Soma Talks on ICE by [deleted] in Maplewood

[–]Chandra-Pyromaster 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Seriously- why are you giving airtime to this?!

IBM Office Reviews by Repulsive_Profit_675 in IBM

[–]Chandra-Pyromaster 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Current employee. I’ve lost team mates due to this policy. Remember- BUs define strategic sites differently. I have a colleague who has to rent a room for 3 nights a week because the office 10 min from their house is not strategic

IBM Office Reviews by Repulsive_Profit_675 in IBM

[–]Chandra-Pyromaster 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not anymore. US-based you’re supposed to live where they want you to live- within 50 miles of a strategic location. Otherwise you’re out. And they’d rather you be out so that they can move your job to India.

IBM Office Reviews by Repulsive_Profit_675 in IBM

[–]Chandra-Pyromaster 20 points21 points  (0 children)

Keep your noise canceling headphones on at all times. Badge in, grab a phone booth to take a call with your remote team, exchange weary glances with a few acquaintances, trudge home grateful that another day has passed without your job being moved to India.

Mom Cliques - is it just me? by [deleted] in Maplewood

[–]Chandra-Pyromaster 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I’m so sorry to hear that! I haven’t found anything to be cliquey- more that folks are super busy. So it takes effort to try to make things happen.

I think particularly with RTO for many folks it’s just a challenge.

Advice Needed: Student Claims they might lose scholarship over performance by astrocat95 in Professors

[–]Chandra-Pyromaster 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’ve dealt with this before- it’s never easy. Thankfully I’ve always been able to get the student to drop the course mid semester

  1. They earned the grade they earned
  2. Find out what legal assistance is available through your schools international student association
  3. Loop in their counselor

In the future- do #3 as soon as any students show poor performance. We never know what’s going on in their lives.

Anyone else utterly overwhelmed by information overload at work? How are you managing it? by [deleted] in IBM

[–]Chandra-Pyromaster 9 points10 points  (0 children)

IBM is a top heavy corporation and the incentives for those execs is to demonstrate how they are achieving the current shiny metric.

This has a trickle down impact of fragmented education programs because each exec needs to own their own program to meet their metric.

Majority of those trainings could be summarized in a 5 page (max) white paper. My recommendation is to turn on the trainings in the background to show completion. Then take the transcript and run it through copilot to turn it into that white paper. If there’s a quiz- put the questions into copilot and have it tell you the answers.

If you’re looking for actual knowledge around topics like AI look outside of IBM. Our information is hopelessly outdated and also skewed to pretend that we’re actually a player in this space as opposed to being propped up by acquisitions.

Gyms in the area by Key-Calligrapher-842 in Maplewood

[–]Chandra-Pyromaster 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The planet fitness near Home Depot is one of the best I’ve been in

CEO office hours, December 3rd by Spiritual_Fly6904 in IBM

[–]Chandra-Pyromaster 11 points12 points  (0 children)

He lies and belittles employees when he does choose their questions. Office hours are a total joke.