How often do they happen? Any chance they have a heart and won't do anything like that before January?

AT&T Outsourced it’s Tech Dev departmental to IBM and the Employee’s were given a 1 year contract. I am wondering if IBM will extend our contract. AT&T paid their employees good money and I know IBM will probably cut our salary. Was wondering if we... — read more 

Anyone surprised? https://thelogic.co/news/exclusive/ibm-is-trying-to-block-a-large-group-of-ottawa-workers-from-unionizing-within-the-company/ IBM is trying to block a large group of Ottawa workers providing information technology services to... — read more 

Hoping someone on the site can provide informed insight pls?. Having been tuped into IBM this year and agreed terms to retain an enhanced redundancy package here in the UK. Will IBM have to honour these terms indefinitely OR are there any examples... — read more 

And heard same heading to Germany and US . Has anyone has any detail about it . Sad news though

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/10/17/ibm_q3_2019_financials/?fbclid=IwAR1mtYaMUe_C75SfhOVpBVVOd_7lyZ54qkIaV6MujBUkkkyvsyhW71C0f24 IBM: Why yes, Red Hat is doing great. Thanks for asking. The rest of Big Blue? Sure, wait – someone's at the... — read more 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNQmmpa9liA&feature=youtu.be Discussing and summarizing the damning case against IBM for age discrimination violations.

https://towardsdatascience.com/would-you-buy-insights-from-this-guy-1a3054574bda

NA will be a leakage is rampant, exec's telling partners to use lower bands to recover costs... deals will not close and are being lost. Older employees being pushed out or planned to be in 1st quarter when the news pops on the street. Look at... — read more 

AWS taking pot shots now: Ginni, you listening? https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-web-services-ceo-andy-jassy-ibm-oracle-aws-reinvent-2019-12

IBM has pushed all of their chips to the middle of the table. 3rd Q was a disaster from any point of view that you wish to take. (revenue,profit, Redhat, strategic, cloud, etc etc). IBM is betting the farm on Z15 in 4th Q. There is... — read more 

This is an interesting article suggesting most of the Legacy HW makers (IBM, Cisco, HPE, HP, Xerox, Oracle) are ripe for restructure due to technology passing them by. What is interesting is they suggest IBM MAY surpass Google in the cloud via... — read more 

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/01/18/ibm_government_lying_claims/ A former senior executive at IBM has claimed she was ordered to lie to the US government about just how many older workers Big Blue was laying off. And she says she was fired... — read more 

There are others with less stellar records that might start to feel the heat. IBM (IBM) has earned investors almost nothing over the past five years, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average is up about 12% a year on average over the same... — read more 

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/11/25/ibm_uk_settles_281_age_discrimination_cases/ Bet that won't have been cheap IBM has paid off 281 people who brought age discrimination claims against it in UK Employment Tribunals – leaving four more... — read more 

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/09/23/ginni_rometty_ibm_email_age_discrimination/ Big Blue on blast for trying to wriggle out of revealing Operation Baccarat blueprints IBM was ordered late on Friday to produce communications from CEO Ginni... — read more 

Another issue is cost. By the time many tech workers are in their 50s and 60s, Mr. Solomon said, they often have top-level compensation packages. “If a company can get someone with a similar skill level who is earlier in their career, they... — read more 

A broader metaphor for IBM's struggles. https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/21/tech/ai-cambridge-university-debate/index.html

Nothing works without this.

@11WlQjli

Has anyone heard about Q3 layoffs? My team has been hit by so many budget cuts that we couldn’t have the resources to achieve our goals. I’m concerned.

A small measure of justice. https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20191114005740/en/Whitfield-Bryson-Mason-LLP-Wins-Major-Victory

Seems like an interesting method to assist in identifying folks for the headsman's axe. https://www.extremetech.com/computing/301863-ibm-our-mac-using-employees-outperform-windows-users-in-every-way

Our department recently found motion sensors placed under our desks to presumably track how long we are spending in the office and at our desks. Has anyone else found these?

"I am worried this digital era will not be inclusive if we don't make it inclusive, so it means widening who you can hire," she said during her keynote at IBM's Cloud Innovation Exchange in Sydney on Tuesday. Maybe IBM can even... — read more 

'I don't think IBM and Oracle will get that much bigger' Indeed, I'm sure we will get smaller, much smaller. https://www.businessinsider.com/ibm-oracle-amazon-forrester-report-2019-11

https://seekingalpha.com/news/3518119-ibm-adding-axa-ceo-board I wonder why it’s taking him 6 months to come on board. IBM needs more help ASAP not 6 months from now

RAs in IBM Research as soon as Friday November 8 2019. Just rumors and whispers so far. Hopefully won't happen, but here is a placeholder thread just in case. Can anyone confirm hearing anything?

"Lee said he's been taking depositions for another IBM case in San Francisco in which he interviewed the head of IBM's commissions program. After asking her about the capping of commissions, he said, "I asked her whether employees could trust IBM... — read more 

They just keep coming. . . https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/11/05/ibm_sued_unlawful_sales_commission_tactics/

What will Big Bleu do to counteract this impact to what has so far been their consistent stream of indentured servants? https://insights.dice.com/2019/11/04/ibm-h-1b-petitions-trump-restrictions/

More B.S. regarding the investment in re-training, etc. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2019-11-01/ai-s-impact-will-extend-to-100-of-jobs-ibm-video IBM Vice President of People and Culture Obed Louissaint discusses results of the MIT-IBM... — read more 

So as a recent acquistion of IBM that was slotted into GTS, I received the notice that having missed our targets there would be no bonus for the quarter and it made me curious how frequently this has occurred to GTS in the recent past? How often are... — read more 

And so it begins. Red Hat Culture is being destroyed from within. Leadership roles are being filled with yes people & top down managers from EMC, Net App, Cisco, HP, etc. The true Red Hatters who had been responsible for what IBM wanted, are... — read more 

as much work as possible is going off shore for all areas of the business. RAs are happening for xmas holiday season and into 1st qtr 2020. Division mgmt is a joke, they make these terrible deals to get a foot hold, loose millions on millions and... — read more 

"The tech company is looking for different ways to fill “new-collar” jobs in its 360,000-employee workforce by adding digital badges and apprenticeships and deepening partnerships with community... — read more 

Not my thread, here I am recycling 2018 and 2019 threads. Starting early this year. For 2019 and 2018, see @VZzqzzM and @OLbfSBK - not changing anything except years... I will be the first one to start it – let’s talk about IBM Resource Action... — read more 

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-23/microsoft-sales-profit-top-estimates-on-cloud-azure-slows Microsoft is also starting from a much larger cloud base, and IBM's "cloud" number includes a bunch of legacy software that has nothing to... — read more 

All she did was announce losses - so, is it time for her to go? Long overdue?