know what though? Even if he DID read this, he wouldn't actually understand it. He's to self-important to think the problem is actually him, which it is. We watched him destroy the Sales, Tech Sales and CSM organizations without batting an eye. Now we're all paying for his complete and utter incompe | Jul 20 15:48 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | tence. I wish the guy would just resign and let someone who knows what they're doing step in, but it's probably too late for many of us. | Jul 20 15:48 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | " | Jul 20 15:48 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Monday Growth message, July 20th 2026 | Jul 20 15:48 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | “You saw our preliminary results… The first step is just to own it.” We already do. Every single one of us on the ground owns our number, every quarter, no matter how the goalposts moved that quarter. So let’s talk about ownership both ways: what exactly do you own here? Not the words “own it” in a Monday message : the actual outcome. What’s the consequence for you when the results miss? Who’s putting you on a PIP? | Jul 20 15:48 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Nobody around you says this out loud, so I will: we had real leaders who could have told you this a year ago, and they didn’t leave for a better offer .... they got pushed out because they tried to correct you. You don’t get to say “no deflection, no excuses” while the people most likely to challenge the plan are the ones no longer in the building, because they challenged it. | Jul 20 15:48 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Maybe IBM’s software problem isn’t the market, isn’t the customers, isn’t even the products. Maybe it’s you. Look at the CROs and software leaders actually winning out there right now. do you really think they run their orgs the way you run this one? Reshuffling structure every six months, pushing out anyone who isn’t aligned, surrounding yourself with people too scared to push back? That’s not how growth companies be | Jul 20 15:48 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | have. That’s how companies behave right before they lose the people who could have saved them. | Jul 20 15:48 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | And look at how these decisions actually get made: under panic, not conviction. Every reorg lands like an emergency reaction to a bad quarter, not a plan anyone thought through. And somehow, in that panic, we’re the ones treated like zero, like we can’t understand a reorg, like we’re not agile enough, like we’re the ones resisting transformation. We are exactly those things. We adapt every single time you ask us to, on a sh | Jul 20 15:48 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | orter timeline than any of you have to answer for. What we’re fed up with is taking transformation advice from the worst-performing leadership in the room, delivered in a panic, and then being blamed when the panic doesn’t produce results. | Jul 20 15:48 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | And on that note: when you write “we are putting more attention on software consumption,” who exactly is “we”? You and McKinsey in a slide deck, or you and the people actually sitting in front of customers who could tell you months ago that this was coming? Because from where I sit, “we” hasn’t included us in a long time : it’s included consultants who get paid regardless of whether the plan works, and employees who | Jul 20 15:48 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | inherit the plan with no say in it. | Jul 20 15:48 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | “Every Second Counts” is a good line for a kitchen sign. It’s a bad operating model for enterprise software. Nobody sells real value in one or two quarters. Value takes time to build because it’s built on trust, and trust takes longer to earn back than it takes to lose. Nobody deploys software in one or two quarters either, because deployment runs on the customer’s timeline and their business needs, not ours. If every sec | Jul 20 15:48 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | ond really counts, the first thing that should buy us is more discipline before changing structures, incentives, and coverage models mid-year : not less. | Jul 20 15:48 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Here’s my Monday growth message back to you: a leader is accountable to the people below him, not just to the market above him. That means listening to employees and customers before restructuring around them, not after. It means being able to say “I was wrong” and “this is going to take longer than I promised,” out loud, without spinning it into a hype line for the next town hall. We show up accountable every day, on our | Jul 20 15:48 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | numbers, on our customers, on our word. I’m asking you to show the same thing back .... not another recap of initiatives, but an honest account of what you got wrong and what you’re doing to fix it, including how it affects the people asked to execute it with less time and fewer resources than the plan pretends. | Jul 20 15:48 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | We’re not asking for perfection. We’re asking for the truth, and for someone to actually be willing to hear it. | Jul 20 15:48 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kxzjsn6a | Jul 20 15:48 |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | https://www.inc.com/fast-company-2/microsoft-offers-laid-off-employees-severance-compensation-unemployment-benefits/91376985 | Jul 20 21:55 |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | " there are some people in Albany who seem to have job security . They can get away with doing far less than most ny state workers. And they are high pay bands (they’ve all been there at the site at least 20 years, usually with ibm a lot longer), the work they do isn’t even critical. It’s sometimes about having dirt on people that makes them afraid to touch you | Jul 20 21:55 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | 23 minutes ago by Anonymous | Jul 20 21:55 |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | @OP Your manager says you're crucial, which means absolutely essential. The team cannot succeed without you. Therefore you have 100% job security. | Jul 20 21:55 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | 27 minutes ago by Anonymous | Jul 20 21:55 |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | +2 | Jul 20 21:55 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | @OP you’re not safe. | Jul 20 21:55 |
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