Thread regarding IBM layoffs

"What is the mood in IBM offices now?"

It's ugly. Execs are panicking and putting extreme pressure on everyone below them, and it's going right down the line in management to the grunts. Managers are panicking because the big rumor is that the next big cut (soon) will have a lot of managers in it.

Nobody can accomplish the unrealistic goals, because customers just aren't interested. Period. So now anyone that has an opportunity, or call with a customer, is getting pressure from their manager to "include" them.

Managers are fighting over turf so they can try to be the one to avoid the reaper. It's very, very ugly inside.

The zombie RA'd employees from last round, who are here until June, are laughing at all of it and not returning calls from anyone or doing the turnover tasks required of them. They're the lucky ones.

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More layoffs are happening this week including my manager. People who know the job are being forced out. Then we have to listen to an all-hands call where our executives fall all over themselves to prove they have no stinking idea what we do or how to do it. What is the mood? If you're not here you wouldn't understand the depths of pain we all feel every day.

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It is just a toxic environment. Managers are fending for themselves. They care about no one but themselves. They are giving their employees nothing to support them. They even stopped their typical rah rah cheerleader roles. The first line managers are just the worst and honestly add no value. People all are running for the life boats of the sinking titanic.

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