"At least Cisco and Intel and other companies are honest about the fact that they're laying people off. Unlike IBM. IBM is incinerating the bodies to keep regulators from finding out and destroying careers and reputations in the process. All... — read more 

https://www.thehindu.com/business/Industry/ibm-to-close-china-rd-department-affecting-over-1000-jobs-yicai-reports/article68568718.ece ... — read more 

Sux! That is all

19 hours ago in https://forums.theregister.com/forum/all/2024/05/20/red_hat_prunes_middleware/ "Did they really retain McKinsey & Company, or did they actually bring William Hill on-board? Personally I don’t rate the odds on the gambles being... — read more 

http://techrights.org/n/2024/05/22/Red_Hat_Had_2_Days_to_Deny_Reports_of_Impending_Layoffs_But_Red.shtml

15 hours ago: "Looks a bit like the boneheaded management decisions on CentOS a couple of years ago really did ki-l off RHEL future growth prospects? Or maybe this is completely unrelated... Oh well, in any case time to cut R&D to the bone and milk... — read more 

@OP+1sDxIqT9

Long, long overdue. Should be announced Thursday

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/ibm-red-hat-sued-stephen-203247923.html

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13400269/IBM-Red-Hat-SUED-culling-white-men-CEO-punish-DEI-targets.html

"HashiCorp will retain its name and the Terraform brand. The 2,200-person company will report to Thomas’s IBM software group in its own division, and Thomas said IBM isn’t planning... — read more 

IBM filed a W.A.R.N with the state of North Carolina. That only means one thing.

https://www.crn.com/news/cloud/2024/paul-cormier-chairman-of-ibm-subsidiary-red-hat-to-retire

https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/message-red-hat-associates-today

"Chris Wright has been at RH long enough to remember the old internal memo-list maillist, before management split it into friday-list to stop people openly flaming d-mb management decisions."... — read more 

https://www.theregister.com/2023/04/24/ibm_red_hat_layoffs/

https://news.abplive.com/business/major-layoffs-in-2024-companies-cutting-jobs-this-year-tech-tesla-mckinsey-apple-amazon-1680411

April 24, 2023: https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/message-red-hat-associates-today

@OP+1rTMkj33

They are going to integrate RH into IBM. RH has not meet financial targets so no more standalone the IBM rto rules will go into effect and large layoff coming

Ummmmmm. . .any comment AK? How Whiteness Works internal slide -- https://twitter.com/JamesOKeefeIII/status/1736935129925513452 Allyship slide -- https://twitter.com/OKeefeMedia/status/1735816936838041887

BuhBYE Matty

A moment of silence for those soon-to-be-fallen former Nokia employees. https://wraltechwire.com/2023/06/29/red-hat-to-add-350-employees-in-cloud-deal-with-nokia-sees-wide-range-of-new-customers/

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2023/im-done-red-hat-enterprise-linux

@OP+1ngrUUdO

Anyone hearing anything ?

The IBM Borg Collective says resistance is futile!!!! secret memo describes discussions between Arvind and Hicks Red Hat is IBM and will be expected to act like it No more Raleigh Hippie Commune living!!

I know the times are tough and the budgets were sliced but is it still possible though?

If AI/ ML is so great lets replace flunkies like Hicks Nash Dudeck ALL C-\Suite

@OP+1mOlwbZu

Communication about layoffs is very poor. Why is that? Despite everything, I expected little more transparency.

https://www.theregister.com/2023/05/13/kyndryl_ibm_sued_discrimination/

About a month ago, my boss along with my colleagues was singing praises about how crucial I was for the upcoming projects. My boss even said that my contributions were going to be so important for the success of the team. And then, out of nowhere, I... — read more 

and a match!

The explanation for the cuts in my opinion can only be the greed of the leadership. Is there any justification at all for these cuts because I don't see it?

Most companies are 2 months and a week for every year. They stated it was going to be above market. Curious to know what that means so when the next round of layoffs happen, we know what to expect.

I know a few people who wouldn't mind leaving if severance is good enough. If they offered voluntary buyouts, they would probably jump at the opportunity and some of us who want to stay would be saved. This would be a win/win/win situation, for the... — read more 

and Ba----d Baby Blue was born.....layoffs when profits are good a sign of corporate greed and malfeasance. This is the antithesis of everything RH stood for. IBM better hope RH technology can catch them up to Google AWS and MS because peoplewise... — read more