IBM Employee It Sucks To Be You.

[PEB]

Internally it's a blood bath with firings and layoffs according to search agencies. There is a huge shakeup and senior level people are getting pushed out. Apparently almost 20 percent of the workforce has been hit. This apparently is just the beginning of the shakeup. Crazy times but according to them they have nearly equal number of hirings.
http://www.businessinsider.com/ibm-layoffs-1-month-severance-2016-3

 

[TheRatman]

Meanwhile Costco giving out dollars raises to everybody.

 

[AronaBeatsJones]

My first desktop PC in 1998 was an IBM.

266MHz processor
32MB RAM
3.66GB hard drive
ATI Rage Pro 3D card (2MB vRAM)
CD-ROM drive
56k dial-up modem

Awesome.

 

[TheRatman]

Reading the link it says they letting go so they can hire different types of employee to change up thjngs to cloud services. Cant the current employee get certified for the type of work they changing up to. I am guessing more cloud networking type shit.

 

[MaureenCretis]

My first desktop PC in 1998 was an IBM. 3.66GB hard drive, 32MB RAM, 266MHz processor. Awesome.

My first computer had 1kb RAM.

 

[AronaBeatsJones]

My first computer had 1kb RAM.

Ah, back in the old days, when you used to ride a bike to a friend's house and knock on the door to ask if they were home.

 

[Avenger]

1 month severance no matter how long you worked there is total BS. That suck for the employees but IBM is on the way out of the tech industry.

 

[KONG-D'SNT-TAP]

1 month severance no matter how long you worked there is total BS. That suck for the employees but IBM is on the way out of the tech industry.

They invented a quantum computer chip that is looked at as ground breaking.

If that is out of the tech industry that's news to me

 

[ICHEERTHEBULL]

All bosses are barstards

 

[marioh]

fuck ibm.
1 month severance.
fuck ibm, hope all of their senior executives involved in this decision get AIDS.

 

[Clippys Mom]

All bosses are barstards

Hey easy guy!

Spoiler

True

Spoiler

most of the good one's get destroyed

 

[PEB]

Reading the link it says they letting go so they can hire different types of employee to change up thjngs to cloud services. Cant the current employee get certified for the type of work they changing up to. I am guessing more cloud networking type shit.

I hear that 8 out of 10 of these types of jobs are going to overseas hires meaning cheaper labor markets. Ginni Rometty is completely useless I was hoping that she was going to move IBM off of big iron and focus on cloud and services but do a better job laying off people 1 month severance is a huge middle finger to long term employees with the company. Marc Benioff "Salesforce CEO" is reaching out to try to help displaced IBM employees jobs with his company.



He is also happy to show there is going to be a new big fish in New York looking for employees to fill positions in the company.

 

[Hearse Lightning]

Better than working at Sears from what I hear.

 

[Iscariott]

From what I have heard from IBM employees most of the layoffs were to rehire the same position for less money(either here or abroad). FU Big Blue.

 

[WorldofWarcraft]

Learn a trade, join a union, then retire in 20 years is what I always say. Or get a government job, retire in 20 years.

 

[marioh]

Fuck IBM.
May their computers, servers, and backups all get hit by ransomware.

 

[Halge]

Well, they do what they have to do I guess.

 

[Iscariott]

Well, they do what they have to do I guess.

Really?

 

[Loiosh]

My first computer had 1kb RAM.

The first meg of RAM I ever bought cost me a thousand dollars.

 

[Execute]

If they're truly offshoring jobs, they're idiots. I'm finding that it's actually more expensive long-term to do so. Those types of resources generally require a fuck ton of documentation and lack critical thinking. Add in the lack of quality and constant rework... Offshoring is a joke.