Another quarter's results are lacking. Less revenue less profit. How to respond? More layoffs no doubt. Management geniuses. We can rely on their steadfast leadership! Brightside...minimum wage catching up from behind fast. Getting so a guy pushing shopping carts out of the Walmart park lot earns half of an IBM salary.
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@wxy - you are the type of dope who still shows up at town halls
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"Can't wait till they lay people like you off. You are the very definition of why IBM has such cynical, low performing employees who give up before trying."
I worked at IBM for 36 years. That qualifies as more than trying. I succeeded. Retired by my own choice in disgust. I'm not cynical at all nor was I a low performer. Simply found myself unwilling to work for an unworthy master. May you find enough personal pride and fortitude to do the same one day, though I suspect not.
it is not so odd that IBM does not grow: they fired all the SME's, ditched many of the client execs, products that bleeding from underinvestment, ridiculous rate cards, no money for marketing, no money for opportunity identification, no money to keep the good people in, AWS, MSFT everywhere. What do you expect? Conglomerate age is over: specialists are more agile, more focussed, TCO is lower, etc. It is time to take big, big decisions: Board wake up.
@wxy - Ditto. Exec Management - CEO and entire leadership team - is THE problem. That's why they don't break out numbers of the failed businesses that they created---they are hiding behind legacy businesses, and pilfering profits from those business to line their bonus payous.
@wxy - I don't understand your anger ... What's wrong with the original post? They speak the truth.
Can't wait till they lay people like you off. You are the very definition of why IBM has such cynical, low performing employees who give up before trying.