Thread regarding IBM layoffs

IBM work politics

Found this interesting Reddit thread for yesterday.

https://www.reddit.com/r/IBM/comments/1qot69r/workplace_politics/

Gave me much relief I am not the only one feeling and experiencing this at IBM. I attend the Albany Research center in New York and the location is entirely run on politics. Nepotism, cronyism and favoritism rule the site. It’s run by a small group that has been in charge since the beginning. Merit and hard work and accomplishments mean little here what matters most is if you are one the favorites. It seems the locations intended is for personal gain of small group and their acolytes and not for semiconductors.


by
| 1151 views | | 6 replies (last January 29) | Reply
Post ID: @OP+1kg2v8v2v

6 replies (most recent on top)

I am sorry @OP but yes Albany is notorious for this for sometime now. There isn’t much you can do about it. My advice is find another role with another company onsite

by
| | Reply
Post ID: @cn+1kg2v8v2v

@b6 what new people? They aren’t hiring much at all at my site, just summer interns . There are enough people to manage them as people are losing their direct reports

by
| | Reply
Post ID: @b9+1kg2v8v2v

@aw - Who is going to train the new hires when so many of us don't even know if we are going to be around - I feel sorry for all these young interns who have been proudly announcing having being offered the internship at IBM. Soon they would realize all that effort they put in to land the job is going to get them nowhere and one day they would succumb to RA.

by
| | Reply
Post ID: @b6+1kg2v8v2v

IBM has been a sh-t company for the past 10+ years. It is definitely not a place for a new hire or someone out of college to be and thrive. Look somewhere else.

by
| | Reply
Post ID: @aw+1kg2v8v2v

Early in my career, I learned, Managers are useless pieces of sh1t. How can a stup1d, technically re--rded manager understand and rate my work ?
My most recent manager is a useless liberal art graduate, he has never coded a line or taken a computer architecture class. How can such an id1ot rate any work or understand it ?
Done with the rant.
With rolling layoffs, helping others is like shooting yourself in the foot.

by
| | Reply
Post ID: @am+1kg2v8v2v

Albany - Is this where the research happens on which company to acquire next to continue the Ponzi scheme ?

by
| | Reply
Post ID: @aa+1kg2v8v2v

Post a reply

: