Finally!!!
If you look up IBM and age discrimination, there are hundreds of links now on different websites that cite the original investigative article that uncovered (as much as you can uncover something that is known to pretty much everybody) what IBM has been doing to its oldest and most loyal employees.
Anybody else getting hopeful that something might come out of this after all?
already Indian IT services replicate IBM model to layoff 150000 older IT workers above age 40
It’s too late ! I will be dead in 10 to 20 years. Maybe sooner with all the stress that IBM has created and supported to make us retire early or go to another company. Mr .Watson is rolling in his grave. Like many companies, upper management miss managed and did not care about the workers.
That's not true, @1lyd! A class action lawsuit will form and sue IBM for billions and in 10 or 20 years for maybe $500m if we're lucky and all will be okay because they saved billions laying off older workers. This is about how long the employee class action lawsuit against Cigna over changes to their pension plan. It took 15 years but the eventually settled for $189m. http://www.courant.com/business/connecticut-insurance/hc-cigna-pension-lawsuit-20160216-story.html
Everyone is all excited that "something will actually come out of this". FORGET IT! The only new thing here is that someone wrote down what everyone already knew.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ginni_Rometty
Wikipedia says 60.
I say it's time for her to get a taste of her own medicine.
How old is Virginia? She looks to be about 68 years old herself. Time to show her the door.
@xbn You're forgetting option 3: Ginni finally steps down and a competent CEO turns things around. But that assumes that the board will put a competent CEO in in the first place, which they won't.
Yes ! Finally. We (over 50) all knew what IBM was up too. And to think, all the diversity training we got.... what a joke. What comes around goes around.
No. Only two good things could happen:
The government could wake up and launch a massive investigation into IBM. Never going to happen.
Ginni could grow a conscience and turn things around. Never going to happen without a real threat of #1.