IBM Does Not Care About Families, Communities, and Even Its Own Workers
Someone has just reposted this comment about IBM's commitment to its staff. This also applied to Red Hat following the deep-throated bluewashing. To quote:
Show your next employer no more loyalty than they show youThe days of mutual respect and loyalty between management and staff at IBM are long past. IBM’s one-time core principle of trust and personal responsibility in all relationships no longer applies to its executive ranks (nor do the IBM Business Conduct Guidelines.) Don’t overly invest in your career because it’s guaranteed that your employer at most makes extremely short-term investments in you.
Know that your 1st or 2nd line manager may have been coerced to sign a justification for laying you off written by higher ups and certify it as their own assessment. The documented decision making process and paper trail scrupulously follow the law. The actual decision process is a different matter. IBM’s no longer squeaky clean in this century; it just presents the outward appearance of being so.
In IBM even band 10 and band D employees are disposable interchangeable parts now. The situation has become similar at other major tech employers. Show your next employer no more loyalty than they show you. Beware of loyalty to your local team. Big businesses get a free piggyback ride from that loyalty to your local team. They count on it!
Even if you’re the best in your country or geo, they can always find 2 or 3 lesser talents in a far cheaper developing country to replace you. They won’t think twice before doing so … even to someone who walks on water.
Companies aren't families and bosses aren't parents. Even if some colleagues/peers act like friends, they're not siblings and there's no kinship unless it's some small family-owned business.
When I see Red Hat staff wearing a Red Hat-type red fedora I always think those people managed to delude themselves into this idea that IBM Red Hat is a "community"; it's not. We've already seen some Red Hat staff openly complaining - even in public, in spite of obvious risk - about being forced to no longer compile key packages for Fedora. IBM just doesn't care; it just wants money, more and more of it. It'll crush Fedora like it crushed CentOS as long as it doesn't stand to get any more free marketing/labour (slavery) out of it.
Red Hat is just some IBM brand, it's not a company anymore. Red Hat isn't a family and to believe that it is would be the makeup of cults. █
