I’m tired of the BPIPs, RA’s and non-stop exits. Every. Single. Day. Nobody seems safe either. Delivery people, 100% billable, have been let go. Partners and senior partners that actually know how to sell have been let go. I know there used to be plenty of dead weight, but we’re cutting far beyond the fat. As a seller (that actually sells), I’m concerned that we don’t have the delivery folks to deliver anymore!
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Spot on : @lvg+1ngrK2Ym
IBM (and I say this with an incredible amount of personal sadness) is the poster-child of toxic late-stage capitalism.
TIRED THREAD TOPIC. I mean I get it but TIRED THREAD TOPIC. Just Leave like I did!
the need to layoff at Baton Rouge CIC, they have large bench pools of resources with no certs
Actually the ‘down vote’ army is when I realized this Layoff IBM is having a real impact in being a source of truth for so many IBMers that ibm executives are feeling threatened. Whoever thought of the down vote thing, should be fired for stupidity.
Don’t pay attention, vote abuses get reseted.
Strange - I'm actually watching the down voting on the OT click -1 vote every second - which to me seems that IBM has a bot on this site automating the down votes. It is indeed a very sad day for IBM. At least IBM automated something correctly. Imagine having the job of setting that up and going home at night thinking you've done a job! I've been at IBM 10 years, of those 10 years, only 1 year was there no threat of being RA'd. I look to my left and one person has gone, a month later the person to my right has gone. It is no way to exist. IBM does indeed treat their employees terribly. Both through poor annual increases and the farcical GDP. It is fair to say everyone I know who works at IBM is sick of IBM. btw: 60 down votes since I started typing this, then it stopped.
Yep, here come the downvoting trolls from HR and elsewhere.
Wow. Go from +25 upvotes to -30 in the span of a few hours. Looks like the company found this and paid there trolls to downvote. Real nice.
Yet IBM execs are willing to shell out $5 billion for Apptio - way overvalued
Love the comment about CSMs as “Human Shields”. - sounds about right!
Yup this! Seems the only ones they’ve been hiring recently are more CSMs (human shields) and that’s slowing down
I totally agree. It’s brutal. Consultant in the US here. Lots of my good friends and colleagues have been impacted by it.
What bothers me the most is the likes of Papas and Granger just sit there on their all hands and don’t say a word about it. And then just push Watson down our throats.
Success breeds success, and failure breeds failure. IBM's corporate culture over the years has evolved in many aspects into a culture of failure.
The accounts about "100% billable delivery people" and "senior partners that actually know how to sell" being let go have been continuing nonstop ever since Lou Gerstner, and probably before him (Akers). The people may be productive as individuals, but the organization up the line is either not making their revenue targets, or is losing money outright. Rather than reassign the productive individuals to other parts of the company where they might be better utilized, corporate policies dictate that those people be let go. Not only are they terminated, but they are "terminated with extreme prejudice". Their employee records are marked so that it is difficult or impossible to rehire them ever again, for any function.
These employees go elsewhere, spreading tales of woe in their paths. Potential clients have been hearing these tales of woe for decades now, and you know how they are voting. Failure breeds failure...failure to humanely and efficiently utilize human resources eventually results in potential clients and potential revenue going somewhere else.