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My experience working with IBM by an anonymous employee
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It is sad severnce has been so severally cut would not be a bit surprised it is 1 week or less in the future. IBM considers it employees are commodities like a laptop or iphone out with the old in with the new hopefully cheaper model. I get companies need to cut jobs but IBM management has been doing it too long, too often and for the wrong reason (to prop up a failing stock and securing upper management bonuses). Maybe its time to RA upper management and the entire board. But I am sure they would get more than one months pay if thry were.
Sold out, that pretty much sums it up
The layoffs: my line manager sits down with the many people being laid off but one stands out to me. One of the employees being laid off sits there anxiously while the line manager reads from his HR approved or written script. The moment feels so very surreal as she has worked hard like many others. The line manager reads the script as coldly as he can he can muster since in the past they have been co-workers and friendly. He gets to the part about the severance, which she is expecting several months of severance pay and the line manager explains to her that despite promises made to her she would only get a 1-month severance. Running through her head is probably family, bills, her health, and many more personal thoughts as she starts to weep. Her years of service meant nothing to IBM and the company that sold her off/out.