https://stlawyers.ca/blog-news/ibm-job-cuts-november-2025/
Not a single news site speaks about this week's IBM layoffs
https://techrights.org/n/2025/11/04/Corporate_Media_That_Fails_to_Report_Cocaine_at_EPO_is_Totally_.shtml
I thought we were done with RAs for the year
Talk about being a naive id--t.
Many People Have Said That They "Leave" IBM in Recent Days (Ahead of Mass Layoffs)
http://techrights.org/n/2025/11/04/Many_People_Have_Said_That_They_Leave_IBM_in_Recent_Days_Ahead_.shtml
IBM's CEO Already Has the Excuse for the Latest Wave of Mass Layoffs
https://techrights.org/n/2025/11/04/IBM_s_CEO_Already_Has_the_Excuse_for_the_Latest_Wave_of_Mass_La.shtml
DNS downing clouds is boring: IBM Cloud is experiencing a quantum computer outage
https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/30/ibm_cloud_experiencing_quantum_computer/ Remember what CEO AK said, quantum is the next "AI"... whatever that means!
Is it happening?
Just got a note to meet up with my manager tomorrow. Is the axe about to drop…. Anyone else get impromptu meetings set up for tomorrow? In cloud.
Pending layoffs?
Hi, I'm a reporter for The Register. I've heard from a source about a round of layoffs expected this week. If anyone can confirm this confidentially, please feel free to get in touch: tclaburn (at) theregister (dot) com Signal: ThomasClaburn.49
IBM Goodwill increased by ove 8 billion dollars this year, according to IBM
https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/IBM/ibm/goodwill-intangible-assets-total
2025’s Biggest U.S. Layoffs: 10 Companies Shaking Up the Workforce
https://americanbazaaronline.com/2025/10/31/2025s-biggest-u-s-layoffs-469488/ IBM – Approximately 3,900 roles IBM is eliminating positions in legacy IT services to invest more heavily in AI and hybrid cloud initiatives. While many of these cuts... — read more
Amazon cut 30K jobs
Amazon to cut about 30,000 corporate jobs beginning this week
Absolutely fascinating history lesson of IBM's pension heist
I was there starting in the early 80s. I always said if we had gone out on strike for a week or month etc IBM and Gerstner would not have done this pension heist. But they did again and again and as the writer states "...not a peep from IBM... — read more
IBM should follow Target
Target cuts 1,800 corporate jobs https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/23/target-layoffs-corporate-jobs-sales-slump.html
They call old stuff "AI"; smokescreen for shareholders
https://www.crn.com/news/ai/2025/ibm-9-5-billion-ai-book-of-business-drives-q3-growth-across-company-s-software-hardware-and-consulting-segments
It's all buzzwords now (re-classifying old things as "new" and thus "growing"
"booming demand for cloud services, as artificial intelligence adoption rises." https://m.economictimes.com/tech/technology/ibms-slowing-cloud-growth-eclipses-upbeat-third-quarter-results/amp_articleshow/124751571.cms
IBM stock drops to $274 - 5% - 12 points after Q325 earnings
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/22/ibm-q3-2025-earnings-report.html Love how AK brags every qtr about the "huge and growing AI and hybrid cloud backlog". Yeah right! ISC forecasts by sales is TOTAL BS!!!!! Just put AI or cloud in the product title... — read more
Infantile misuse of buzzwords ("AI Revolution") for stock market rally based on lies
https://stocktwits.com/news-articles/markets/equity/ibm-stock-idynamic-name-to-own-in-ai-revolution-says-analyst/ch6CYdnR3Yd
IBM moves most workers out of RTP as park set for dramatic remake
https://www.bizjournals.com/triangle/news/2025/10/20/ibm-rtp-campus-vacates-office-space-development.html Around the corner from Red Hat, too.
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“ Bjarne Is Gone. Sue is Incompetent! “ post is no more. I guess we can no longer point out that the H1B replacements that are forced down our throats cannot do technical work. I am sorry but tech writer Sue could not write anything in any computer... — read more
IBM's "whisper number" for Q325 according to AI. Reports 10-22-25.
IBM's "whisper number" for Q3 2025, or the consensus estimate, is approximately $16.09 billion in revenue and $2.43 per share in earnings. Some analysts anticipate earnings could be slightly higher, at around $2.45 per share, driven by AI and hybrid... — read more
Analyst Says IBM (IBM) a Buzzword and Buzzword and Buzzword
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/topstocks/analyst-says-ibm-ibm-a-quiet-way-to-play-ai-quantum/ar-AA1OrP0I IBM is a joke, the news online is a joke, the "IT" industry is becoming a joke
How IBM self destructed in 9 minute video
For those of us who fondly recall working for the most respected company on the planet in the 70s and 80s I think this sad video speaks for itself. This is the destruction of IBM Endicott campus which was a crown jewel of IBM founder and CEO Thomas... — read more
Quick Q: Has IBM closed the Coppell Office in Dallas (North)
There were rumors earlier this year but I am unsure... Please let me know.
Moving leadership to India?
https://www.reddit.com/r/IBM/comments/1o4xtrr/managers_are_forced_to_lay_off_good_people/ "I’ve been in meetings with very senior leaders and they are hunting through the ranks of B9-10 and D to find folks to let go to make room for higher bands in... — read more
"IBM’s CEO is all about cutting out the things IBM used to be good at in favor pumping up the stock price."
"IBM’s CEO is all about cutting out the things IBM used to be good at in favor pumping up the stock price. It’s a matter of time until he does the same to Red... — read more
2025 World’s Best Employers | Forbes.com
IBM landing at #8 is such a joke. https://www.forbes.com/lists/worlds-best-employers/
Stuck in endless meetings
I’ve lost count of how many meetings end right where they started. So much talking, no real direction, and when someone actually offers something useful, it gets dismissed. Why is it that the people running things can’t tell the difference between... — read more
Mainframe is in trouble
Commonwealth Bank, Australia's largest bank and in fact the largest company, has successfully migrated their core banking system off the mainframe onto SAP S/4 Hana on an AWS cloud system. They expect to retire their mainframe in 18 months, and it's... — read more
Boosting the next hype wave (fake valuation) for "daddy IBM"
https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2025/10/08/quantum-computing-101-developers
IBM RETIREE'S
IBM does offer great Medicare advantage plans. When you make it here the grass is greener.
IBM stock hits all time high $300.79 - is watsonx dead and IBM going all in on Anthropic?
Well it is that time of year and month etc with IBM Q3 earnings up 10/22. Stock hits all time high and then.....drop 15-25 points after 10/22? https://www.investors.com/news/technology/ibm-stock-breakout-anthropic-ai-partnership/
Ridiculous Work Life Balance article from VC at IBM
Alvind's Pipmunks were trying to say that their featured VC id--t has a work life balance. Oh, really... — read more
Quantumspam from IBM ahead of the next wave of RAs
https://www.crn.com/news/security/2025/ibm-s-suja-viswesan-on-the-future-of-qradar-siem-and-the-post-quantum-security-journey Very high buzzword density, "AI" 9 times.
Yet more bad news for Power
https://newsroom.ibm.com/2025-10-01-ibm-and-amd-collaborate-with-zyphra-on-next-generation-ai-infrastructure
"So far in 2025, IBM has laid off around 9 000 workers."
https://www.itweb.co.za/article/sa-cannot-shrug-off-ongoing-job-losses-in-global-tech-industry/KzQenqjyz3zMZd2r Probably a lot more. They just rely on slopfarms that talk about one particular wave while ignoring all other data points.
The New Rules of Workplace Loyalty
Applies to IBM too, so worth reading (Business Insider article): https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/the-new-rules-of-workplace-loyalty/ar-AA1Nv8Uo Comments from readers reflect what we have been discussing here.
US Firms To Consider Shifting Work To East (and South)
This is what they hope / think / expect may happen - extreme (they use that word, yes) offshoring and near-shoring (to the East and to the South, respectively): "Such a rush could lead to "extreme offshoring" in some cases, said Ramkumar... — read more
Mainframe RA
Do any of the mainframe team get hit when layoffs occur?
RE: OCT RA
Anyone know what days this might be coming up?