Investing in the cultivation and brainwashing of the cheap labor force in the next offshore sweatshop destination. . . https://punchng.com/ibm-to-spend-25m-on-youth-empowerment-in-nigeria-others/

I have heard about the restructuring of UKI and NA as they fail to make their numbers. I was also told that a major restructuring will occur with CICs taking the lead for all delivery, meaning no local delivery organizations anymore. Many countries... — read more 

There are thousands of ex ibmers who now in new positions have influence on whether IBM is awarded new business. Independent of how each may have been treated, they know of the dysfunction and poor performance that prevails across all sectors.

This is a very different development as far as China vs IBM vs the US Government. I think, there has to be some agreement baked into this deal, to guarantee future sales to Govt entities... — read more 

One would think that there is nothing left to be said about the purchase of RedHat, but this article certainly had a good view on the situation, as it precisely pinpoints the reasons why this buy was a mistake and gives some excellent advice what can... — read more 

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Been looking for some extra income - there are some opportunities on Upwork or externally (one of them would make me a contractor for Microsoft)... Anyhow, does that conflict with our IBM contract as a salaried employee? It's not coding or anything... — read more 

You poor, dumb, naive fool....... https://www.heraldsun.com/news/business/article221033395.html “I love the culture that we’ve all built together.” (Red Hat CEO Jim) Whitehurst said. “(A)nd the reason I got so excited about this is Ginni gets that... — read more 

Competition is licking its chops waiting to pounce on a bloated anaconda that just devoured a wild hog. https://www.bizjournals.com/triangle/news/2018/11/13/could-red-hat-deal-be-a-distraction-for-ibm-unisys.html The IBM-Red Hat deal could be the... — read more 

When we got acquired it took about a year before IBM played musical chair with all the managers moving in IBM managers that had no clue what they were taking over. Shortly after that the bluewashing and chopping started, many of the brighter stars... — read more 

Only thing the "new collar" skills will bridge is the dearth of employees created by the next round of layoffs. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ibm-ceo-ginni-rometty-hopes-new-collar-skills-will-bridge-digital-divide-ai/

And the earth-shattering proclamations continue! https://cheddar.com/videos/ibms-bob-lord-redhat-acquisition-makes-ibm-the-top-hybrid-cloud-provider https://cheddar.com/videos/ibms-quest-for-the-cloud

I believe you will see GBS get nuked. (that’s essentially outsourcing, consulting, and erp projects). It encompasses most of IBM India. (approx 120k worth of heads). Will IBM roll some of those head under GTS. Of course, but they will also roll some... — read more 

Truven and others have been gutted and it looks like they can't "move the needle" with Watson for Oncology. Are there more layoffs coming? Will the moonshot be quietly buried?

In previous IBM acquisitions, how long did it take before layoffs started? And I'm talking about layoffs at acquired company. Also, did layoffs focus specifically on duplicated positions or was there a general RIF to reduce the operational costs of... — read more 

The Bottom Line on IBM Stock When all is said and done, Red Hat won’t do much to alter IBM’s fiscal stagnation. Synergy is the intended outcome of most acquisitions, and it’s not clear if this deal will create any synergy. And IBM just paid a steep... — read more 

Huge December layoffs for GBS North America, UKI, and the Global teams. Europe will be spared. Even billable resources aren’t safe. I was warned that if your team hasn’t heard about doing end of year administrative things like sales credit, project... — read more 

This article covers a wide range of aspects regarding the RedHat acquisition and the general conditions at IBM these days, and I have to say that I agree with the part that says that the Red Hat acquisition was a desperate act from a company that is... — read more 

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The Game of Thrones world that surrounds IBM executives has been the same since I joined IBM in the 1970s. C-level executives are always looking to leave their mark. Early 1970s Frank Cary - Declared mainframes will never die but admits that the PC... — read more 

Now that IBM sank 34 billion into Red Hat , you can bet massive layoffs in service. Also when Lenovo pulled out ,this took about 70 percent of the business volumes. Management will also be hit heavily, low hanging expensive fruit that is prime for... — read more 

You cant remove her. https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/04/27/exec_pay_in_2017_bernstein_report/

Thought I would start the thread. Informed I was part of a resource action yesterday. 90 days notice/30 days pay. North America sales.

Really who cares about fast start it’s nothing but a waste of time and money. This is why IBM can’t make money because they waste more time to play and partying then out in the real world. Doing business. IBM A losing company.

Happy holidays from IBM 85+ Walgreen dedicated Technicians let go before the holidays !! Reason: they make to much and are hiring low cost labor to replace them.

In light of the recent RedHat acquisition, this article provides the list of all the top companies that were acquired by IBM. How successful did those purchases turn out to be? You can be the judge of that... — read more 

If there will be no layoffs at Red Hat as part of the merger, does that mean that the consolidation will hit our side exclusively? That is certainly not going to create a welcoming environment for the newcomers... — read more 

The layoffs are going to come in a different flavor in 2019. Ibm will Be spinning off a large portion of legacy HW and services. As such IBM will stuff the spinoffs with unwanted folks just like they did with Lenovo. Once the spinoff’s are complete... — read more 

So Christmas 2018 is approaching and will anyone take a bet to say IBM won't layoff, or off shore more jobs. This could be in the US, Europe or Asia, nothing should be ruled out by Ginni and her elves. Profit warnings or contractions in sales... — read more 

Not my thread I just recycled 2018 post... You can see i there @OLbfSBK I will be the first one to start it – let’s talk about IBM Resource Action for 2019. I know that there are some rumors already floating around, but let’s consolidate things in... — read more 

https://www.bizjournals.com/triangle/news/2018/11/02/red-hat-ceo-there-are-no-planned-layoffs-with-34b.html

Perhaps this was the plan all along: drive the stock price down to nothing, then buy a pile of shares for pennies on the dollar? Or is this just a $3M dollar PR stunt to prove to investors that they shouldn't dump and run, but buy too?... — read more 

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/red-hat-soar-ibm-deal-134926659.html Some of the comments hit the nail on the head Gini is a terrible CEO. She just put the nail in the coffin of a roughly 100 year old company. This is a desperate move. They had a lead... — read more 

I am personally very skeptical about the purchase of RedHat, especially with the price that was paid. This article states that IBM saw in RedHat something that the competition failed to see and provides an insight on the ways that it plans to benefit... — read more 

IBM's second biggest acquisition was BI company Cognos for $5 billion in 2008 The implosion of Cognos is the same as similar acquisitions like SPSS and Algorithmics: First year of bluewashing goes OK. IBM goes out their way to attribute as much... — read more 

The problem is that IBM employees across corporate departments are not unified. The best description I have heard is that IBM internal organizations are a loose collection of warring nation states. Organizations are out to optimize their "value" at... — read more 

“Buzzwords like Watson, AI, and now hybrid cloud have been little more than empty rallying cries that have left IBM investors in tears,” says David Nelson, chief strategist at Belpointe Asset Management. Since Rometty took over in early 2012, IBM... — read more 

If your experience is in IT per se (programmer, DB, business system analyst, etc.), I wouldn't recommend at all looking for a job in another big tech-related Company like Oracle, Dell, IBM, MS, etc., etc., because sooner or later it will be the same... — read more 

Perhaps good news for Ubuntu but guessing this is real bad news for AIX. https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2018/10/mark-shuttleworth-thinks-ibm-buying-red-hat-is-good-news-for-ubuntu

Rumor has it that if your first line manager is trying to have you take a New role is because you on the RA list. This was heard more than once. by your VP