I understand that sometimes business need to layoff people, but the way IBM doing this is just not decent.
It is like when you dine out at a restaurant, you are not legally required to tip, but if the waiter/waitress serve you well and you tip him/her 5%, you are not a decent person.
When a bunch of employees in my department get RAed, it was just about 4 years and 10 months after IBM acquired our old company. At that time, the policy was if you work for IBM for less than 5 years, you got 1 months of severance pay, if you work for IBM longer than 5 years, you got 3 months of severance pay.
I think IBM intentionally RAed us just short of 5 years so it could save some money. They also did not count the time we worked at the company it acquired.
So that showed CEO (Ginni at that time) did not treat its employees decently.
Bumped from @2yqc+1a6VhVAT, he/she hit the nail on the head.