Thread regarding IBM layoffs

@fc you were replaced by Indians in India
AI is code for Always India

@fc that means you built a good product.
What will you build next? We can’t rest on our past glory.

Oh yeah. Yesterday I got RAed from a software product that had 9% growth last quarter and 11% YoY. Almost 30% of the employees got cut as well. Focus on higher growth software services?? Job roles replaced by AI??? Why the press does not question these obvious and gigantic lies?

@f4
No way. Even Watson is using Siri and Alexa.

Watson would be rolling in his grave right now. Way to go, IBM. You blew it. Once a great American company and now… a joke.

Wow, I don't know WHAT I'll do without all the IBM apps and things I use every day.

@a7 “ IBM is increasingly not a very patriotic company”

Follow the incentives. Do you know how many people travel from the USA to India and other places to “oversee” the teams and run meetings?
As long as we incentivize free vacations we will not solve this problem.

What’s the point of these acquisitions other than bragging rights ?

Is Hashicorp and these others going to really have an affect

Kinda ironic that IBM wants to focus on software given they don't have a fu--ing clue how to develop software that human beings actually want to use. Fu--ing dump run by fu--ing crooks.

@a8 in all my 20 years at IBM I know of no one RA'd that was hired within IBM. Nothing wrong with trying, but concentrate on external openings. Wishing you great success in finding your next opportunity.!

India Bowel Movement more employees now in INDIA than anyplace else.

I got axed today . One month to find another job within IBM

Yep, impacted today. They laid off 75% of my mostly U.S.-based team about 1.5 years ago. Then they re-staffed entirely with cheaper, younger overseas resources, trained by senior U.S. employees like me. Now, most of the senior staff — including myself — are out as of today.

To be fair, I was ready (and hoping) to go. Morale within the company is a disaster, and the leadership hypocrisy is cringeworthy. Just imagine being back in the 1800s, forced to walk the plank, surrounded by millionaire pirates singing "All Hail IBM" — and wondering why you’re not singing along as they push you closer and closer each quarter to your demise. That’s been corporate leadership in a nutshell for the past 2–3 years, and honestly, they think people buy it.

IBM stays afloat through vampiric acquisitions and lacks true insight due to its size. It manages day-to-day by reacting to industry news in knee-je-k fashion just to stay relevant in the media (remember Blockchain?). It’s reminiscent of what Steve Jobs said: IBM doesn’t know what it wants until it sees a competitor who has it. They’ve destroyed so many innovative things they created or acquired simply by abandoning them — even with solid customer bases — to chase new trends that were often unnecessary and already addressed by existing solutions.

The widespread rumor among us non-corporate folks is: IBM is where good products go to die. It doesn’t take long for them to acquire and ruin great products or services, forcing them to move on like vampires.

Lastly — and sadly — IBM is increasingly not a very patriotic company, especially under its recent leadership and overseas strategy. Maybe Trump should be looking into this and imposing tariffs on IBM. Bottom line: this kind of thing needs to be checked, but it won’t be. And it’s the deckhands and first mates who get the plank because it’s not.