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