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Racism, Ageism, and Ableism at IBM/Red Hat and Kyndryl
Posted by Roy Schestowitz on May 31, 2024
THERE is a new report (past 24 hours) that says "Big Tech Layoffs Are Hitting Diversity and Inclusion Jobs Hard" and IBM's Kyndryl is now accused of "racial, age, disability discrimination", according to The Register [2], one of the few remaining online publishers that scrutinise IBM and habitually write about Red Hat's impending layoffs.
Earlier this month we saw the report "IBM's Red Hat SUED over culling 21 white men employees as CEO vowed to punish managers who missed DEI targets" along with about 20 other bits of coverage (we mentioned this here only in passing because the press had politicised it).
No matter where you stand on politics, it's clear that IBM is imperialistic and still very racist (this goes back to the company's roots). One must be open-minded and consider the fact that PR campaigns like "inclusive language" (IBM still uses the word "master" quite a lot) are a shallow/thin smokescreen.
As we've shown here throughout the month, the former Red Hat staff who kept pushing UEFI 'secure' boot (for Microsoft) claims to be supporting women, but he's actually very sexist. One person wrote to tell me this morning: "I forgot to add that Matt's list of crimes against you two probably can be considered to contain also sexual harassment." █
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Big Tech Layoffs Are Hitting Diversity and Inclusion Jobs Hard
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Kyndryl accused of racial, age, disability discrimination • The Register
Kyndryl, the IT services firm spun out of IBM, has been accused by multiple employees within its CISO Defense security group of discrimination on the basis of age, race, and disability, in both internal complaints and formal charges filed with the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC).The Register has reviewed documents supporting allegations that include discrimination and retaliation against staff.These files describe a years-long saga of staff allegedly being axed, moved, or demoted for taking time off work for health reasons, for being from India or non-White, and for other alleged unfair reasons.It's a saga of a team experiencing an influx of workers from another company, sparking tensions over pay and performance. All of which will have to be probed and resolved by the employment commission.