Any information to share?
Earlier today, president and chief executive officer of Red Hat, Matt Hicks, shared the following email with Red Hatters.
https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/evolving-our-middleware-strategy
Is Red Hat affected by IBM mass layoffs? No comment?
https://www.thehindu.com/business/Industry/ibm-to-close-china-rd-department-affecting-over-1000-jobs-yicai-reports/article68568718.ece ... — read more
Probably Red Hat also
https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/01/kyndryl_layoffs/
"Agree they layoff in smaller amounts to bypass the laws about reporting it."
"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
Matt Hicks
Sux! That is all
Layoffs to be announced this week
Long, long overdue. Should be announced Thursday
management did ki-l off RHEL future growth prospects
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
IBM's Red Hat SUED over culling 21 white men employees as CEO vowed to punish managers who missed DEI targets
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13400269/IBM-Red-Hat-SUED-culling-white-men-CEO-punish-DEI-targets.html
He is way below retirement age
https://www.crn.com/news/cloud/2024/paul-cormier-chairman-of-ibm-subsidiary-red-hat-to-retire
Get ready Hatters
IBM filed a W.A.R.N with the state of North Carolina. That only means one thing.
Red Hat is paying McKinsey, the layoffs expert, instead of paying its own staff (McKinsey has layoffs too)
https://news.abplive.com/business/major-layoffs-in-2024-companies-cutting-jobs-this-year-tech-tesla-mckinsey-apple-amazon-1680411
IBM’s Red Hat Sued by Stephen Miller’s Legal Group for Anti-White Male Bias
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/ibm-red-hat-sued-stephen-203247923.html
Fire thousands at Red Hat, then buy Microsoft hashicorp
"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
friday-list
"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
Someone hand me my Fedora
and a match!
Red Hat RTO Return to Office is NEXT on the IBM agenda
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!!
More layoffs on the way
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
Leaks from Red Hat on "Whiteness" and "Allyship"
Ummmmmm. . .any comment AK? How Whiteness Works internal slide -- https://twitter.com/JamesOKeefeIII/status/1736935129925513452 Allyship slide -- https://twitter.com/OKeefeMedia/status/1735816936838041887
Relocation from EMEA to US?
I know the times are tough and the budgets were sliced but is it still possible though?
Red Hat to add 350 employees in cloud deal with Nokia, sees ‘wide range of new customers’
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/
Arvind says Matt Hicks is moviing on[pushed]
BuhBYE Matty
I am dobe sith Enterprise Linux
https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2023/im-done-red-hat-enterprise-linux
When does the other shoe drop?
Anyone hearing anything ?
Don't trust your boss
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
An incomprehensible move
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?
What is the Above Market Severance Package??
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.
The Day Red Hat died
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
And now we wait
I find it especially cruel that the leadership decided to let us know layoffs are happening and then add that it will take several weeks to implement them. That leaves all of us to think of nothing else but layoffs for weeks to come. And we all know... — read more
Red Hat Is The New IBM
Specifically, sales of software (includes hybrid platform & solutions, transaction processing) reached $5.8 billion, up 15.4% yoy at constant currency; hybrid platform & solutions up 10% in constant currency; and Red Hat up 21%. +21%, eh? ... — read more
9am layoff call
Red Hat finally joins the rest of tech. 9am layoff call today, April 24th 2023. Sorry Red Hat friends.
The management should ask for volunteers
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
Who's doing fine here?
Some say RH can actually be a pretty good place to work. Is anyone doing good here except those at the top of the hierarchy and maybe those for whom RH is a first job and are just getting their first work experiences?
Getting Ready
Red hat people, you may think you're safe, but the first year revenue stumbles, the absorption will start. It'll begin by moving to common benefits, then common salary bands and other hr practices, then aligned development processes, and finally... — read more
Jim Whitehurst is becoming IBM’s president
IBM’s Ginni Rometty Steps Down as CEO effective April 6. https://www.cnbc.com/2020/01/30/ibm-ceo-ginni-rometty-steps-down-arvind-krishna-to-take-over.html
Good time to join?
Is it a good time to join RH? Thinking of applying for one of the documentation or tech writer jobs. Any insights into that department and decent comp?