Posts by DeepBlue2021

IBM insiders say CEO Arvind Krishna downplayed impact of email troubles, asked for a week to sort things out

Re: "due to a lack of resources"

So we had a nice round of redundancies, where all the highly experienced staff walked off with nice deal, then the next Qtr we find we cannot bid on anything new as no highly experienced staff available, those who stayed are stuck doing extensions or existing delivery and no one allowed to do unbillable work. Its a farce and they wonder why we cannot win new business that is competitive. The single most poorly lead company I have ever seen. So currently having to no bid deal after deal as we cannot find competent technical staff. But is ok we are on a recruitment drive, anyone want to join we have great IT...

Re: 4.2 billion emails a week?

Sounds about right, I am sent 80 emails a day of which about 80% are utter drivel on some woke initiative or another and why I should care.At the moment the broken system has reduced these to 0 as I have received nothing for 3 weeks. Senior leaders not even acknowledging the issue its a joke, I have to update iphone mail to see if I can synch and get 6 emails a day, no idea if I have missed client emails bar calling them to ask if they have sent anything. Its a total joke.

Big Blue's big email blues signal terminal decline – unless it learns to migrate itself

Re: not an IT company any more

> I always wonder what made them join (and then stay at) IBM though

They're probably living in their own insulated shell, protected from the rest of the BS because they're the geese laying the golden eggs.

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Except we are not seeing any Golden eggs, its seems lots of nice projects but nothing credibly ever makes it to market, always little projects that are not scalable or get shelved once they are proven but fail to be marketed effectively, but then IBM spends literally nothing on marketing bar a few adverts.

So the mail system is still broken, daily promises are not running into credible fixes, I have to phone customers to check if they have received my email or sent anything back, embarrassing is a word being used a lot and that's with diplomatic hat firmly on. Yet on leadership briefs its not even being mentioned, just the usual we must hit the Qtr target and this is the hardest ever, as it is every single Qtr according to the leadership. Yet we are marching blindly towards the edge off a cliff, the long term staff just plod on and no one looks up to realise what is coming. The basics are broken and the leadership at the top seem so disconnected from reality that they somehow think you can grow with a diminishing pool of staff and massive dependency on existing customers but little to no freedom to go after new clients. sad times to put it mildly and after constant praise for the last CEO who got promoted whilst delivering 11 straight Qtrs of decline.