This company is going downhill so much that I don't know if there is anything left that IBM is really good at?
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Evidently from all these response, just good at sucking
Go Woke get Broke
@6ygq+1fugifcz If you think IBM is the most woke company out there, then clearly you don't know the market. Not that there's anything wrong with it anyway.
The absolute GOAT at being WOKE
Charging 100 x what our competitors charge, and with very dodgy non working software.
We are good at drinking Kool-Aid. (sigh)
IBM is good at sending out pension checks. Mine have been arriving at the bank on time for the past 25 years! Other than that - not much...
Cadence calls and giving people very important titles that do nothing
@2nmh - And not a tube of Preparation H in sight!!! (From Mel Brooks' "The Inquisition") Here's the video (which also depicts current work conditions at IBM): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnF1OtP2Svk 😁
One of the best at financial engineering to keep stock price up at all costs.
I can name a few areas they've been very consistent.
- Nepotism
- Acquiring companies (then destroying)
- Creating more bloat
It's never ending, and explains the outlook of their stock.
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GR is still a POS!!!
Forgot:
Slideware (PPT)
and
Accounting
Corporate and technological delusions of grandeur
Generating class action lawsuits. (Exceeds expectations in this area!)
Really good at keeping large institutional investors on the hook.
" Money for nothin...." Dire Straits
Consulting! At least for non-IBM technologies.
Bullshitting
Promoting managers
They are very good at growing incompetent IBM lifers
Some great writers still on staff. And spending tons of money on marketing. Here's a little sample:
Better
Understand
Technology
Transforms
Serious
Efforts into
Xanadu. Xanadu?
- At discriminating
- Laying off people
- Stupid
How about discriminating They got that down pretty good
Layoffs We should do it as a service. Call is LaaS