Corporate Media Did Not Report on Mass Layoffs at IBM's Expert Labs
Over 2 days have passed; where are you, Bill Bezos?
We've been spotting some interesting trends regarding IBM layoffs since the mass layoffs of this past Thursday - layoffs we foresaw because of seemingly credible elements in the grapevine or rumour mill.
Not a single media outlet even mentioned those mass layoffs! Way to go, free press! There's a whole lot of LLM slop, so even if some news sites covered the layoffs, the original work would be lost in the cloud of chaff.
"Evil tongues" take note of methods other than relocation or PIPs (or RTO for that matter) when you want to sack a ton of people without calling it "layoffs". From the past 3 hours:
A lot more gets discussed in other threads [1, 2]. From one of those threads:
Will The Register successfully register some details and report on Monday? Or maybe after Bank Holiday? We shall see... the US has its own holiday that day (Memorial Day) and Richard Stallman gives a talk that day. Who at IBM chose that particular date for the layoffs and why? █