Watching IBM has received a number of messages related to this incident. Our thoughts go out to the family. Please post anon. There was an incident today at the IBM Canada headquarters, at 3600 Steeles. In what appears to be a suicide, a man jumped... — read more 

"International Business Machines Corp. is training hundreds of Kenyan coders in Nairobi each year;" Sounds like they've been ramping-up yet another low-cost, offshore, workforce for awhile now... — read more 

Something potentially positive if you're a COBOL programmer who was recently RA'd or had been RA'd at some point previous. . . https://thenextweb.com/finance/2017/04/10/ancient-programming-language-cobol-can-make-you-bank-literally/

A downward trend on the horizon. . . https://seekingalpha.com/news/3256406-ibm-bear-says-free-cash-flow-overstated "Apr. 10, 2017 12:40 PM ET After pulling out one-time items like a lower tax rate, Bernstein’s Toni Sacconaghi figures IBM's 2016 free... — read more 

Associating with IBM is a waste of valuable time in an IT professional's career. Now, the organization is run on quarterly basis. They have also started layoffs in IBM India. They retain people only in lower bands or people with avg salary less than... — read more 

Remember: 1Q17 results announced on 4/18. . . http://247wallst.com/investing/2017/04/08/credit-suisse-has-6-contrarian-stocks-that-could-fall-bigly/2/ "IBM This blue chip leader has had a solid rebound over the past year. International Business... — read more 

Does anyone live in California? What happens to your vacation? I was under the impression that "if you don't use it, you lose it", but I read that, that was against the law. I had more than 2 weeks from last year which I thought I lost and more... — read more 

This is a honest question. It's puzzling. There is a thread on this below and we had two guys let go on my project (large Fortune 100 company, ~50 GBS folks on the project). Any ideas?

Writers sentiments and frustrations with IBM ring true with me. I was given an out by IBM in 2010 after 15 years in GBS. Have consulted as an independent since and enjoyed it since. IBM GBS was a pile of crap when I was there. All the bright managers... — read more 

Don't worry, we're all being watched and tracked and everything we do is being recorded. "Products from Entelo, International Business Machines Corp. IBM, +0.01% and Workday, WDAY, -0.04% as well as Microsoft Corp.’s MSFT, +0.27% internal management... — read more 

Why are no managers or executives let go? They are the ones making the constant decisions on how the reorgs take place, change the comp plans and are doing nothing to motivate employees. These employees make more money then the sellers themselves... — read more 

Another RA thread, this time from Reddit with some more reports on areas & amounts impacted -- https://www.reddit.com/r/IBM/comments/62edgg/ibm_ra_today/

Got cut on 3/30. Cloud Sales Operations. 29 years of service, 55 years old. The worst thing is that I lost my retirement 16 years ago when they changed the retirement plan. Missed the age cutoff by 6 months - I was 39-1/2 when you had to be 40 to get... — read more 

if i were the watson family...I would sue IBM to get the family name out of this business and off these overhyped useless products. the legacy will soon be "Watson killed IBM" and so did ginni and the board

Have been on the Xcel Energy project since beginning of the year and was supposed to be on it until year end. So I was billable and making money for IBM, yet I get laid off. What sense does that make??? Also on the 90/30 plan, though I already have... — read more 

30 years at IBM, STS Division, approximately 26-28 employees - rumor was we were all going to be co-located. Didn't happen - we all got RA'd - entire dept. I cut my manager off on our phone convo after 1minute of her reading from a script. Told her... — read more 

Also in Bill Kribbs (VP) organization, got the call on Friday. 55 years old, 90/30 plan. Happy it is done. Going to do some contracting and will make more money and I will be happier than working for that dumb IBM company, I believe 5 other... — read more 

I got let go too, after 2.5 years of service, countless weekends, no bonuses or any appreciation, IBM s---s big time. What bothers me is that they waste money left and right, and they dont care but they gladly cut people off to save some $$. Last few... — read more 

IBM revamped it's sales and technical sales commission targets to be based on employee salary. That approach allowed IBM to target senior, higher earning, employees by positioning them in accounts that had zero or low history of purchase and thus... — read more 

Got the RA notice late Thursday 3/30. Digital Business Group same old 90/30 plan with 21 years of service. When did experience become a liability?? Too young to retire.

If "RA'd", you are not eligible for rehire for 5 years. Also, managers are instructed to ignore those people trying to land another position before their RA kicks in. In the history of the company, I have never heard of anyone ever finding a job... — read more 

Have you noticed that layoffs are being hidden? That's exactly why this site exists, because we all know corporations are hiding the true extent of the layoffs. The reason why is political, and surprising. We are entering a recession, a severe... — read more 

IBM is creating a lot of new terms like "talent remix" lately. One of my favorite is the "Hundred Percent Club" for sales. Anyone want to guess what percentage of quota you have to be to qualify for this honor? One hundred and twenty percent. These... — read more 

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/ibm-begins-firings-at-north-carolina-site-2017-03-31 "International Business Machines Corp. (NYSE: IBM) has confirmed that the company is laying off a 'relatively small' number of people at its Research Triangle Park... — read more 

Some of these kid's had over 7 different managers is the last 15 months. No direction whatsoever. No focus. What a waste of stockholder value. Shame on them!

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/03/31/one_third_ibm_staff_in_india_bangladesh/ Just shy of one-third of IBM's global workforce is now based in India and Bangladesh, a leaked internal blog has indicated. World+dog was aware that Big Blue has spent... — read more 

Got the RA notice Watson Customer Engagement East Coast 90/30 plan 12 years of service not close to retirement

Reality is that a lot of valuable talent just got treated poorly. It stinks and stings to know that loyalty and excellence is rewarded with a late career purging without regard for much other than a half baked plan to redirect resources. They have... — read more 

As I write this, the sales groups across the country are being massively decimated. Yet, aside from a few random blurbs on niche sites, the FB group and this site you cannot find any news about this RA. Yesterday 5 p.m. PDT, there was a single tweet... — read more 

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/03/31/ibm_bloodbath_continues/ IBM is once again laying off folks – this time swinging its axing mostly through sales teams in the US. This latest round of headcount slashing – coldly categorized internally as a... — read more 

I'm part of a 30 March IBM resource action. FT mobile, individual contributor Cloud sales operations based in US. Long-time IBMer not close to retirement.

http://www.visasquare.com/visa-greencard/report/ibm-40128.html

Got the RA notice today, was in Cloud Tech Sales in SE US... 90/30 plan.

Got a call from my manager's EA that he would call me to "catch up" tomorrow- March 31. What a waste of time that is going to be. I would rather get an email with the same content. 14 years with the company and over 50.

I've been laid off. No surprise here - I'm remote, services, part time, and (here is the tough part) a week short of 61 years old. So I will be riffed officially 9 months before I was eligible to retire. Too bad.

One of my buddies was laid off today after 23 years of Service. It looks like all USA again. Surprise? Nope. Where are the 20,000 jobs Gini that you promised in front of Trump. Is any employee going to trust IBM any more? Nope. Oh well, I have plan B... — read more 

Just got the notice of layoff today as well. IBM acquired the company I worked for and did 1 big layoff a year after the acquisition cutting us in half and now more of us are gone. We all made the company what it is but I guess that doesn't matter... — read more