IBM Mass Layoffs This Week Not Limited to North America, Red Hat Staff Terminated
Some of many who spoke about their termination out in the open (hours ago in Microsoft's LinkedIn):
That first one is Red Hat: (where the layoffs also happened this past week)
North Americans dominate the discussion about this week's IBM layoffs. I've personally gone through and carefully studied about 400 comments already (media coverage is too shallow, it's mostly one site parroting another site, sometimes LLM slop). While most people self-identify as USian or Canadian, where many staff members are culled this week, there are also mentions of people in Europe and elsewhere. Some "leave" and some are removed (quotes around the word "leave" because it's mostly involuntary [1, 2]). Less than an hour ago somebody wrote:
[IBM CEO] Arvind is definitely outsourcing IBM away from US at the next level. I've spent 75% of the last 2.5 yrs being asked to develop and train very junior resources in other countries on how to do Sr level work within our application on what I value as critical data skills, while covering for the fact that our application requires senior level resources and having to work so many different roles simultaneously.Its a big company forced to use vampirical acquisitions and knee-jerk reactions to buzzy trends to survive financially and stay hip in the media. IBM is too big... and they absolutely don't have the insight to develop and foster its internals which creates the need for the frequent blood sucking acquisitions of other companies just to buy product or market share and to offset the loss of their own.
Anyhow I was RA'd as well and honestly i was hoping for it over the last year as the best of our team i worked with for years has been gone for some time and conferencing in on these ra-ra-ibm corporate meetings is cringing because they act like what they do has no consequences or impact on people while they are making dream money on the backs of others.
Others said that IBM gave them a "new lease of life" or temporary relocation only to train low-cost replacements, then be let go. Do not relocate for a company that sees you as nothing but a number or a "human resource"; there's a lot more to life than a salary. █