Thread regarding IBM layoffs

Former IBMers are prized and valued

There IS life after IBM and you will enjoy not clinching up in anticipation of a dreadful week ahead. My blood pressure is SO much better. I could hear my pulse throbbing. Hopefully you can either retire or find a job where you're appreciated. Former IBMers are prized and valued. I was lucky in that I could move and my wife could work remotely.

Unfortunately Ginni has bet the company on Cloud, Blockchain and Watson - I can tell you the outside world really doesn't care about anything other than AWS and Azure. If they don't get something viable out soon for Blockchain then they will have another Us Too product (YET AGAIN)

Taken from @VwFDc9z-esrs. I was thinking more people should read a rare positive perspective.

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blockchain is BS.

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block block block bloooooooooock bloooooooock blooooooockchain bloooock bloooooockchain

(pronounce it like chicken noises)

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I do think IBMers have skills that should be prized and valued. However, when I started searching for a job, I discovered that 18+ years at IBM was not necessarily impressive to my potential employers. Some of them seemed to have a preconceived notion that IBM was stuck in the past and I had been living in a bubble for the last many years and my skills must be woefully out of date. I will admit that this attitude caught me off guard the first time I encountered it. After all, I was working in Watson Health so it was pretty much the forefront of development in the company!

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Blockchain? Cmon, we cannot even sell IT services at the moment.

Blockchain? lol are you kidding me, Blockchain? - coach Mora

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Outside of the classic 200-300 customers (mostly mainframe), IBM is largely irrelevant. Somethings that's a lack of competitive and compelling products (ok a lot of the time), but it's also because the company has exactly zero clue how to scale down and sell outside of the ELA financial sleight of hand that most of the revenue comes from.

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