IBM Research Shutting Down Labs, Lots of Workers Laid Off (Even Days Before Christmas in Devout Catholic Country)
Heartless, soulless company
Another day, another deluge of laid off workers. These are from recent hours alone:
We've been seeing many posts like this about (or from) Brazil lately; many people there are now unemployed. Notice people are announcing IBM "last day" at a very rapid pace and IBM polices their speech about the subject.
It has gotten so ridiculous that many repeat the same 'script' and say they are "grateful" (to get sacked, to be unemployed).
The shutdown in Brazil probably won't be the last in a while, as we read the same about Japan and some US labs, as noted here earlier this week.
Earlier this month: "IBM Research" in Albany, New York "on the Chopping Block"
Yes, Albany. Someone posted about the Albany situation some hours ago, suggesting a clique has made a mess of the workplace:
And then you’ve got their toadies, the ones who get all the special treatment they sure haven’t earned. I work out at the Albany research site, and everybody here knows there’s a tight little inner-circle club runnin’ the place. Those folks always seem to land on their feet—survive, benefit, and prosper—no matter what, while more deserving people get left in the dust, and for no logical reason I’ve ever seen.Just in the last year alone, we all watched some downright egregious moves made for a select few, along with plenty of cover-ups and hush-ups around some pretty scandalous behavior, all to protect that inner circle. Anywhere else, that kind of thing would get looked into and investigated. But in Albany, it just gets swept under the rug, and the same people end up getting shuffled around and bumped up like nothin’ ever happened
At IBM, the top-level management is also a clique, so failure is greeted with rewards and bad leadership gets promoted. █