LaFleche comes to the new role after spending the last three-plus years as IBM’s managing director for the State of New York. Wasn't there a debacle and mishandling by IBM last year with their State of NY Dept of Labor Help Desk contract? Oh... — read more 

I understand if we do not follow the Content Rule then the Privacy Policy applies. But I am wondering if the organization can find out who posted what here. I am in the process of my exit via layoff, and was reading the Separation docs and basically... — read more 

For employees who purchased a phone at a discount, tied to a call/data plan with a provider: normally after a period of 2 years, the contract with the carrier is fulfilled and the device is yours. But what if you are let go or leave earlier? Does the... — read more 

The other day @1ief+19h9ytUd posted this link: https://regmedia.co.uk/2019/07/31/ibm.pdf Which is from a lawsuit in Texas. I read through the entire thing as it shows how we’re chosen for layoff. I urge you to read it too. It seems the case is... — read more 

The proof is in the numbers..70% of IBMers believe layoffs are coming. Don't try to hide the facts or discredit the article. https://insights.dice.com/2021/02/03/technologists-fear-layoffs-coming-at-some-of-techs-biggest-companies/

Good evening. If I apply for an internal IBM post and if I don’t hear back by Monday, 2/15, how does IBM handle those situations. I know you probably say leave and don’t look back, I have some tough financial situation that is going to be very... — read more 

Nearly two years after its mega-buy of Raleigh-based Red Hat, the new IBM has yet to fully materialize - _and analysts are getting fed up._ A colossal understatement if there ever was one. In the meantime, Red Hat proper is carrying on... — read more 

Owner & Founder of NET Steven Zolman take on IBM's role. https://www.netnetweb.com/content/blog/ibms-diminishing-role-in-the-modern-enterprise

IBM ‘s overall score rose 14.9 points from 2019 to 2020. The company is third in the 2020 overall ranking with a score of 95.7. Microsoft Corp. is the highest-ranked company overall, with a score of 103. *IBM’s biggest improvement came in... — read more 

https://seekingalpha.com/news/3660183-instacart-ibm-sign-mutual-patent-agreement

Another RH exec. cashes out. I'd interpret it as a resounding vote of "no confidence" and seems they know something us worker bees... — read more 

With minimum pay in tech how do you guys motivate yourself to wake up and goto work at ibm? My salary hasn't changed in 2 years, not even adjusted for inflation and they took away whatever tiny gdp bonus they gave. I have stopped watching AKs... — read more 

Without providing a time frame, Thomas said he expects the partnership to help boost IBM’s customers using AI to 80% from its current 20%. So a targeted 4x increase of AI customers in an unspecified amount of time? Sounds like precedent is... — read more 

https://siliconangle.com/2021/02/07/big-4-cloud-providers-revenue-poised-surpass-115b-year/ Let's see what they have to say about IBM: ‘Oracle and IBM have clouds too’ We hear this frequently and so we’ve put Oracle Corp. and IBM Corp. on... — read more 

This is IBM’s go to market strategy outside of the Fortune 500 GBS employees take notice https://seekingalpha.com/news/3659396-palantir-stock-gains-on-joint-ai-application-product-with-ibm

Does anybody has any information on the situation in Slovakia? Any IBMer from Slovakia? They announced the layoffs last year. Are they happening now?

Scrolling through linkedin and so many experience employees leaving feb 5th. Did something happened why is there such a large heard of people leaving at once?

Your pal Deep Throat here. I have waited until MSFT (Azure), AMZN (AWS) and GOOG (Google Cloud) reported their Q4 2020 and full year 2020 results to add my commentary. Before I do so, a quick recap on what I have said in other letters/memos: 1)... — read more 

This may be helpful to some RAed to read. A New Jersey age discrimination case filed in the state court by https://www.cahnparralaw.com/ latest action is a motion to depose the CEO. The filings are available... — read more 

Has anyone who has been RA'ed in previous rounds taken advantage of this? Is the reimbursement process a pain? It seems very easy, but IBM makes nothing easy.

Pay attention to all the messaging here. https://fortune.com/2021/02/02/ibm-salaries-jobs-training-new-collar-covid-economy/

What's going on with promotions? It was always hard to get ahead at this place but now it seems literally impossible. And it's not even that I'm being skipped over for somebody else, people are simply not being promoted at all. Has there been a... — read more 

and the competition is tough: https://www.theregister.com/2021/02/03/google_q4_2020/

Peluso's replacement. Surely her forte of "repositioning" will include RA'ing. https://www.adweek.com/brand-marketing/ibm-carla-pineyro-sublett-cmo/

Cloud War's February 2021 Cloud top 10 ranking has been updated... https://cloudwars.co/cloud-wars-top-10-vendors-world/ Microsoft Amazon Google Cloud Salesforce SAP Oracle ServiceNow Workday IBM Adobe — read more 

Hello, Ex-employee here. Just wondering if IBM decided to move the asset management division (more specifically, the software license managament unit) to that NewCo company or if anything major happened? Just curious to see what happened after I... — read more 

AWS: In billions Q4 2019 $9,954 Q4 2020 $12,742 All of: 2019 $35,026 All of: 2020 $45,370 Google Cloud: In billions Q4 2019 $2,614 Q4 2020 $3,831 All of: 2019 $8,918 All of: 2020 $13,059 So much for a COVID slow... — read more 

I saw that someone here complained that they were forced to train their replacements. That made me curious, did anyone else have such an experience? Nothing surprises me anymore but I don’t understand how someone could have been forced to do that?... — read more 

They are trying to only pay me out for 2 vacation days even though I have 15. Is this happening to anyone else? Anyone have suggestions to get all 15 paid out? I'm US systems

IBM Blockchain Is a Shell of Its Former Self After Revenue Misses, Job Cuts: Sources “There is not really going to be a blockchain team any longer,” said a source. https://www.coindesk.com/ibm-blockchain-revenue-misses-job-cuts-sources

The voluntary package would have to be significantly better (several X) than the layoff package - otherwise people will just linger and not do much work, and wait for the next layoff, and the next, and the next. The other issue with the voluntary... — read more 

“Gartner is a fascinating organisation, it’s paid-for advertising, by all the companies that play into it”, Boville muses pointedly. “And within their Magic Quadrant, if you go to category king, they take the category king — which is AWS —... — read more 

Has anyone heard if IBM Canada will offer Transition / Pathway to Retirement in 2021? It was offered in 2018, and 2019. For staff >10 years service, at least age 55 or 30 years of service. Depending on Band you got a work 4 days a week, got 100% pay... — read more 

https://www.righto.com/2021/01/ibm-paperweight-teardown-reverse.html

Starting a new thread for IBMers to share how safe they feel this year from the massive upcoming layoff... Do you think you will be laid off this year? Are you planning to leave IBM on your own this year? Would you recommend IBM to anyone? — read more 

I'm part of the global markets RA, last date 2/15/21. Recently received a Statement of Understanding that references a non-compete agreement. Is this seriously how IBM does it's employees? Any experience with this? Here is the text. "I... — read more 

Will the BoD answer the call? Let's say, "No." https://247wallst.com/technology-3/2021/01/29/desperate-ibm-investors-should-look-to-director-michael-eskew/

Are there any RA going on this Thursday?

https://cloudwars.co/ibm/ibm-shocker-q4-cloud-growth-plummets-to-8/