Thread regarding IBM layoffs

Can confirm.

I sat and did nothing for many years - got paid very well too. S— it IBM.

I am 100% utilized but contribute 1% of my potential...

My management doesn't care...

I estimate I am about 18% utilized, and I contribute about 30% of my potential capacity. So in the company’s eyes, I am performing 12% above expectations. As such, I get a healthy raise each year, as well as a bonus. Will this last forever? Of course not. But it will last long enough to set me up for a great retirement. Pretty good gig if you ask me.

This is exactly why we rebalance the workforce (RA). The Folks saying they are idle now always weren’t, in fact they were probably once complaining that they were overworked. Now business has changed, accounts have terminated and customers have left. People are not 100% utilized and the system will catch up with them and weed them out and error on the side of cutting too many. It’s just a matter of time. This gravy train will not last forever.

"I don't like seeing that people sit doing nothing and earning big salaries because IBM s—s or because you're waiting for the layoff. As long as they pay you a big salary, it is not ethical to intentionally fail to earn it."

Well Ginni did it well!!! 10 yrs of failure 80mill plus in the bank

Is it like this when Rome fell to the barbarians ?

OP sez... "As long as they pay you a big salary, ..." Are you kidding? When was IBM a leader in big salaries for, say, developers? They are downright hostile to developers with their lower than average salaries and cargo cult agile and painfully ill informed managers who insist on adding puerile technical commentary despite their manifest ignorance.

Let me FTFY.... "As long as they pay mediocre wages in the tech universe and have clueless FLMs (who couldn't even name a popular programming language) and subject you to random acts of drive by management, you should do whatever actually gets you through the day." I think, OP, that's what you really meant to say. You just said it badly.

Why don't you tell this to execs who lays off hardworking employees.

Just wait till the end of March and you'll see the bloodbath.

You are definitely a HR troll... sorry to say.

I will have to agree with the other comments. IBM management is a disgusting Mafia...

It's true, when do you ever see a managers spouses being laid off? Never.
But they'll always lay off some of the few workers doing all the work.
Then they have nerve to put more pressure on the last one or two left.
It's disgraceful

Ginni did nothing for 8 years and made huge $$$$...so why can't I do the same ?

There is nothing wrong with criticizing your employer, its leadership and direction. Otherwise, there can be no improvements. Much as people talk about doing nothing, it’s just talk. IBM has too many measures and supervisory layers (upon layers) to not get noticed quickly. Most of the postings, as I see it, are from dedicated people who were unjustly impacted but found no recourse, so come here to vent, hoping things will improve. Until Ibm grows again, more IBMers will leave or let go soon enough.

You have it all backwards. If the company pays me for doing nothing, that is the company’s prerogative. I’m just playing THEIR game. In case you haven’t noticed, it is the fools “doing all the work” that are first to get laid off. “Ethics” has nothing to do with it. Just play the game and take in the cash. To do otherwise is a fool’s choice.