$34B well spent! https://www.barrons.com/articles/ibm-stock-downgrade-neutral-legacy-businesses-red-hat-51571668644 IBM stock was falling Monday morning after an analyst at UBS said he sees less upside for the stock. The back story. IBM... — read more 

We'll continue to try to shrink to profitability. Something that nobody pulled off before.

Can you say IBM? https://dilbert.com/strip/2019-10-13

IBM board members are you honestly paying attention? Even Wall Street isn’t buying what Ginni is selling https://seekingalpha.com/news/3507283-ibm-minus-1_8-percent-ubs-hits-sidelines

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/10/17/ibm_q3_2019_financials/ Fantastic quarter: Sales, down. Profit, down. Business as usual

Last 2 paragraphs Others bankrolling Lee’s S. 386 are the outsourcing lobby, like Cognizant and the IBM Corporation. Cognizant and IBM have a total of seven lobbyists pushing the legislation. IBM and Cognizant are set to gain hugely from S. 386, as... — read more 

_He said the company’s outsourcing business—“Global Technology Services”—missed internal expectations for the quarter due to lower client business volumes in the United Kingdom and Germany._ So we know the unit that will be targeted for the majority... — read more 

As goes revenue, so goes headcount: (3.9%) YTY so we should expect the commensurate amount of headcount reduction, but undoubtedly Ginni will just make it a nice round 5% as the math is easier for the bean counters to... — read more 

The Fast Money traders discuss IBM's decline in revenue. It's the fifth miss in a row, and it speaks to the broader story for IBM. https://apple.news/AFtPME0cAQi-JgI63sHCdMg

Insurance, Health & Wellness Health Insurance Dental Insurance Flexible Spending Account FSA Vision Insurance Health Savings Account HAS Life Insurance Supplemental Life Insurance Disability Insurance Occupational... — read more 

IBM must produce documents said to show company scheme to lay off older workers By Marjorie Johnson, J.D. The company argued that discovery should be limited to the RIF group that included the employee, but he claimed that the RIF group was a... — read more 

Another one dives overboard. https://www.newsobserver.com/news/business/article236001743.html

This is per Business Insider, coverage of "World’s Most Attractive Employers 2019" (WMAE 2019) Source Study: https://universumglobal.com/wmae-2019/ PDF File: https://storage.pardot.com/13732/214935/WMAE_2019_ebook.pdf Universum, a research... — read more 

Abandon ship! https://www.crn.com/news/red-hat-kubernetes-kingpin-grant-shipley-jumps-ship-to-vmware

If IBM bombs again with its earnings even after acquiring Red Hat, that should be a clear sign to the Board that Ginni needs to be kicked to the curb as CEO, President and Chairman! She's too stingy to give the former CEO from Red Hat, Jim... — read more 

IBM at #5? Seriously!?!? Big Bleu's P.R. machine must be working overtime to spread utopian stories of life at IBM to these naive Gen Z and Millenials... — read more 

What about IBM using A.I. to find jobs for older, current employees as opposed to RA'g them? https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/03/why-ibm-is-using-ai-to-find-jobs-for-people-without-college-degree.html

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Queen Ginni beknighted some "New Collar" data scientists! Guess a B.S./M.S./doctorate degree is clearly no longer needed to have "scientist" in your job... — read more 

Notable for the person in the "Who" column that they chose to represent someone ranked at a "7". https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-09-30/everyone-has-a-wealth-number-what-s-yours

[Raising from a comment: @VZzqzzM-56thy on a post that was posted almost a year ago]. I have it on very good authority that the Digital Business Group (DBG) is only getting started with their co-location plans. Security was the first. If you... — read more 

Don't listen to them... Just find what you’re good at and work hard at it...

Quits: Employees who left voluntarily. Exception: retirements or transfers to other locations are reported with Other Separations. Layoffs & Discharges: Involuntary separations initiated by the employer, including: Layoffs with no intent to... — read more 

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/ss-c-acquire-algorithmics-assets-200500267.html

Who else agrees with me? We can save money and maybe not have to lose some of our best engineers while literally losing nothing useful in the process (honestly, what's the last good campaign they came up with?). Any way you look at it, this would be... — read more 

IBM was ordered late on Friday to produce communications from CEO Ginni Rometty and other executives related to Operation Baccarat, the IT giant's alleged company-wide-plan to replace older workers with younger... — read more 

This can't happen quickly enough. https://www.forbes.com/sites/steveandriole/2019/09/23/amazon-should-buy-ibm-and-end-the-ai-democratization-strategy/#1d622931f545

More negative IBM news. https://www.coloradohometownweekly.com/2019/09/16/golden-company-sues-ibm-for-dumping-toxic-waste-decades-ago-in-erie/

Patent trolling is IBM's true moonshot. . . https://www.inman.com/2019/09/18/ibm-sues-zillow-over-multiple-charges-of-patent-infringement/

There's certainly some "CEO-speak" in his comments, but still just in these brief comments, it surely sounds like he would be leaps and bounds better than... — read more 

The caption across the bottom @4:27: "Rometty: Age is irrelevant when learning new skills." Oh Ginni, you still think you're fooling us? https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2019-09-20/how-ibm-is-investing-in-human-capital-video Ginni... — read more 

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Or is that still a secret?

Things are not as bad as some folks want you to believe. We haven't had a large RA in years. Just saying... I am not trying to minimize trouble that RA'd folks have to go through nowadays - I am merely saying that we are having less RAs if compared... — read more 

Here is the summary: There are layoffs at IBM: every.single.year There will be layoffs here: every.single.year Executives prefer layoffs to growth, hence no change will happen ever The company is sliding into oblivion, there is nothing... — read more 

XR could replace all the other screens in your life, like that big TV in your living room. Mobile XR has the potential to become one of the world’s most ubiquitous and disruptive computing platforms—similar to the smartphone... — read more 

And chances are they’re more productive and more engaged than they would be if they were in the office. They may even be planning to stay in their job longer because of their flexible work location. In 2017, Stanford economics professor Nicholas... — read more 

IBM continues to push its quantum computing efforts forward and today announced that it will soon make a 53-qubit quantum computer available to clients of its IBM Q Network. The new system, which is scheduled to go online in the middle of next... — read more 

Ginni Rometty, International Business Machines Corp. chair, president and chief executive officer, discusses the importance of diversity and inclusion in the workplace. Diversity and inclusion, excluding anyone over 40 though. Watch the... — read more