Hi all, I am sure this has been asked before. I joined IBM in 1982. Left IBM in 1994 to hire on to Lotus. IBM bought Lotus in 1995. Now I found out that I lost...
... Wasn't there also a FIVE year pre-retirement bridge at least at one point? If fired for doing something horrible (like misplacing an empty cardboard box as...
... option ... sold to ... IBM ... The consensus seem to be you would have to wait for the end of the month of your 55 birthday, the day after would be too...
Note how ex-San Jose IBM'er management treated their Hitachi disk drive employees, i.e. ex-IBM'ers) when they reduced employment by 400 earlier this year....
Don't be so quick to praise HGST folks. Seems as if one of the reasons for the disk drive division sale in the first place was IBM's motivation to rid...
... Well, if that is true, watch IGS. There are soooooooooo many employees with at least 20 years of service, the IBM execs have to be looking at IGS like it's...
That's what they said about the PC business until Sam pulled the trigger. The Lenovo acquisition has proven to these greedy pirates that they can sell any part...
IBM RETIREES GAIN BERNIE SANDERS CO-SPONSORSHIP OF HR1322. Congressman Bernie Sanders has introduced 1 bill (HR 1677) to protect workers pensions and...
http://www.forbes.com/home/feeds/afx/2005/05/01/afx1988547.html ... International Business Machines Corp is to cut 15,000 jobs throughout Europe next month as...
I asume IGS is IBM Global Services, computer support for IBM? What are is SO, ITS and BCRS ????????? ... -- John C. Keene ... When IBM requested a continuance...
Following is a note I sent to IBM benefits (any suggestions?): Joe Pasquelli sent to me a letter dated 3/10/05, which seems to contain an error about "points"...
What is IGS, SO, ITS and BCRS - described below IGS = IBM Global Services IBM Global Services is the world's largest business and technology services provider,...
Losing one's job is pretty awful, as is being sold, losing promised benefits or having any involuntary changes. All of these topics have been discussed here...
Below is the speech Mike Saville gave last Tuesday about his off-shoring ... IBM Shareholder Meeting - Charleston, SC April 26, 2005 "Offshoring" Proposal by...
Maybe a Marxist-Leninist type of closed economy? That way we can all have an equal share of the dwindling US standard of living. Not a pretty picture but...
... Great question! Thomas Friedman, in his new book "The World is Flat: A Brief History of the 21st Century" offers some thought-provoking observations... One...
Good note! Exactly who is Joe Pasquelli? If he is just a worker at Fidelity, it is probably time to work your way up the chain of command... Don't make an...
-I came up with 37.8% . The formula (based on 1.35%)when I retired was ...example ...your yrs = 28 x's 1.35% ='s 37.8% of avg 5 yr salary and not 33.6% ....
and national health care is not free. Your taxes are a lot higher in those industrial nations that offer "free" national health care. One way or the other ,...
"to compete with other companies that have ... don't you worry. IBM is well on their way to achieving all of the above. ... promised ... have ... supposed ... ...
... History ... From IBM's 2004 10-k http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/51143/00010 4746905004595/a2152314zex-13.htm ... The total cost of the company's...
http://www.newsday.com/news/politics/wire/sns-ap-d emocrats-health,0,6769126.story?coll=sns-ap-politics-headlines ... House Democrats intend to outline a...
Just curious for constructive comments as to how IBM could prosper as a business, given the competition in the current marketplace & economic environment. How...
http://tinyurl.com/b9hud May 03, 2005 - IBM employees are bracing themselves for a dreaded round of layoffs, expected to hit in the next one or two weeks,...
Thank you, Zero, for that astute observation. A recent article ranked Minnesota at the top of the list regarding health care benefits for it's citizens(wish I...
Laid off IBMer Dale Thomforde won his appeal of dismissal of his age discrimination in layoff case at the 8th circuit court of appeals. The district court had...
... Those who get laid off because their jobs are shipped over seas don't have to pay taxes any more. I'm not sure they would agree that is such a good deal! ...
... Please refer to http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/ibmpension/message/57283 for an excellent overview of why we in the United States pay so much for ...
Once it was totally theoritical but now its probability seems to be increasing due to the lack of execution by the "Greed team" of current IBM execs put in...
