Voice of IBMers (part 2): Rage against the Machine — No Trust for IBM Watson Marketing Hype, Mr. Death Panel,
(2) the selection of people with requisite integrity and character for its Board, and
(3) the accurate and transparent reporting of the Company’s business and financial results in its regulatory filings? Don’t investors and employees deserve some transparency?
Cancerous Corporate Governance
Second, let’s talk about the Board. Is the IBM Board of Directors an admirable group of people? Are they models of good corporate governance and ethical conduct? Have they led their own businesses in a manner consistent with IBM’s principles? Do we trust them as an independent voice for overseeing Executive Management? Does this group of mostly men make us proud to call ourselves IBMers, or Americans, or global citizens?
Unlike some current and former CEOs who sit on the Board, the best I can say about Chairman, President, and CEO Rometty is that I do not believe she is personally responsible for a marketing campaign that resulted in patient deaths or disease. Now that Watson Health has tanked — and the flagship Watson product is floundering — at least there is low risk of killing patients.
Here are some sample Board Member biographies:
— Johnson the group I started — ValueVeracity.org — is defunct; but what was true then remains true today. See this webpage where IBMers say why they signed.
Do you believe you were discriminated against based on your age? Yes, IBM fired younger workers, but you still have a claim because the law says that we only have to prove that the Company’s policies disparately impacted workers over the age of 40 in violation of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA). They did. No doubt — I witnessed utter destruction of IBM’s footprint in Southern California as well as extraordinarily short-sighted, stupid layoffs of veteran IBMers in the hugely profitable mainframe platform business unit. ProPublica’s investigation documented systematic age-discrimination dating as far back as former CEO Sam Palmisano. For those hundreds of IBM managers and executives who are privy to Virginia’s latest schemes, it’s time for you to speak up. Do your duty. Pass information to the ProPublica reporter and class action lawyers serving IBMers.
File your complaint today with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)! My bogus Separation Agreement is fairly standard; therefore, I exercised my right to file a charge with the EEOC. It takes less than 30 minutes on the EEOC portal.
I have applied to join this class-action suit filed by LICHTEN & LISS-RIORDAN — the law firm that beat Uber. For more information, send an email to ibmlawsuit@llrlaw.com, Subject line: IBM Class Action Request for Information. Ask for information about the class action suit.
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