All they see when they push for getting rid of older and long tenured employees is the money they can save on their pay by hiring somebody new and cheaper. What they don't see is all the problems that come from losing so much long term institutional knowledge - and usually to our competitors who are happy to scoop them up. Those problems are not in their sights because they don't affect results immediately but over time. But if anybody was smart to look at our results over more than a quarter would see how much this has been affecting the company. I'm not holding my breath to see it happen, though.
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I remember the days of the onsite SEs. The client came with a problem and IBM solved it, hardware and/or software. IBM was the one-stop-shop. Now IBM is an embarrassment. Presite? What's that? Who sized your system? Who designed this replication mess? How did we ship this firmware out with an obvious defect? And so on....
I've seen this happen within my own group which used to be 12+ older people and now is down to just me, and I have since been assigned to a different project. Our former group's customers are all soon to going to need upgrades to their legacy IBM systems, but all of our old group's institutional knowledge resides now in me. Unfortunately for them and IBM, I am about to accept an offer with another company, and it will not be possible to transfer that knowledge without hands-on close-proximity teamwork, which is not allowed during covid. Those customers will be forced to look elsewhere, which means IBM will miss out on some very high-margin contracts totaling $30M, the profits of which would easily have paid the salaries of myself and my former colleagues for many years. IBM loses money long term, and likely will lose other business from those soon-to-be-angry customers. These customers are all top 200 companies.
But hey, some bean counter saved IBM a million bucks last year by eliminating a dozen people. Probably got themselves a bonus.
Smart people make mistakes, but stupid people just keep on making stupid choices. Sorry but IBM leadership is the latter.
IBM is one BIG mistake after an another. Very sad. Deaf and dead company walking!!!