#concern

Had such a hard time working Friday thinking about what will happen. It's Saturday and the only thing I can think of is what's going to happen on Monday. Anyone else feeling anxious?

Why no mass layoffs yet ?

Just a thought… but Dan made a specific comment about 88% of the company is “using” AI, and we should encourage the other 12% blah blah…..

Anyone else thinking that metric will be used against us for the next round of layoffs? Checking to see how much we use AI?

My team and I have covered security for years
I understand from Monday we now cover evertything
0 training
0 understanding
I hear it is the same for collaboration too
Wtf is going on

A lot of struggle these days in the IBM Expert Labs organization. Work is less and less every year, it does not seem like they will survive another year.

Comments?

On scale of 1-10, how bad did Enrique fumble the Stripe deal? And how bad will our stock crash on Tuesday? Im wondering if I should just cash my vested RSU’s now before even bigger losses come.

I see that one of our key AI leaders/strategists Prag is jumping ship to another bank.
Several other key tech leaders have left this last year and usually aren't been replaced by external talent.

Is all this a bad sign?

ORCL investors can't unload this POS fast enough, it closed for the week - barely above the 52 week low!!

Klaxon sirons should be going off for all investors and employees at this point. One thing is certain, however. The August layoff will be a bl**dbath!

Anyone else notice it’s no longer ever mentioned?

every single manager has been laid off or fired overnight?

idk which regular employees got canned. anyone have any actual info on what’s happening?

What happened at Polaris? Was it an employee attacking another employee or did some rando walk in off the street?

Anyone else psyched to be at the front lines of angry students and parents when rush hits? It’s so unbelievably stupid to allow orders for items we do not have and not tell the students we have to source these items somehow and it will take weeks. Oh and we can’t cancel items. And can’t cancel orders. But customer service is so so important!!!

Did you see stock post earnings? Where is this going?

Heard few people got emails at 9.00 and few will be getting at 11.00 ?
Anyone heard the same ?

What the He-l is going on at Arbroath? Management claim everything is dandy but machinist’s standing around with no work, zero material In the yard, it’s looking bleak. It certainly can’t continue or be covered over for much longer.

The unrest is Real.

We all know what IBM managers are planning with some people not needes anymore in projects... PIPs and layoffs.

There's no such thing as job security here anymore. Just the illusion of it until the next email.

I asked my director about project priorities and he said he'd check with his boss. Three days later, still no answer. It's managers all the way down, and nobody at the top knows anything either.

Every day it's the same slop. "We have to use AI in everything we do". Write code? Get AI to do it! Review the code? AI! Write an email or post a message in Teams? Better use AI for it (the ems and the emoji use always give it away; "it's not just x - it's y")! Every post, every message, AI slop images, AI slop text, literally inescapable. I feel like the cult mentality around it is just eating away at people's brains, it's a twilight zone episode. I get we have to copy what every software company does, but isn't there someone near the top seeing the massive bubble about to burst, the cost of token consumption, and the general brain drain that comes from offloading every single task to an agent or a chat bot?

Is there any ongoing reorg in upstream?

https://oilprice.com/Energy/Crude-Oil/Oil-and-Gas-Employment-Hits-a-2026-Low-Even-as-Production-Sets-Records.html
When did they announce these 9000 layoffs? Where are they? Nothing is mentioned in the meetings they have.
Good luck to those affected.

Anyone know what that seems to imply? Europe cannot account for 45%??

JJ Watt questioned Pat McAfee's reported $100 million salary during an appearance on McAfee's show. Watt asked if the large payout meant others were being fired to fund it. This occurred as ESPN announced significant layoffs, impacting several well-known personalities. McAfee acknowledged the narrative but defended his team's work. The comments Watt made were reportedly removed from the show's YouTube upload.

https://people.com/jj-watt-calls-out-pat-mcafee-over-100m-contract-amid-espn-layoffs-12024499

We have so many rumors and so few details. It'd be great if we started getting proper information instead of just little scraps.

If you're smart, you're job hunting. If you're not, well, you're going to be caught off guard when things get worse. And they'll get much, much worse.

How do they get away with this again and again? Too many people over 40 were cut once again and very few under that age. How's that okay? Not only that, how's that even legal?

Does anybody else have the popcorn ready for the moment Dell realizes they've laid off way too much of institutional knowledge and things are not working as they're supposed to anymore and there's nothing they can do about it? I'm personally fully seated for that moment.

I am hearing all kinds of rumors about RMO layoffs but no official announcement. People are offline and meetings cancelled last minute. Anyone know what is going on?

No rhyme or reason for the chosen: some long term tenured, some newer, but good at their jobs. That department was being hammered by senior leadership about meeting SLAs. They will regret it later when the staffing is needed later in the year. Why, Lord, oh why?

Hearing some rumors

Matt Carr had an all hands yesterday. He said we need to move on from the laid off employees, was laughing the entire time and came off as an arrogant fat man. Not to mention, was complimenting women for looking good, super weird. There was a tornado warning alarm that went off and he dismissed it and kept the call going. He’s not fit for that job. What makes him a psychopath more than anything is that he promised no more lay offs but we all know that lay offs will continue. These “leaders” are clueless.

Are there more lay offs coming tomorrow!

What an absolute disgrace of a migration, whoever signed off on big bang approach should be sacked. I feel for the support team