[imbusy111]

Not sure why Chris felt so much anxiety about the acquisition. Red Hat was already a huge company and things change. After all, it is just a corporate job and he can find another one, especially in this climate.

I can only understand his anxiety if he is an exec high up the chain and likely will be trimmed and his multi-million dollar salary is affected, and he has a huge mortgage, and lots of bills to pay and so on. Otherwise, life just goes on.

[cmsj]

Hi, Red Hatter here. Red Hat is not just a corporate job for many/most of us. I'm here because the culture is fantastic and the deep understanding of remote working is vital to me.

[jldugger]

Redhat was acquired for roughly double the market capitalization. IBM presumably is going to do something with the org chart to make good on that bet.

> I can only understand his anxiety if he is an exec high up the chain and likely will be trimmed and his multi-million dollar salary is affected

IBM's got a long history of layoffs over the past decade. The double edged sword of working remote is you have fewer opportunities in a job crisis like this. That said, line staff's phones and inboxes are probably blowing up with recruiters.

[anyfoo]

That implies that all corporate jobs (and corporations) are the same, which, while a popular theme on Hacker News, is not at all true in my experience.

[x0x0]

Getting a new dev job, particularly for a remote Dev who is handicapped and uses some serious drugs to treat pain, is not as easy as you may think. Combine that with wanting to work in open source and Chris may value the current state of Redhat quite a lot.

[saghm]

> I can only understand his anxiety if he is an exec high up the chain and likely will be trimmed and his multi-million dollar salary is affected, and he has a huge mortgage, and lots of bills to pay and so on. Otherwise, life just goes on.

There are other sources of anxiety besides financial

[tyingq]

I'm sure there's more than one reason, but he seems to indicate he works from home.

IBM apparently changed their policy on that in 2017.

[bonzini]

https://www.quora.com/Does-IBM-allow-all-of-its-employees-to...

> In the USA there was an edict last year for staff to work from specific offices based [on] their role