If you’re not very actively looking you’re being a fool. They are going to find every conceivable way to push you out. Questioning your scope, doubting the need for headcount, pretending to not understand functions that have existed for years and are crucial - all to hit a stock price. Opps exists solely to destroy as many lives as possible. HR is just legal cover so they can pretend there’s a “peocess.” There will be devastating layoffs in September, followed by nonsense where they choose 15% people they don’t think are cool enough (because IBM is basically a mean girl club in a jr high school) to not get bonuses hoping for attrition,, followed by more debanding - hoping for attrition, followed by a five day workweek hoping for attrition, followed by another round of devastating layoffs - which probably just barely gets us to next summer. “Operations people” at IBM are subhuman filth who only care about hurting as many of you as possible. Protect yourself. Protect your children. Get out. That has to be your full time job. Just get out.
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We all know we all going to get fired.
In the meantime, let’s enjoy the free money!
That's an option.
It depends on the person, it's an individual decision, my aunt left early (55), after 3 decades with IBM. Best decision she's ever made.
Actually, if you're close (enough) to retirement and have a nice nest egg, like I did, fu-k it. Slack off, do the bare minimum, don't give a damn, start your own office supplies surplus at home. At some level you know everything at IBM is bullsh-t. And who knows, you might even get promoted.
What would it take to force unionization? I’m sorry for America, but in Europe most of my white collar colleagues in tech and other fields are unionized. This is absurd.
Does your warning include the Senior VP and VP sc-m in the F&A CIO mob who are total filth ?