There are good managers left, but they go through hell trying to do what IBM tells them without losing their soul. The terrible ones don't have that problem so they succeed and advance. To be a successful IBM manager in 2017 you have to be willing to destroy people's lives without reason, try to convince your employees of things you know are lies, smile and clap at everything the Dear Leader says, and never have an original idea. You are not allowed to tell the truth when you know it, but often you don't know it unless you figure it out for yourself. You watch ridiculous decisions made by clueless executives and then have to defend them in public. All the while, your employees constantly ask you what is going on, and you don't know any more than they do. Are we being laid off? Are we being co-located? Are we being reorganized out of existence? When the manager says he doesn't know, the employee assumes he's lying, but it is the truth. First line managers are kept in the dark about everything, and yet they are expected to handle people management. So yes, there are a lot of useless managers in the company, but there are also a lot of formerly good managers who are not allowed to be good managers any more.
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Also sounds like Intel...
Are there any good places to work left?
Sounds like North Korea under the Kim.
People, just know that this sounds like BOEING! You are NOT alone in your nightmare!
A good manager the kind who gets his wife a gig at IBM while giving others on his team an RA?
The nepotism at IBM needs to be addressed. Ginni is taking all these stances promoting LGBT yet allows nepotism to run rampant. What a POS
Sure IBM has some good managers left unlike the snake I had as my last one. Didnt even have the balls to give us the RA news.
True - at the same time, on the executive level - we never had a more weak group