I just retired from IBM March 31. I had a young person on my team at IBM ask me for all my contacts at IBM over the years and any assets I developed prior to me leaving. No goodbye, good luck but instead just give me give me. In addition, my manager spent the last team meeting focused on an internal reporting tool issue and did not even spare me 2 minutes to say good bye to the team. Hard not to feel a little hurt but I am glad to be moving on. What is wrong with people? Do most people just lack empathy, especially the young people?
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Strong props on "My last day of work 6 years ago, I told no one ahead of time nor the day of. I completed My workday and drove off without looking back. ".
Now who's going to up the Ante and fill out WORKDAY and drive off at that point? Mad Props!
Thanks, I had to retire since I was beginning to feel I and others in my time period at IBM were like the last Samurai where honor means a great deal to us. There are unfortunately people at IBM who have lost any sense of honor.
I worked 6 months and knew immediately to quit that b/tch. The company had alot of d-mb people, cronyism, left wing re--rds with no vision or honesty. Company is becoming so irrelevant.
The good news is all of you fabulously smart individuals that work at IBM with so much knowledge will walk away after being treated so badly . And how ironic that you will go to different companies and choose not to use IBM. Do not stand for s companies like this anymore! I've watched seasoned employees treated so horribly and it's your turn no to take your skills to another company. I have several children college age and 2 pursuing tech and I'm telling them never ever ever work for this s** hole.
I left Ibm with 25 yrs of experience. Ended up in the collosal failure known as Watson Health. Horrible executives, woke culture ,lets hire a bunch of 20 year olds to run the company! How did that work out? I walked out the door retired early and said f you.
Congratulations on your retirement. Over the years I have witnessed some good retirement meetings that involve someone taking the initiative to create a nice Mural board where people can go in and write a nice message due to the remoteness of teams and then on the call people can highlight some of the messages. Sorry to hear no one took that initiative for your retirement. I wonder if the ask HR robot would know what to do to celebrate someone’s retirement after years of loyal service?
My last day of work 6 years ago, I told no one ahead of time nor the day of.
I completed My workday and drove off without looking back.
It was the greatest feeling of freedom.
My advice to You , Do not sit around...Go on daily walks and eat healthy.
Congratulations to You , Enjoy !
Congratulations on your retirement. The newbies really do not seem to know or care about the contacts and assets that we have gathered until they see the impending black hole.
I cleared out all my non IBM information long before I retired. I wiped my phone and laptop before handing them back.
The H1B1 that would be taking my job was clueless.
I made sure I had the time to say good bye to those that I respected.
Congratulations on your retirement and best wishes! IBM used to honor loyal employees who stayed with the company, now these loyal people are "dino babies" and IBM openly calls for "freshies". I assume you worked for IBM during its golden years; best to hold on to those memories and let memories of the new shallow IBM go.
The acid question is whether you think you owe IBM anything at this stage. I feel the answer has changed over time, to the point most now just say no?
In a modern society that values money above all other things, empathy is going to be hard to find outside one's own family (and oftentimes not even there). Be proud that you made it to retirement...it's quite an achievement, especially in the modern age. And after being proud, you can be glad that you made a clean exit!