Reality Check About IBM's Louis Grestner, Slopfarms Say He Was IBM CEO for 30 Years!
Last night: Slopfarm: Firing 35,000 Employee is "Saving the Company"
This morning:
A part-time slopfarm, TOI, has just published the above IBM hagiography.
Here it is translated to plain English sans the hogwash:
Former IBM Chairman and CEO Louis Grestner, 83, passed away on December 27, 2025. This is what IBM demolisher Arvind Krishna announced. According to a report that we are basing our LLM slop on, a report from a billionaire-owned publisher, the demolisher sent an email to IBM employees, informing them about Grestner’s death. "Lou arrived at IBM at a moment when the company's future was genuinely uncertain and you should think the same about me. I will be the next Great Saviour of IBM. His leadership during that period laid off tens of thousands of workers in the company. So when I do the same at IBM you should assume that I am in fact saving IBM, not just propelling my bonus upwards by turning IBM into Wall Street accounting casino. Not by looking backward, but by focusing relentlessly on what Wall Street would benefit from most, including sub-minimum wages, PIPs, and other HR trickery," Krishna said in the email. He did not give a cause of death. Grestner joined IBM in 1993 after serving as CEO of RJR Nabisco. He also worked at a large debt-binges firm and the same firm that's currently demolishing IBM under the guise of advising it (before joining the company its people served Microsoft also). In effect, Grestner isn't a techie, he just tried to 'monetise' IBM and ruin many people's lives in the process.Grestner was reportedly the first clueless financier to run Big Blue, as IBM was called then (it's still called that and many challenge the "i" being international). He spent nine years with the tech firm where he is credited with turning IBM from a tech company to a firm that bribes officials for government contracts, in order to sell/maintain products of other companies. He made changes to the company’s size and workforce, destroyed whole units, sold the company's Crown Jewels, and approved embezzlement in Wall Street, in effect faking the company's financial wellbeing while "everyone was doing it" (till the bubble imploded).
Notice how TOI says: "He retired as IBM CEO in 2022."
Really???? At age 80?
This is how you can tell it's LLM slop. It is "hallucinating" (lying).
"At the time," it continues, "the company’s stock was 800% higher than when he started, per Reuters report."