After ~10 years at IBM, I gave my 2 weeks notice to my manager on Friday. No, I don't have anything lined up. But I just can't take this anymore. The incompetence. Constantly laying off the few high performers we have. I wanted to do this last year but the virus made things a little complicated. I don't know what's next, but I know the first step to solving a problem is admitting you have one. IBM was the problem.
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@1qks+19papqgM
Can confirm (RAs this week)
Regardless how much frustrated I'm, I would not resign without something already lined up unless I'm at retirement age. I would only take the work that i could do and milk the IBM until they fire or put me on RA. If they screwed up your career, you are helping them by resigning. you should have kept my job with IBM, reduced performance, upgrade our skills and move when find right opportunity.
This is what majority of IBMers are doing who feel unsafe.
If you want to leave you might get lucky on Thursday. It’s 4 weeks after the earnings calls this wk which is traditionally the big RA and reorganization time.
@mdv+19papqgM
Hi OP. The 'working as designed' can only go so far. That is a real shame.
@qeg+19papqgM
Yep. I'm on the Enterprise hardware side. I can't see how we fit either, but what do we do with all those Fortune 100 clients? Many have regulatory requirements, too.
Silly me. Offshoring will cure our ills.
@laf+19papqgM I'm the OP and I work in Global Markets (sales). The breaking point was when a client had an issue with one of our products and the development team refused to fix it saying it was part of the product design. This was a month after an audit that destroyed another client relationship I put a lot of effort building. This is just unsustainable how we treat our clients. Not to mention, this week a lot of folks who were RA'ed in January are going to be officially booted. Someone I really respected was RA'ed. He was one of the few people I thought actually earned his paycheck. I'm lucky to be young enough where there's going to be some opportunities outside of IBM. I feel like I'm leaving an abusive relationship.
You have more guts than me - I just cannot muster up the courage after years of no promotion, management double speak, 0 raises and constant fear.
Kudos to you my friend - may God bless the brave.
@nyx All you can control is what you accomplish yourself, don't wait for someone else to accomplish something before you take control.
1af IBM does not want to be in the systems business, as it doesn’t align with Redhats strategy. Redhat is HW and OS agnostic. IBM will keep mainframe only because they are the only game in town. They will move OS’s over to cognitive division just to align them with Redhat migration/modernization. IBM would prefer to not spend another dime on HW. Everything else is on the block. If you work in mainframe systems, you may have the golden handcuffs attached, especially if you work on a Fortune 500 customer. Otherwise, it’s a good bet IBM will push the eject button on you
I am right behind you. My heart is ready to explode from the stress.
The paper pushers who put all the burden on me will soon be screwed.
Relocate? Go get F'd
@OP+19papqgM
Hi from a guy in Systems. Just curious, what was your job. I'm tired of this myself and I would also welcome a package.
After many years of working in a terrible part of IBM for years, now fortunate to be in a brighter spot.
And as much as my IBM journey has been uncomfortable and incredibly unpleasant, I have also been blessed.
My goal is to give IBM at least a couple more years, but I want to see changes. I want IBM to become more pragmatic and more aware of its terrible facets and hold those facets accountable.
I do believe it can happen bottom up too, but that requires everyone to set aside ego, be pragmatic and stop behavior that encourages wheel spinning.
Seriously, developers and designers and offering managers that focus on reinventing wheels over and over again. No wonder why IBM is not seen as an innovation company in the eyes of outsiders.
Just waiting for an offer which should come shortly... then I will be out. In US, Integration Lab Services. IBM k–led 90% of the folks during the last two RAs in that US team... I guess going forward most of the work will go to business partners...
Smart - IBM/NewCo are doomed. Amazon, Microsoft, and Google ate their lunch. Game over f—tards.
I too am joining you soon. The NewCo announcement and how HR makes the call that no one can move to other jobs within is an insult to an employee’s freedom. I got two offers so far, other tech companies are doing great and wondering how IBM is managing to drop revenue in those great times!
10 years wasted. Sad. The H1Bs that you trained up should be safe.
I'm right behind you. If I hang on until May, I can take retirement
I'm joining you soon. Our business model/strategy just isn't going to make it very far and the cuts will be inevitable. Might as well leave on my own terms.