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Get ready. IBM about to layoff 26% of its employees starting next week.

 
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Get ready. IBM about to layoff 26% of its employees starting next week.
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Last October, IBM (IBM) chief executive Ginni Rometty vaguely hinted the company’s self-styled makeover to analytics, cloud, mobile and security specialist could mean yet another round of layoffs, following last year's firing of 10,000 workers with another 1,700 shown the door in 2013.

But that was small potatoes compared to what might hit IBM next week amid one report the vendor is prepping to lay off what could amount to 26 percent of its global workforce. If events play out as a Forbes report by noted IBM watcher Robert X. Cringely outlines, by the end of February some 100,000 IBM workers could be gone.

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A couple of years ago the fire truck manufacturer American LaFrance installed an IBM ERP business system company wide .

It was so shitty and full of bugs the entire company fell apart before IBM could get it working properly and went into chapter 11 in the chaos that followed.
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Ashes ashes we all fall down!
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Re: Get ready. IBM about to layoff 26% of its employees starting next week.
Remember how people said the Snowden NSA spying revelations would absolutely destroy the US information business?

If you were in Germany or France or Korea, would you buy some spy program riddled with NSA back doors to be installed in your company?

I hope every yank company who took the 30 pieces of silver scores the same fate. Sucks for the workers on the street, with whom I sympathize. But as for the Wall Street fuckers who took the silver, fuck them. I hope they lose everything.
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13 weeks of pay and a year of medical plus 30 more days on the payroll... I work at a different tech company but this is pretty much the low performer severance package where I work..
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Remember how people said the Snowden NSA spying revelations would absolutely destroy the US information business?

If you were in Germany or France or Korea, would you buy some spy program riddled with NSA back doors to be installed in your company?

I hope every yank company who took the 30 pieces of silver scores the same fate. Sucks for the workers on the street, with whom I sympathize. But as for the Wall Street fuckers who took the silver, fuck them. I hope they lose everything.
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Nope.

Actually, that kind of fucked everybody.

1) If we can't examine the source, in it's entirety, we wont buy it and install to process mission critical data.

2) Vendors don't want to turn over the source because then how do they expect to be paid?

3) Everything of any consequence is now developed in-house, leading to a lot of reinventing of the wheel and sub-par performance.

4) This single revelation will hold back commercial IT innovation, progress and financial gain for a very long time. Trust is completely non existent of American IT products, China too.

Nice work!
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Re: Get ready. IBM about to layoff 26% of its employees starting next week.
A couple of years ago the fire truck manufacturer American LaFrance installed an IBM ERP business system company wide .

It was so shitty and full of bugs the entire company fell apart before IBM could get it working properly and went into chapter 11 in the chaos that followed.
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You think a fire truck manufacturer went bankrupt because of ibm's software? Lol. I'm not saying IBM is great, but this is ridiculous.
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Re: Get ready. IBM about to layoff 26% of its employees starting next week.
Remember how people said the Snowden NSA spying revelations would absolutely destroy the US information business?

If you were in Germany or France or Korea, would you buy some spy program riddled with NSA back doors to be installed in your company?

I hope every yank company who took the 30 pieces of silver scores the same fate. Sucks for the workers on the street, with whom I sympathize. But as for the Wall Street fuckers who took the silver, fuck them. I hope they lose everything.
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You already have a spy program with NSA back doors. It's called Windows 7/8. It's called 7 or 8 because there are 7 or 8 back doors.
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IBM PS/1




WHooaaa, That was a BAdazz Computer back in the Day..lol but i liked my Tandy

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Re: Get ready. IBM about to layoff 26% of its employees starting next week.
A couple of years ago the fire truck manufacturer American LaFrance installed an IBM ERP business system company wide .

It was so shitty and full of bugs the entire company fell apart before IBM could get it working properly and went into chapter 11 in the chaos that followed.
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You think a fire truck manufacturer went bankrupt because of ibm's software? Lol. I'm not saying IBM is great, but this is ridiculous.
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likely due to some other affiliation, say oshkosh for example

its how they roll
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Seems like 3-6 months of IBMers shuffling around to other talented companies waiting for employment while the big names shift gears. Employment rate shifting and it's gearing up for a September new release of technology. They're just throwing out dead talent that grew obsolete.

They will have to go to college again for the new shit.

Quantum and Holographic is the new shit.
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But... But... But....



I get it now... You have to lay off a shit ton of people, and then re-hire them, to get his numbers up.

So all these layoffs are just his plan going according to plan.

For a minute there I thought the whole place was about to dead3

Last Edited by ARCLIGHT01 on 01/25/2015 01:14 PM
1. Life - The Constructor (God)
2. Love - A System of Self Regulation (the system of God)
3. Law - The Definition of the Boundaries of Love.
4. Death - The Deconstructor (A Lifeless and Unkillable entity designed to protect Life from entities that violate law
5. Competition - (the System of Death)
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good thing we're in a recovery or this could be bad
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good thing we're in a recovery or this could be bad
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Thanks... wheres my napkin.
1. Life - The Constructor (God)
2. Love - A System of Self Regulation (the system of God)
3. Law - The Definition of the Boundaries of Love.
4. Death - The Deconstructor (A Lifeless and Unkillable entity designed to protect Life from entities that violate law
5. Competition - (the System of Death)
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Re: Get ready. IBM about to layoff 26% of its employees starting next week.
ScienceLogic Displaces Tools from Three of the “Big Four” Frameworks, Saves $200K Per Year..

The Results
Saves $200K per year in maintenance costs alone by displacing multiple tools from IBM Tivoli/Netcool, BMC, and CA eHealth
New ScienceLogic install paid for itself out of operating budget with money to spare
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[link to www.sciencelogic.com]

connected to ScienceLogic Don Pyle COO mansion that just burned to the ground?

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Ouch!
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Re: Get ready. IBM about to layoff 26% of its employees starting next week.
Not long before everything collapses.
Remember the 7 year cycle is coming to an end.

There's going to be a global crisis no matter what.
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Re: Get ready. IBM about to layoff 26% of its employees starting next week.
Are they gonna outsource Jobs???
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That's bad news for IBM employees, but why do we need to get ready?
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will layoffs be mainly in the u.s.
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Re: Get ready. IBM about to layoff 26% of its employees starting next week.
IBM hasn't been relevant in years, Microsoft has completely destroyed them.
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Re: Get ready. IBM about to layoff 26% of its employees starting next week.
A couple of years ago the fire truck manufacturer American LaFrance installed an IBM ERP business system company wide .

It was so shitty and full of bugs the entire company fell apart before IBM could get it working properly and went into chapter 11 in the chaos that followed.
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computers are supposed to make things work better not worse.

the world is going back to typewriters.

you know what happened was, when you had windows 3.1, they discovered there were lowly house servants who were putting in the machine code in the DOS debug programs and it disgusted them so much they made the Windows 95 registry as complicated as it could reasonable be and still function, so as to spite the uppity masses with their infernal tinkering.

just kidding of course if every dipshit 12 year old could hack it it's not much use.
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Steve Jobs right again.
Pickle Suprise!
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[link to thevarguy.com]

Last October, IBM (IBM) chief executive Ginni Rometty vaguely hinted the company’s self-styled makeover to analytics, cloud, mobile and security specialist could mean yet another round of layoffs, following last year's firing of 10,000 workers with another 1,700 shown the door in 2013.

But that was small potatoes compared to what might hit IBM next week amid one report the vendor is prepping to lay off what could amount to 26 percent of its global workforce. If events play out as a Forbes report by noted IBM watcher Robert X. Cringely outlines, by the end of February some 100,000 IBM workers could be gone.

[link to thevarguy.com]
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As I read between the lines...

IBM

Intercontinental Ballistic Missile...

26% totality rate is approximately 1/3...

Hm
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Re: Get ready. IBM about to layoff 26% of its employees starting next week.
Several years ago I was "contractor consultant" to IBM (that means I worked for a "temp agency" and was assigned to IBM but was never an employee. Some people there told me the company was actively getting rid of American employees.
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Well, there goes hudson valley New York. Shesh.
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They must have built enough AI robots to replace all those workers
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They bought out my ex company and now sales have tanked in the market, they utterly destroyed the market for that software. They also use tricks like not allowing their knowledge base to be searched, they deleted all documentation, all because they want their clients to depend on their crappy consultants. Am glad it backfired, hope they disappear forever.
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Not long before everything collapses.
Remember the 7 year cycle is coming to an end.

There's going to be a global crisis no matter what.
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I recognize the significance of 2008 and 2001, but what happened in 1994?
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Not long before everything collapses.
Remember the 7 year cycle is coming to an end.

There's going to be a global crisis no matter what.
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I recognize the significance of 2008 and 2001, but what happened in 1994?
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1994 Bond Crash

And so on and on.

This year except dollar wipeout if things go well.
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Re: Get ready. IBM about to layoff 26% of its employees starting next week.
A couple of years ago the fire truck manufacturer American LaFrance installed an IBM ERP business system company wide .

It was so shitty and full of bugs the entire company fell apart before IBM could get it working properly and went into chapter 11 in the chaos that followed.
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You think a fire truck manufacturer went bankrupt because of ibm's software? Lol. I'm not saying IBM is great, but this is ridiculous.
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If they weren't bright enough to install it and integrate into the business properly then I think it would be possible, especially if your entire manufacturing process (supply chain, factors, etc) are dependent on this software.

Throw in bad software, a poor implementation, and possibly greedy contractors and the outcome could be a disaster.





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