They happened once in a while and for the rest of the time we were able to focus on our work properly. Can we ever go back to that? Or is that behind us for good?
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The occasional RA is long gone. When we were outsourced to IBM from in house positions when Sam was CEO we learned real quick RA every quarter if not more
@c0 :
Watson is traditionally an English and Scottish surname, meaning "son of Walter"
source: https://www.findmypast.co.uk/surname/watson
Bob, son of Walter, is now christened as Bob Watson. Have no expectations. Amen!
@ax evidence is in the HR files at IBM, have you looked at them, or even have access to that information ? probably not as you most certainly work as a janitor whose job is to happily clean the stinking sh-t of his masters and not complain so that you keep a steady income stream of your minimum wage. what is it that they are paying you to spread the lies here, like $ 17.5 / hr ?
You're presenting an allegation as a fact. If IBM is truly firing 15% of its workforce every year through fabricated performance ratings solely to avoid severance, where is the evidence? IBM has gone through workforce reductions, like virtually every large technology company at various points, but there's a difference between criticizing management decisions and assuming every poor performance rating is part of a grand conspiracy.
Also, shareholders being paid and executives receiving compensation isn't evidence of wrongdoing. Public companies exist to create value for shareholders. The real question is whether leadership is making the right long-term decisions for the business. That's a debate worth having. Simply assuming every layoff victim was secretly targeted to enrich executives skips over a lot of facts.
Reasonable people can disagree with Arvinds strategy, but "everyone I don't like is either corrupt or incompetent" isn't much of an argument.
@am you are right running a company with hundreds of thousands of employees requires making a brutal decision to constantly get rid of 15% of them by marking them as low performers and then firing them with PIP so that no payout is given as severance - that way shareholders can continue to be paid and executives can get the bonuses - consequences for everybody involved indeed.
You can disagree with Arvinds decisions. You can argue some layoffs were unnecessary. That's a fair debate. But responding with insults instead of arguments doesn't change the fact that running a global company requires making decisions that affect hundreds of thousands of employees, customers, and shareholders. Those decisions carry consequences for everyone involved, whether you like the executives or not.
@aj oh my, i will take a pay cut of $1 / day if it helps relieve the pain that alvind has inflected on himself by setting an ambitious target of $100 million bonus - should be enough to buy generic Ibuprofen off the shelf
It will never return to the olden days. Fear is seen as a powerful motivator and the blowtorch under our collective butts helps keep us from getting complacent.
For better or worse, this is the new normal.
None will happen in 2026! Arvind says!
No, you are not going back. There is no actual work to focus on and Bob has taken over the menial repetitive work from Watson. RAs are still occasional as PIP has become the de facto tool used by IBM to get rid of masses.