IBM's 'Transformation': More Layoffs, Despite Earnings Surge

IBM was not a good place to work, at all. The constant threats of PBC 3 ratings, should you not do something perfect, was used to cultivate an environment of fear. I will not go back to work at IBM. And the constant firing and removing older, US workers, to be replaced with imported Indian and Chinese labor, or farmed out to 3rd world countries, was the ultimate in unamerican behavior and disloyalty to its employees. Its all about making money for the execs at IBM, nothing trickled down to the lowly employees. And when Palmisano gave out the 7 shares of IBM stock worth about $1,000 that was the ultimate face slap. Cusotomers are leaving in droves, when IBM implodes it ought to be very intersting indeed.

What ever happened to IBM re-training it's current workforce to acquire the skills to handle new technology and the changing needs of it's customers?

Current IBMers, buy and large, get no internal education from IBM. Nothing. None. IBM education budget is a joke. Just ask any conscientious IBMer who has been with IBM just a few years when they last went for internal training for the job they do or for the future "hot" skills they really want to learn to make a "smarter planet"?

IBM doesn''t want to teach grown ups new tricks. They just like to wean newbies on their customers whether they have the right skill mix or not.

This rebalancing and remixing is more IBM wordspeak for systematically getting rid of the older, experienced workforce skill sets.

Since IBM revenue growth has been dismal, the only way to raise the stock EPS is to cost cut, cut, cut...
until their is nothing left but total inexperienced workforce, old bloated management ,and line of businesses to sell. Then IBM will be as extinct as a dinosaur.

"Transformation is a permanent feature of our business model," IBM spokesman Doug Shelton explained via email. "Technology evolves -- requiring new skills. Client needs shift -- requiring new capability. Consequently, some level of workforce remix is an ongoing part of our business model."
Just another way to say more jobs going overseas. IBM India, China. Brazil, Argentina, Russia continues to grow.

Machines are taking over and we can do nothing.

To be one of the "Top Dogs" for a company and be super rich !
After a short while I would have a hollow victory feeling. Being able to "Buy Anything" would get boring to me.
Who was it that cried and said there were no more worlds to concore.
You lie and cheat the common people so your family will have everything, anything !
What sad people you are.

All of this goes back to Wall street and keeping their stocks high so investers are happy.

If I were an employer, I would rather have a few, or many thousands of employees love me. That would be a greater feeling than all the money in the world.

DUHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!! Thanks Obama. More to come

Company benefts from the work and talent of it's employees and this is the thanks you get; your reward is a pink slip.

Same old IBM layoff's in the US and move the jobs overseas. Then IBM is allowed to have those workers access to all the client information that IBM has such as Gov't installations, Technology centers, Power Plants, Critical infrastructure. Wow a treasure trove of information about all the US in the hands of people who would rather see us all done away with. Do not tell me that it does not happen I worked for IBM over 20 years and I reported the fact that that this sensitive information was in the wrong hands and could easily be mis-used. I am also upset that when IBM gets the Gov't contracts that they pay other countries workers to perform the work on thise Gov't contract so we the American public are funding these folks in another country to preform work. Wake up America and tell your Gov't you do not want your hard earned tax dollars being spent on Foreign workers working on Gov't contracts.