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| schestowitz[TR2] | https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kze4zqty | Aug 23 01:31 |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | " | Aug 23 01:31 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Ohhhh yes, this one is legendary already. Everybody looking around like, “Wait ah… what is happening here?” She keep getting promotion one after another rapidly, like promotion automatically come every time she open email, even though everybody still cannot see exactly what is being delivered. But maybe no need deliver when you are top guy favorite, lah. | Aug 23 01:31 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Her taking over HI was basically corporate saying, “OK, we are done here.” They were throwing in the towel on this team. Honestly, her arrival already feel like official announcement of the team’s demise. Wah. | Aug 23 01:31 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | BUT NO! Plot twist! Instead of asking any questions, she somehow get magically transported upward and promoted AGAIN! Wah, very efficient system—performance problem become promotion opportunity! Team left behind like after typhoon, picking up pieces, while she flying upstairs to collect another big title. | Aug 23 01:31 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Honestly, this no longer corporate promotion culture. This is professional-level comedy. If somebody write this as satire, people say too unrealistic. But Albany say, “Hold my tea.” Wah, cannot make this up already. | Aug 23 01:31 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1m0hx2djm | Aug 23 01:36 |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | Let us all ignore our very obviously American friend, the very aptly named @bs. For @OP, la nouvelle est mauvaise. (I am English Canadian so maybe I need to work on is/are and numbers in grammar. but I am not pig ignorant like @bs. Seriously, what kind of an a-s clown doesn't see German in the post he can't comprehend?) Anyway, PIP goals are mostly legalistic. Everything right now is about proving that they did nothing wrong by wal | Aug 23 01:36 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | king you to the door when they finally do that. Obviously, you should demonstrate your competence and worth in the coming days but understand that this is not a fair game; they want you gone. | Aug 23 01:36 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | 1 day ago by Anonymous | Aug 23 01:36 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | | 5 reactions (+5/-0) | Reply | Aug 23 01:36 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Post ID: @ca+1m0hx2djm | Aug 23 01:36 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | +3 | Aug 23 01:36 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | @bs "Goals are usually defined in such a way that it is impossible to achieve them completely. The goal of IBM is termination (or firing/layoffs)." | Aug 23 01:36 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | 1 day ago by Anonymous | Aug 23 01:36 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | | 3 reactions (+3/-0) | Reply | Aug 23 01:36 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Post ID: @bw+1m0hx2djm | Aug 23 01:36 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | -5 | Aug 23 01:36 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | @b3 english... WTF is that language... | Aug 23 01:36 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | 1 day ago by Anonymous | Aug 23 01:36 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | | 7 reactions (+1/-6) | Reply | Aug 23 01:36 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Post ID: @bs+1m0hx2djm | Aug 23 01:36 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | +4 | Aug 23 01:36 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Die Ziele werden in der Regel so definiert , dass sie unmöglich vollständig erreicht werden können. Ziel von IBM ist die Kündigung. | Aug 23 01:36 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | 1 day ago by Anonymous | Aug 23 01:36 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | | 6 reactions (+5/-1) | Reply | Aug 23 01:36 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Post ID: @b3+1m0hx2djm | Aug 23 01:36 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | +8 | Aug 23 01:36 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Start applying immediately. Use this time to find a new job. I am sorry to hear. Most likely you don’t deserve it. | Aug 23 01:36 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | " | Aug 23 01:36 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1m0mdhdyy | Aug 23 01:38 |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | " | Aug 23 01:40 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | IBM AI = substituting high cost labor for low cost labor accomplished via offshoring. There is a reason IBM NA headcount and Northern Europe headcount has gone down by 100k while Indias headcount has gone up by 100k. It’s all about costs | Aug 23 01:40 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | 9 hours ago by Anonymous | Aug 23 01:40 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | | 3 reactions (+3/-0) | Reply | Aug 23 01:40 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Post ID: @b1+1m0mdhdyy | Aug 23 01:40 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | +6 | Aug 23 01:40 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | There are many hard working families in the US who cannot afford to help with college expenses for their children. The affluent families send their kids to the US to the universities while our own hard working families cannot afford college for their kids. It is sad and so messed up. | Aug 23 01:40 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | 11 hours ago by Anonymous | Aug 23 01:40 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | | 6 reactions (+6/-0) | Reply | Aug 23 01:40 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Post ID: @aq+1m0mdhdyy | Aug 23 01:40 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | +5 | Aug 23 01:40 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | We should limit students from India to attend colleges in the US. Not being racist here. Just a fact that they flood our universities and then take our US jobs away | Aug 23 01:40 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | 11 hours ago by Anonymous | Aug 23 01:40 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | | 5 reactions (+5/-0) | Reply | Aug 23 01:40 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Post ID: @an+1m0mdhdyy | Aug 23 01:40 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | +3 | Aug 23 01:40 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Let me fix this for you. No jobs have been replaced by AI. The operative word here is "replaced" as it assumes a similar level of quality. | Aug 23 01:40 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Arvind's destruction of the helpdesk was a cut to service. He provided a chat bot as a sort of consolation prize despite the fact its own metrics showed it was not solving problems -- when they bothered to collect them. They relied on a lot on useless internal metrics that in the best case measured output, but not outcome. Those jobs were not replaced, they were simply eliminated. Remember Arvind's three word motto ended with the w | Aug 23 01:40 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | ords "eliminate". That's what he's done. | Aug 23 01:40 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | In the final analysis, at IBM at least, "AI" has been nothing but cover for an unprecedented increase of outsourcing to India. There too they never show it has actually "replaced" the jobs of the original workers; they're simply occupying the same seats without regards to quality or outcome. Thanks to McKinsey that that's the IBM way. | Aug 23 01:40 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | 11 hours ago by Anonymous | Aug 23 01:40 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | | 3 reactions (+3/-0) | Reply | Aug 23 01:40 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Post ID: @ak+1m0mdhdyy | Aug 23 01:40 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | +3 | Aug 23 01:40 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | IBM = Indian Biryani McKinsey | Aug 23 01:40 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | IBM and Arvind (and Gerstner and Palmisano and Rometti) NEVER do anything without the input and blessing of McKinsey. McKinsey is telling the world INDIA IS THE WORKPLACE FOR THE WORLD IN THIS 2 MINUTE VIDEO. | Aug 23 01:40 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1m0mdhdyy | Aug 23 01:40 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Disgusting place and idea that will gut the US workforce as companies having been doing now since the 60s and 70s => The large-scale outsourcing of U.S. jobs started in the 1960s and 1970s for factory work. It grew much faster in the 1980s and 1990s, and later expanded to office and tech jobs in the late 1990s and 2000s | Aug 23 01:40 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | The big reason we won WWII and the Cold War was that the US MADE THINGS LIKE NO OTHER COUNTRY. Huge manufacturing base. Most of those great blue collar jobs that provided a great middle class life for millions are gone. Already now in the Iran war we are struggling with supplies. It is an obvious and very serious issue since it is clear tens of thousands or millions of cheap drones will be key for future wars and China especially h | Aug 23 01:40 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | as taken the long term view of how to prepare and take over the US. | Aug 23 01:40 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | "He will win who, prepared himself, waits to take the enemy unprepared." — Sun Tzu | Aug 23 01:40 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | " | Aug 23 01:40 |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1m0hx49z9 | Aug 23 01:41 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | " it’s definitely coming you can feel it in the air during work hours | Aug 23 01:41 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | 2 hours ago by Anonymous | Aug 23 01:41 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | | 2 reactions (+2/-0) | Reply | Aug 23 01:41 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Post ID: @gp+1m0hx49z9 | Aug 23 01:41 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | +3 | Aug 23 01:41 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | If past behavior holds true then late next week or early the following will tell the tale | Aug 23 01:41 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | 5 hours ago by Anonymous | Aug 23 01:41 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | | 3 reactions (+3/-0) | Reply | Aug 23 01:41 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Post ID: @g7+1m0hx49z9 | Aug 23 01:41 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | 0 | Aug 23 01:41 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | @ag I do work for IBM... for now... | Aug 23 01:41 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | 1 day ago by Anonymous | Aug 23 01:41 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | | 10 reactions (+5/-5) | Reply | Aug 23 01:41 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Post ID: @an+1m0hx49z9 | Aug 23 01:41 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | +2 | Aug 23 01:41 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | @ad you didn’t answer the question, what are you doing with this information? | Aug 23 01:41 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | I doubt, you work for IBM, you are fishing…. | Aug 23 01:41 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | 1 day ago by Anonymous | Aug 23 01:41 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | | 8 reactions (+5/-3) | Reply | Aug 23 01:41 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Post ID: @ag+1m0hx49z9 | Aug 23 01:41 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | +5 | Aug 23 01:41 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | @a7 no we are in dark just as much as you are. We have a slight idea of what’s going on but we don’t formally find out until a day or two before the actual event | Aug 23 01:41 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | " | Aug 23 01:41 |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1m0mxpee6 | Aug 23 01:44 |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | " | Aug 23 01:44 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | IBM could not count to 5 if you spotted them 1 2 3 4. | Aug 23 01:44 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | More Corporate Blues | Aug 23 01:44 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | The server crashed at half-past three, | Aug 23 01:44 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | It took down sales and HR tree. | Aug 23 01:44 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | I raised a ticket, marked "Extreme, | Aug 23 01:44 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | "Which vanished into vapor-stream. | Aug 23 01:44 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | A manager from Bangalore | Aug 23 01:44 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Assigned a guy from Singapore, | Aug 23 01:44 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Who routed it to Austin, Texas, | Aug 23 01:44 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | To sit inside a workflow nexus. | Aug 23 01:44 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | We had a Scrum to find the root, | Aug 23 01:44 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | But spent an hour on the mute. | Aug 23 01:44 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | "Can you see my screen?" someone cried, | Aug 23 01:44 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | As hope and Watson gently died. | Aug 23 01:44 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | The legacy code is twenty-four, | Aug 23 01:44 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Built on a mainframe on the floor. | Aug 23 01:44 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Nobody knows what language rules, | Aug 23 01:44 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | But we sell AI-powered tools. | Aug 23 01:44 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | So fill your mug and check your Slack, | Aug 23 01:44 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | There is no road to turning back. | Aug 23 01:44 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | We'll update spreadsheets till we pass, | Aug 23 01:44 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Reflecting through the looking glass. | Aug 23 01:44 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | 21 minutes ago by Anonymous | Aug 23 01:44 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | | 1 reaction (+1/-0) | Reply | Aug 23 01:44 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Post ID: @bw+1m0mxpee6 | Aug 23 01:44 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | @ad uhhhhh this doesn’t sound very good for the rest of us | Aug 23 01:44 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | 5 hours ago by Anonymous | Aug 23 01:44 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | | no reactions | Reply | Aug 23 01:44 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Post ID: @aw+1m0mxpee6 | Aug 23 01:44 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | If the separation documents have been updated with the new dates, it should give an idea of when the next round of layoffs are hitting. | Aug 23 01:44 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | 8 hours ago by Anonymous | Aug 23 01:44 |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | Post ID: @ad+1m0mxpee6 | Aug 23 01:44 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | @OP @a8 correct a glitch. | Aug 23 01:44 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Not a scam just a deployment mishap. They’re staging the system for the next release cycle and apparently pushed out the beta draft versions from the previous round and recipients by mistake. | Aug 23 01:44 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | 9 hours ago by Anonymous | Aug 23 01:44 |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | Post ID: @a9+1m0mxpee6 | Aug 23 01:44 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | It is most likely a glitch | Aug 23 01:44 |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1m0mdhdyy | Aug 23 15:20 |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | " it’s mostly masters and PhD programs that have a ton of students from India and china | Aug 23 15:20 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | 1 hour ago by Anonymous | Aug 23 15:20 |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | +1 | Aug 23 15:20 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Even AI knows we are fd | Aug 23 15:20 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | 2 hours ago by Anonymous | Aug 23 15:20 |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | Post ID: @f0+1m0mdhdyy | Aug 23 15:20 |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | IBM AI = substituting high cost labor for low cost labor accomplished via offshoring. There is a reason IBM NA headcount and Northern Europe headcount has gone down by 100k while Indias headcount has gone up by 100k. It’s all about costs | Aug 23 15:20 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | " | Aug 23 15:20 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1m0mxpee6 | Aug 23 15:23 |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | "it wasn’t a hack but a mistake as they are preparing for the next round of RAs. | Aug 23 15:23 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | 2 hours ago by Anonymous | Aug 23 15:23 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | | no reactions | Reply | Aug 23 15:23 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Post ID: @e3+1m0mxpee6 | Aug 23 15:23 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | +1 | Aug 23 15:23 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | The comments in that thread suggest it's a hack attempt, that they're demo docusign document links, not real ones. | Aug 23 15:23 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | If so, it means IBM had a data breach of the people who were let go last time. | Aug 23 15:23 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Not that I'd expect them to ever announce this or do anything about it. You don't get izzat for doing the right thing, you get izzat for looking like you're doing the right thing. Chaalaki, woo. | Aug 23 15:23 |
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