IBM Is Already Gutting Red Hat and Firing Employees Without Warning

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Post by URfejk » Wed, Aug 05, 2020, 6:35 PM UTC

IBM Is Already Gutting Red Hat and Firing Employees Without Warning
techrights.org

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Post by animalgonzales » Wed, Aug 05, 2020, 7:02 PM UTC

not just IBM, but the link to the microsoft layoffs is kind of mind blowing: http://techrights.org/2020/08/02/microsoft-layoffs-secrecy/

>“Microsoft rarely, if ever, allows anyone working there to reach 55 and have their pension become vested.”

>“Microsoft was twice as likely to lay you off if you were over 40.”

>“Cortana is an analytics and telemetry app that data mines people while pretending to be a digital assistant,”

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Post by catsarebetter » Wed, Aug 05, 2020, 7:06 PM UTC

Didn't they just acquire them last year? Is it b/c they're trying to cut costs or did they want to kill the company from the start?

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Post by cyb_ » Wed, Aug 05, 2020, 7:08 PM UTC

"Error establishing a database connection"

I looks like the site may have been hugged to death. Anyone have a mirror?

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Post by gesticulator » Wed, Aug 05, 2020, 7:08 PM UTC

animalgonzales wrote: post #2

not just IBM, but the link to the microsoft layoffs is kind of mind blowing: http://techrights.org/2020/08/02/microsoft-layoffs-secrecy/ >“Microsoft rarely, if ever, allows anyone working there to reach 55 and have their pension become vested.” >“Microsoft was twice as likely to lay you off if you were over 40.” >“Cortana is an analytics and telemetry app that data mines people while pretending to be a digital assist…

What pension? I don’t think that’s a common US benefit. https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/usbenefits

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Post by hddherman » Wed, Aug 05, 2020, 7:09 PM UTC

I guess that this is an example where corporate sponsorship of open source projects is both a blessing and a curse: it's fantastic while the corporation is doing great, and can get real bad real fast when priorities (or owners) change.

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Post by zxcvbn4038 » Wed, Aug 05, 2020, 7:09 PM UTC

Unless you are in research and have a significant portfolio this is what you can expect from IBM. They are notorious for letting people go under dubious circumstances or telling people to relocate to a third world country and work for local wages. I worked for them on three different occasions in three different parts of the countries and it was always a really toxic environment and it didn't end well for everyone I've known from there.