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IBM's large cost cutting actions have affected skills development and travel, it's getting worse every quarter
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Ton of confusion over moving folks to remote work at home and now stressing co-location (180 turn)
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Employees are being pushed to be working all the time - no work life balance - cannot educate, cannot socialize, it's work work work
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Many are living in a state of fear from the next RA
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Resource Actions are random, haphazard, no rhyme or reason, everyone is in danger = ANXIETY
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@1ced - easier said than done
Rather than rant, find a new job and move on with your dignity and sanity intact
what happened to "proud IBMer" lol
Take everything you can from IBM and run.
Hello there, original poster. Many years ago IBM was a wonderful workplace to spend your career. I once believed in IBM and its core values but the company has really lost its way.
It's time to move on from IBM and find another job. I can honestly say my final day at Big Blue was the happiest day on the job because it was becoming a toxic environment. By the time I left the company, profits were declining, morale was abysmal and everyone was fretting about job security. I drank the Kool-Aid and believed in IBM when I joined the company but times have changed. It's time to leave IBM and begin the next stage of your career.
Rather than rant, find a new job and move on with your dignity and sanity intact. Doing this in a planned way on your terms is infinitely easier than suddenly being thrust onto the job market, in a traumatised state and with only a few weeks to find your next employer and save your livelihood. Yes, it's giving them what they want but remaining in such a toxic, "every man for himself" work environment will make you physically and mentally ill; and it's YOU that counts. Stop being "surprised" and "dismayed" at IBM's ever increasing degree of unethical behaviour. They have crossed so many lines of basic decency and displaced "respect for the individual" with "contempt for the over 50s" (unless you're an exec) as a guiding principle and it will only get worse as you recurringly absorb the work of those who are suddenly jettisoned. It is no longer the company it was and the stock price, the one aspect they've obsessively engineered and manipulated over the latter years, reflects their declining respect for their employees and will ultimately be their karma.
It will take time to decompress.
I’m planning my exit now, no incentive to stick around, doing it on my terms, they won’t get any more than a 2 week notice.
Working hard will not get you promotion or raise. Working hard will not protect you from future RA. So why work hard?
Divestitures and layoffs are utterly demoralizing! Not a good place to work at right now. After 11 months I decided to move on.