On: The Fed suckered IBM into a failing cloud strategy...

[smackfu]

I know a bunch of people only hanging out because they think they'll get laid off anyways and IBM severance + unemployment isn't so bad.

[erichurkman → smackfu]

Isn't it easier to look for a job when you're not competing with 8,000 other laid off people?

[smackfu → erichurkman]

IBM is a slow trickle kind of lay-off place. So there are always lay-offs happening.

[iends → erichurkman]

Perhaps, but if you've been at IBM for 10 years, 6 months of doing nothing but collecting your pay check probably sounds really good.