For all of those IBMERS who got RA please join the Slack Workspace Ibmfriends2020. It is an amazing workspace where we help each other, give each other support exchange job postings etc. Highly recommended. Good luck.

It's official – https://www.kcrg.com/2020/07/01/ibm-leaving-dubuque-moving-jobs-to-columbia-missouri/

Any news about IBM Strategy? They are an expensive, elite group from McKinsey, Accenture, Booz etc strategy companies. Their consultants are big-ego rejects from those companies. Were they impacted in the cuts?

IBM is now fully embarked on a desperate mission to cost cut itself to success. Since it cannot grow revenue due to too many declining legacy businesses, the COVID-19 economic crisis, and difficulties competing in the emerging cloud business, IBM... — read more 

just got word a new round of RAs being reported today. looks like the notice is right on time for next quarter

He was motivated, he said, by “deep unhappiness working for the company.” https://westfaironline.com/126041/ibm-sues-to-stop-executive-from-working-for-microsoft/

This is a question for true oldtimers. I know a couple of people who retired from IBM about a decade ago and they don't believe me when I tell them how toxic this place is nowadays and how awful the work environment is. Makes me wonder, did things... — read more 

Asking from a purely financial point of view - medical, benefits, severance, etc. Retirement window is 2021. Sounds like the package gets you severance and lower medical for a period of time vs just retiring. Unless I’m missing something. TIA

Note to employees loving their WFH set-up: Your jobs may be outsourced to remote workers in other... — read more 

IBM paid approximately $2.6 million to $3.0 million per Red Hat employee (depending on when you count heads - offering date or closing date). When IBM paid $35.1 billion for the corporation it added $34.1 billion in "intangible assets." This Red Hat... — read more 

Google, Amazon, Apple, Facebook and IBM were among the top ten recipients of fresh H-1B visas in the 2019 fiscal, according to data from US Citizenship & Immigration Services. Let's see if Big Blew is still somehow able to remain in the Top 10... — read more 

IBM, he explained, is highly centralized, and even though he was a senior executive he was not empowered to make basic managerial decisions without corporate approvals. “I attempted to change the highly centralized corporate culture at... — read more 

Well golly gee, I wonder why there'd be job anxiety?? By: Angus Loten June 24, 2020 https://www.wsj.com/articles/job-anxiety-spills-into-tech-sector-11593038017 Nearly half of the technology workers at companies world-wide are worried about... — read more 

separation payment deposited to my bank account but did not receive payment statement . Anyone know how to get it

Of course they're in no rush to bring folks back to the office: it's much easier to close, vacate, and sell-off sites and RA employees when people aren't assembled... — read more 

Anyone have firm confirmed information that the rumored 3rd qtr USA RA will actually happen? If so would the notification date be no later than August 28th?

Anyone had their layoff proposal retracted?

More federal litigation IBM is embroiled in. https://www.marketscreener.com/INTERNATIONAL-BUSINESS-MA-4828/news/International-Business-Machines-Whistleblower-Claims-IBM-Defrauded-IRS-In-Software-Purchase-Arisin-30810937/

IBM is starting to look like a bumbling id–t in cloud services. They look like they are a new company that just got started in the business and doesn't totally get it yet. ... — read more 

Has anyone seen the latest video on recruitment from Rob Tabasco Thomas? The thing was about recruiting and maintaining talent at IBM. The video was delivered just on June 22nd, 2020. A bit ironic!!! There's a copy somewhere of the commentaries... — read more 

IBM does not need fresh leadership, they need leadership! As was said leaders inspire, willing to dig down and see that the troops are doing/thinking. When Ginny visited sites the local leadership hand pick who they wanted to interact with her. They... — read more 

Everyone I work with in IBM Canada is getting the dreaded meeting today. Some have already had them. They're scheduled for 30 minutes, but the script reading only takes 4. Not surprising as they devastated IBM US last month. Everything goes to... — read more 

Ok, depending on where you are, the notice period is different. But regardless, what do you guys do after you know you will be laid off? Do you continue to work hard and bring up your innovative ideas or do you lay back and take care of your things... — read more 

Share your story and leave management your parting message below!

https://seekingalpha.com/article/4355058-ibm-underwhelming-turnaround-persists-and-gets-worse

Here is the last paragraph. Looks like corporate America is buying into the preserve the legacy strategy IBM bought the right thing,” she said, referring to the Red Hat purchase. The unit’s area of expertise, hybrid cloud, is critical, as... — read more 

Retaining H1Bs while laying off American citizens is prosecutable visa fraud. Report visa H1B fraud here: https://www.uscis.gov/report-fraud/uscis-tip-form

Age, race, gender discrimination...but yet they constantly say they're an equal employer. Wow!

So RA all the veteran college-educated folks and replace them with cheap non-degreed "diversity" hires. Anyway to save $$$. . . https://fortune.com/2020/06/19/ibms-ginni-rometty-the-way-we-hire-must-change-and-we-must-do-it-now/

So apparently Big Blew is abandoning the whole agile and "should-to-shoulder" nonsense now. Whatever will become of our hallowed Agile... — read more 

In the separation agreement IBM has also offered financial planning services. Was wondering is anyone has utilized these services and if there is any feedback?

So wait, thought being agile demanded everyone be "shoulder-to-shoulder"? Are we no longer preaching agile? What will become of the Agile Champions? ... — read more 

Curious that there would suddenly be a bunch of job openings in IBM India. Nothing to see here, move along. . . https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/business/india-business/ibm-has-500-job-openings-in-india/articleshow/76436918.cms BENGALURU:... — read more 

We all know that no one is ever completely safe, but what would you call the safest brands to be in at IBM right now? Which brands do you see IBM investing in and are at least risk for making significant cuts? I personally would say IoT, Security... — read more 

Consulting is a VERY bad place to be right now. Think about it, their entire business model of flying around, sitting in meetings and blah blah, living in fancy hotels, charging $800/hr in consulting fees, its all being hit right now. Due to Covid19... — read more 

"Foreign high-tech workers are taking American jobs and making Silicon Valley's diversity problem worse, Rev. Jesse Jackson said in a Fortune interview. "There are Americans who can do that work, and H1B workers are cheaper and undercut wages,"... — read more