A former colleague of mine went offline for a few weeks. I contacted his brother and found out he had an aneurysm from layoff related stress. Their suspicion is stress caused an increase in blood pressure which lead to his brain aneurysm.
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The person had the brain aneurysm to begin with. The worry and related conditions could have caused it to rupture but the aneurysm was medically already there. Many reasons for one said by one who has both brain and heart aneurysms. I'm a walking time bo-b and can only hope I'm still employed when they bleed so my wife can collect insurance.
Krishna : ‘IBM dinosaur-rejects risk heart attack or aneurysm while facing unavoidable fate of becoming obsolete, while realizing this competitive industry is made for young people and age discrimination is real’
In pro sport, they say pressure is a privilege; at IBM, it can ki-l older employees who try to hold on to their jobs
Well my first job was for a really, I mean REALLY, cushy role and none of my friends or family or myself could understand how one get a first job like this.
It turns out that my predecessor had a heart attack at that very desk, died before the paramedics arrived at that desk. Company couldn’t pay anyone internal enough to sit there. After I delivered the project a year later, someone clued me in about what happened.
Stress is an unfotuate part of the job at IBM waiting each quarter to get laid off while work piles up. There was an incident of an employee in Canada who died by su----e at work a few years ago.
Stress is real.
Depression is real.
If you are worried about using the insurance provided mental health services, call 988 and get help.
IBM Research is working on Artificial Aneurysms .. the next big thing!
Lay us off = we might get brain aneurysms.
I can't. Just stop
AK said: “American students spend more than $300k for a college education and then I replace them with cheaper Indians; this is stressful for them; that’s how I make my $80 million per year compensation package “
@ab+1jyfe4ta8 No he’s not a current worker. He was a former coworker but is working for the govt when stress got to him. Unfortunately he reached out and we didn’t really know just how badly he was asking us for help.
A brain aneurysm does not occur because of IBM.
It may be stressful but so are a lot of things in life - not everyone develops a brain aneurysm
the causes are so multifactoral.
You are reaching, unfortunately.
Sorry to hear that and hope he recovers.
In a just universe, every IBM-induced stress-related illness, aneurysm, heart attack, stroke, hypertension, depression, self-harm would get added to Alvind's karma. There are ways to go about making difficult decisions as a CEO, and he has chosen the most cruel, inhumane methods while personally profiting off of it and appearing to enjoy it immensely. Fracking sociopath.