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[01:31]	schestowitz[TR2]	https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kze4zqty
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[01:31]	schestowitz[TR2]	"
[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.
[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 teams demise. Wah.
[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 systemperformance problem become promotion opportunity! Team left behind like after typhoon, picking up pieces, while she flying upstairs to collect another big title.
[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.
[01:36]	schestowitz[TR2]	https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1m0hx2djm
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[01:36]	schestowitz[TR2]	"
[01:36]	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
[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.
[01:36]	schestowitz[TR2]	1 day ago by Anonymous
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[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)."
[01:36]	schestowitz[TR2]	1 day ago by Anonymous
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[01:36]	schestowitz[TR2]	@b3 english... WTF is that language...
[01:36]	schestowitz[TR2]	1 day ago by Anonymous
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[01:36]	schestowitz[TR2]	Die Ziele werden in der Regel so definiert , dass sie unmglich vollstndig erreicht werden knnen. Ziel von IBM ist die Kndigung.
[01:36]	schestowitz[TR2]	1 day ago by Anonymous
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[01:36]	schestowitz[TR2]	Start applying immediately. Use this time to find a new job. I am sorry to hear. Most likely you dont deserve it.
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[01:38]	schestowitz[TR2]	https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1m0mdhdyy
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[01:40]	schestowitz[TR2]	"
[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. Its all about costs
[01:40]	schestowitz[TR2]	9 hours ago by Anonymous
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[01:40]	schestowitz[TR2]	 +6 
[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.
[01:40]	schestowitz[TR2]	11 hours ago by Anonymous
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[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
[01:40]	schestowitz[TR2]	11 hours ago by Anonymous
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[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.
[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
[01:40]	schestowitz[TR2]	ords "eliminate". That's what he's done.
[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.
[01:40]	schestowitz[TR2]	11 hours ago by Anonymous
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[01:40]	schestowitz[TR2]	IBM = Indian Biryani McKinsey
[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.
[01:40]	schestowitz[TR2]	https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1m0mdhdyy
[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
[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
[01:40]	schestowitz[TR2]	as taken the long term view of how to prepare and take over the US.
[01:40]	schestowitz[TR2]	"He will win who, prepared himself, waits to take the enemy unprepared." Sun Tzu
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[01:41]	schestowitz[TR2]	https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1m0hx49z9
[01:41]	schestowitz[TR2]	" its definitely coming you can feel it in the air during work hours
[01:41]	schestowitz[TR2]	2 hours ago by Anonymous
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[01:41]	schestowitz[TR2]	If past behavior holds true then late next week or early the following will tell the tale
[01:41]	schestowitz[TR2]	5 hours ago by Anonymous
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[01:41]	schestowitz[TR2]	@ag I do work for IBM... for now...
[01:41]	schestowitz[TR2]	1 day ago by Anonymous
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[01:41]	schestowitz[TR2]	@ad you didnt answer the question, what are you doing with this information?
[01:41]	schestowitz[TR2]	I doubt, you work for IBM, you are fishing.
[01:41]	schestowitz[TR2]	1 day ago by Anonymous
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[01:41]	schestowitz[TR2]	@a7 no we are in dark just as much as you are. We have a slight idea of whats going on but we dont formally find out until a day or two before the actual event
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[01:44]	schestowitz[TR2]	https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1m0mxpee6
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[01:44]	schestowitz[TR2]	"
[01:44]	schestowitz[TR2]	IBM could not count to 5 if you spotted them 1 2 3 4.
[01:44]	schestowitz[TR2]	More Corporate Blues
[01:44]	schestowitz[TR2]	The server crashed at half-past three,
[01:44]	schestowitz[TR2]	It took down sales and HR tree.
[01:44]	schestowitz[TR2]	I raised a ticket, marked "Extreme,
[01:44]	schestowitz[TR2]	"Which vanished into vapor-stream.
[01:44]	schestowitz[TR2]	A manager from Bangalore
[01:44]	schestowitz[TR2]	Assigned a guy from Singapore,
[01:44]	schestowitz[TR2]	Who routed it to Austin, Texas,
[01:44]	schestowitz[TR2]	To sit inside a workflow nexus.
[01:44]	schestowitz[TR2]	We had a Scrum to find the root,
[01:44]	schestowitz[TR2]	But spent an hour on the mute.
[01:44]	schestowitz[TR2]	"Can you see my screen?" someone cried,
[01:44]	schestowitz[TR2]	As hope and Watson gently died.
[01:44]	schestowitz[TR2]	The legacy code is twenty-four,
[01:44]	schestowitz[TR2]	Built on a mainframe on the floor.
[01:44]	schestowitz[TR2]	Nobody knows what language rules,
[01:44]	schestowitz[TR2]	But we sell AI-powered tools.
[01:44]	schestowitz[TR2]	So fill your mug and check your Slack,
[01:44]	schestowitz[TR2]	There is no road to turning back.
[01:44]	schestowitz[TR2]	We'll update spreadsheets till we pass,
[01:44]	schestowitz[TR2]	Reflecting through the looking glass.
[01:44]	schestowitz[TR2]	21 minutes ago by Anonymous
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[01:44]	schestowitz[TR2]	@ad uhhhhh this doesnt sound very good for the rest of us
[01:44]	schestowitz[TR2]	5 hours ago by Anonymous
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[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.
[01:44]	schestowitz[TR2]	8 hours ago by Anonymous
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[01:44]	schestowitz[TR2]	@OP @a8 correct a glitch.
[01:44]	schestowitz[TR2]	Not a scam just a deployment mishap. Theyre staging the system for the next release cycle and apparently pushed out the beta draft versions from the previous round and recipients by mistake.
[01:44]	schestowitz[TR2]	9 hours ago by Anonymous
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[01:44]	schestowitz[TR2]	It is most likely a glitch
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[15:20]	schestowitz[TR2]	https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1m0mdhdyy
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[15:20]	schestowitz[TR2]	" its mostly masters and PhD programs that have a ton of students from India and china
[15:20]	schestowitz[TR2]	1 hour ago by Anonymous
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[15:20]	schestowitz[TR2]	Even AI knows we are fd
[15:20]	schestowitz[TR2]	2 hours ago by Anonymous
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[15:20]	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. Its all about costs
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[15:23]	schestowitz[TR2]	https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1m0mxpee6
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[15:23]	schestowitz[TR2]	"it wasnt a hack but a mistake as they are preparing for the next round of RAs.
[15:23]	schestowitz[TR2]	2 hours ago by Anonymous
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[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.
[15:23]	schestowitz[TR2]	If so, it means IBM had a data breach of the people who were let go last time.
[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.
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