I'm hearing that RedHat staff - some hired by RH, some by IBM - have been forced to take pay cuts and had commissions reduced. Anyone impacted? simon.sharwood@siptub.com for story on theregister.com if interested. Or just post here.

Posting requirements for positions that are impossible to fill: looking good IBM, looking real good. . . https://www.theregister.com/2020/07/13/ibm_kubernetes_experience_job_ad/

An 11-year-old Pentagon case against International Business Machines Corp. ended quietly in October when it agreed to pay the government $900,000 to settle claims involving hacking attacks on the National Defense University that began in... — read more 

2| Data Scientist at IBM Location: Anywhere in India Responsibilities: As a data scientist, your role will involve running workshops to define the problem statement, identifying the data that is required, cleaning up the data... — read more 

Yet another acquisition shortly after a massive RA? And in the AI space no less? Wasn't AI one of the areas that was decimated in the last RA? Apparently this skill didn't exist or couldn't be cultivated in Big Blew. ... — read more 

Deutche Bank is one of IBM's key financial industry customers. Things are not looking good for big cloud wins for IBM. And now this account will probably be in steady revenue decline. If IBM is to have any success with the bigger Cloud... — read more 

Anybody else thinks that the only reason there isn't a mass exodus of people from IBM right now is the state of the economy? So many people are fed up with everything that's been going on in the past several years and have now been pushed over the... — read more 

I would expect at the end of this month with similar terms as previous. Notified end of month and out by beginning of September. I say that because of the sales incentive they put out for Q2 had a stipulation "must be employed in September"

[Couldn't quote both articles in their entirety, as it exceeded the 9000 char limit on posts]. Not a finance guy (but any finance guys out there please feel free to explain) so unsure about all of the implications with these moves by the Fed, but... — read more 

IBM 2Q 2020 Earnings Announcement 20 Jul 2020 Huge miss on both EPS and revenue. Furloughs and another RA to follow. https://www.ibm.com/investor/events/

So given Big Blew is providing this service to other companies so that they can tally-up black marks against their employees, undoubtedly one has to believe that they are also doing the same against their own employees for yet another criteria in... — read more 

For all of those IBMERS who got RA please join the Slack Workspace Ibmfriends2020. It is an amazing workspace where we help each other, give each other support exchange job postings etc. Highly recommended. Good luck.

It's official – https://www.kcrg.com/2020/07/01/ibm-leaving-dubuque-moving-jobs-to-columbia-missouri/

Any news about IBM Strategy? They are an expensive, elite group from McKinsey, Accenture, Booz etc strategy companies. Their consultants are big-ego rejects from those companies. Were they impacted in the cuts?

IBM is now fully embarked on a desperate mission to cost cut itself to success. Since it cannot grow revenue due to too many declining legacy businesses, the COVID-19 economic crisis, and difficulties competing in the emerging cloud business, IBM... — read more 

just got word a new round of RAs being reported today. looks like the notice is right on time for next quarter

He was motivated, he said, by “deep unhappiness working for the company.” https://westfaironline.com/126041/ibm-sues-to-stop-executive-from-working-for-microsoft/

This is a question for true oldtimers. I know a couple of people who retired from IBM about a decade ago and they don't believe me when I tell them how toxic this place is nowadays and how awful the work environment is. Makes me wonder, did things... — read more 

Asking from a purely financial point of view - medical, benefits, severance, etc. Retirement window is 2021. Sounds like the package gets you severance and lower medical for a period of time vs just retiring. Unless I’m missing something. TIA

Note to employees loving their WFH set-up: Your jobs may be outsourced to remote workers in other... — read more 

IBM paid approximately $2.6 million to $3.0 million per Red Hat employee (depending on when you count heads - offering date or closing date). When IBM paid $35.1 billion for the corporation it added $34.1 billion in "intangible assets." This Red Hat... — read more 

Google, Amazon, Apple, Facebook and IBM were among the top ten recipients of fresh H-1B visas in the 2019 fiscal, according to data from US Citizenship & Immigration Services. Let's see if Big Blew is still somehow able to remain in the Top 10... — read more 

IBM, he explained, is highly centralized, and even though he was a senior executive he was not empowered to make basic managerial decisions without corporate approvals. “I attempted to change the highly centralized corporate culture at... — read more 

Well golly gee, I wonder why there'd be job anxiety?? By: Angus Loten June 24, 2020 https://www.wsj.com/articles/job-anxiety-spills-into-tech-sector-11593038017 Nearly half of the technology workers at companies world-wide are worried about... — read more 

separation payment deposited to my bank account but did not receive payment statement . Anyone know how to get it

Of course they're in no rush to bring folks back to the office: it's much easier to close, vacate, and sell-off sites and RA employees when people aren't assembled... — read more 

Anyone have firm confirmed information that the rumored 3rd qtr USA RA will actually happen? If so would the notification date be no later than August 28th?

Anyone had their layoff proposal retracted?

More federal litigation IBM is embroiled in. https://www.marketscreener.com/INTERNATIONAL-BUSINESS-MA-4828/news/International-Business-Machines-Whistleblower-Claims-IBM-Defrauded-IRS-In-Software-Purchase-Arisin-30810937/

IBM is starting to look like a bumbling id–t in cloud services. They look like they are a new company that just got started in the business and doesn't totally get it yet. ... — read more 

Has anyone seen the latest video on recruitment from Rob Tabasco Thomas? The thing was about recruiting and maintaining talent at IBM. The video was delivered just on June 22nd, 2020. A bit ironic!!! There's a copy somewhere of the commentaries... — read more 

IBM does not need fresh leadership, they need leadership! As was said leaders inspire, willing to dig down and see that the troops are doing/thinking. When Ginny visited sites the local leadership hand pick who they wanted to interact with her. They... — read more 

Everyone I work with in IBM Canada is getting the dreaded meeting today. Some have already had them. They're scheduled for 30 minutes, but the script reading only takes 4. Not surprising as they devastated IBM US last month. Everything goes to... — read more 

Ok, depending on where you are, the notice period is different. But regardless, what do you guys do after you know you will be laid off? Do you continue to work hard and bring up your innovative ideas or do you lay back and take care of your things... — read more 

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https://seekingalpha.com/article/4355058-ibm-underwhelming-turnaround-persists-and-gets-worse

Here is the last paragraph. Looks like corporate America is buying into the preserve the legacy strategy IBM bought the right thing,” she said, referring to the Red Hat purchase. The unit’s area of expertise, hybrid cloud, is critical, as... — read more 

Retaining H1Bs while laying off American citizens is prosecutable visa fraud. Report visa H1B fraud here: https://www.uscis.gov/report-fraud/uscis-tip-form