The scores of big-name executives he represented included Louis Gerstner (at RJR Nabisco Holdings Inc. and International Business Machines Corp.), George Fisher (Eastman Kodak Co.) and John Sculley (Apple Computer Inc.). The... — read more 

This year is finally coming to an end, I hope next year will be better for all of us. At one point I was scared of being laid off, but it didn’t happen, however, in the meantime I realized that in 2021 I want to leave the company for my own private... — read more 

I left in 2017 as the talks about older folks discriminaton was heating up. then, IBM seemed to be interested in changing the tune and making things work for older folks as well. How are things nowadays?

For my European colleagues have a look at the last status from extraordinary meeting EWC on 18-12-2020. You can find it on the intranet.

Allow me to summarize: "We are looking for folks that will work cheap and whose ceilings will remain low because they don't have college... — read more 

Wake up IBM Defund and dismantle Digital Sales immediately. With Covid there will be no traditional office environments for at least another year. Your Industry and Geo Sellers are basically Digital Sellers now. Digital is a total overlay and a... — read more 

The question really is can IBM exploit their monopoly power to raise profits faster than the cloud goes completely commodity. Newco needs a major haircut to compete. IBM is in the process of cutting (just look at Europe) IBM will continue down that... — read more 

There are layoffs going on now - client execs, digital sales, and hearing tech sales next, as IBM expect the sellers to pickup doing demos and the technical parts with the customers, on the FULL portfolio!! – the inmates have taken over the... — read more 

Mainframe and some Red Hat? What else?

IBM snaps up Finnish cloud firm Nordcloud as battle with AWS, Microsoft and Google heats up IBM said the acquisition will “turbocharge” its hybrid cloud consulting ability. IBM announced Monday that it has acquired Finnish cloud consulting... — read more 

Rob "Tabasco" Thomas resurfaces to deliver an ominous warning! https://www.cnbc.com/2020/12/16/managers-that-use-ai-will-replace-those-that-do-not-ibm-executive.html

The global markets teams got a mid day town hall invite by head of NA for January 4 and a follow up town hall by their industry GMs an hour after that. This is not normal. I’m suspecting we’ll find out very soon after if we’re staying or leaving. — read more 

Is it going to get better? What do you think will happen over next few years?

Got an email last night: 146 new Partner and Executive promotes in GBS. Employees in GBS haven’t gotten pay raises or bonuses in years. The company has seen a decline for the better part of a decade. How can they continue to reward incompetence... — read more 

Extreme, maniacal focus on Checkpoint by Dec 21 in Watson health and VPs and managers pushing hard do it now above clients deals or anything. Secret meetings and box files mysteriously vanishing.. all they care about is powerless no-point slides and... — read more 

December 15, 2020 Mrs. Virginia M. Rometty c/o IBM Corporation New Orchard Road Armonk, NY 10576 Dear Ginni, Your retirement from IBM comes with much admiration and appreciation for your 39 years of distinguished service to IBM. This... — read more 

https://www.theregister.com/2020/12/17/ibm_ceo_arvind_krishna_appointed_chairman/ Having the CEO and Chairman role combined is generally seen as bad practice, and it was Enron using this practice that partly drove the creation of Sarbanes-Oxley... — read more 

Once IBM announced the split IBM/NewCo, I understood that the company does not see me as an added value, but just as a cost. I am willing to get out of IBM before the RA will hit me. Which IT company should I choose?

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/ibm-acquires-expertus-technologies-inc-to-expand-hybrid-cloud-digital-payment-solutions-301193468.html Expertus is now part of IBM Global Business Services, following its previous successful alliance with... — read more 

We rank America’s largest publicly traded companies according to Peter Drucker’s principles of effectiveness—“doing the right things well.” Big Blew at #3!?!? Is this because of Red Hat being weighted as a much heavier contributor now based... — read more 

I did guess it was not possible. Who can do it ? The Op ? or the Admin of the site ? I hadn't the time to review some interesting comments (I'm wrong or they were regarding imminent RA actions) and moreover I would have been glad the chance to... — read more 

AK asks to share the thoughts on where IBM is wasting resources and where we can save money. Of course, this means that he is looking for the ideas where to cut next. How do you perceive this? Do you think the next rounds of RAs will be based on... — read more 

so hearing that managers, exec's, etc have been made to sign NDA's and that some big changes are afoot for IBM Jan and Feb, Apart from the obvious k–ling of the staff what has anybody heard? Ive heard software services will merge into GBS ... — read more 

This is about the only kind of list we can make these days. We used to be the best of, now we keep popping up on more and more worst of rankings. This one is 100 percent on point, I think... — read more 

The Blue Washing destruction has begun. . . https://www.itwire.com/open-source/red-hat-k–ls-off-centos,-users-frustrated-and-angry.html

I guess AK will just have to be happy being a contender. https://www.theregister.com/2020/12/08/forrester_wave_hybrid_cloud_management/

Would it be safe to pursue an opening (senior position) for GTS in the US at this point with so many layoffs and IBM splitting?

The old guard is alive and well, the lone wolf whose job is to maintain their own employment rules. Doing whatever it takes to keep their director role or above. A tough club to break into for sure. They are asked to hire 100 people with a mandate to... — read more 

Been with IBM for a long time we all know there will be a big reorg announcement in Jan. What’s your guess? is RA done in the US?

Dominic Daninger, vice president of engineering at Burnsville, Minn.-based Nor-Tech, an Nvidia high-performance computing system builder partner, said the hiring of Fields reflects the importance of the data center market to Nvidia, which... — read more 

Looking at the other major cloud providers, it seems that necessity to support their own retail needs is the biggest reason companies like Amazon, and Alibaba are so far ahead of a company like IBM. Instead of IBM continuing to acquire tech... — read more 

https://www.c—roachlabs.com/blog/why-i-left-ibm/

I don't get it. Anyone have a legitimate reason for doing this? Maybe I'm missing something.

If one player is doing it, they're all doing it and just haven't gotten yet. ( Link to the full complaint – https://s.wsj.net/public/resources/documents/DOJ%20Facebook%20visa%20lawsuit.pdf ) By: Deepa Seetharaman, Sadie Gurman and Michelle... — read more 

The voluntary offer is at management discretion which is the worst part. So you may opt for it but if management thinks you are key for them then they won’t give you the 6 month offer. So if you want to leave then you will just have to resign with... — read more 

https://www.crn.com/news/channel-programs/ibm-plans-massive-european-layoffs-ahead-of-newco-spin-off-report

Insert whatever holiday you prefer: All I want for _______ is to be Offered a Voluntary Layoff by IBM.