Do you know if any other LTD companies are any different? Seems like it might be the way they operate, no? L. ... sounds like a wonderful benefit but only...
60396
thekanck
Jan 1, 2006 9:48 pm
Let me just suggest for the benefit of others (sorry about your situation it stinks for sure) that current employees pursue a supplimental disability policy...
60397
fhawontcutit
Jan 2, 2006 3:09 pm
http://tinyurl.com/agjyl ... Business couldn't do any better than Chief Justice John Roberts and Samuel Alito on the Supreme Court. The prospect of the two on...
60398
Paly
pal409
Jan 2, 2006 5:06 pm
... From what I read and people I spoke with all these company paid plans operate this way.I have heard nightmare stories where they just stop a persons check...
60399
fhawontcutit
Jan 3, 2006 1:07 am
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/254228_specialtycare02.html ... Even as the percentage of uninsured King County residents grows, fewer and fewer local...
60400
finitewisdom
Jan 3, 2006 8:55 pm
Remember him? He was IBM's CEO from 1973 to 1981....
60401
zer0t0l
Jan 3, 2006 11:14 pm
-"Freezing" benifit pension plans DOES NOT mean a reduction or that anyone will "lose portions of their retirement income". Its a "freeze"....which means staus...
60402
zer0t0l
Jan 4, 2006 12:27 am
it was an 'eye opener'. This man after several years with the NY Transit authority, opted for IBM as an IBM CE (does anybody here remember those guys?). He...
60403
zer0t0l
Jan 4, 2006 12:30 am
... then, get paid....
60404
Carl Lackey:)
creepingstone
Jan 4, 2006 12:55 am
... Did you miss the discussion about IBM Pension being deffered compensation, and that money is alreay ours? Carl...
60405
Paly
pal409
Jan 4, 2006 1:38 am
Yup, not a bad guy either, I had the pleasure of meeting him. finitewisdom wrote: Remember him? He was IBM's CEO from 1973 to 1981....
60406
Don
oldfkndog
Jan 4, 2006 4:44 am
... Isn't he the one who decided that microprocessors and software for them had no real commercial value? -- Don...
60407
abouthadit
Jan 4, 2006 2:50 pm
... I remember him. He was one of the last of the executive gentlemen with class....
60408
abouthadit
Jan 4, 2006 2:50 pm
... No...
60409
finitewisdom
Jan 4, 2006 4:02 pm
Cary followed the last of the Watsons.... Here's more on him as he was apparently interviewed by Watson Jr.'s son.... ...
60410
bozemansmith
Jan 4, 2006 6:10 pm
... Yes I do. I had just been hired in POK in the fall of '77, and he attended the Christmas Party at eh Country Club there. My management team (for some...
60411
Mike
omikey2
Jan 4, 2006 8:54 pm
... who was the lab director then, Mike Mon....(sp) ?...
60412
Don
oldfkndog
Jan 5, 2006 1:34 am
... for them ... Yes! He presided over giving the PC business to Intel and Microsoft. If it weren't for him there wouldn't even be a Microsoft. -- Don...
60413
J.
grayhorse89
Jan 5, 2006 1:57 am
Who needs MS-DOS when you have punch card machines ? Who needs TCPIP when you have SNA ? Great forward thinking IBM moments ....thats why they make the big...
60414
dcrabby2002
Jan 5, 2006 2:10 am
... do your job ... get paid ... Hmmm! Sounds like a deal to me. I met Cary, and Jack Wirtz, at my first 100% club. We had a short but pleasant conversation....
60415
Julian Thomas
matinicuscat
Jan 5, 2006 2:10 am
In <dphcma+sht4@eGroups.com>, on 01/04/06 ... Mike Monachino. I maybe should know you - feel free to email me offline with where you were in Pok at that time...
60416
Paly
pal409
Jan 5, 2006 2:11 am
Is it true the we retirees recieve a lessor medical benefit than current employees??? I mean more money and more of a co pay??...
60417
zer0t0l
Jan 5, 2006 3:03 am
... No, well aware but pension funds were always put aside for the worker in a variety of baskets depending on the industry or union trade etc. NYC teachers at...
60418
dcrabby2002
Jan 5, 2006 3:03 am
Wrong. Those decisions were requested by the late Don Estridge and his staff. The CMC was the final decision point, but only made the decision based on the...
60419
dcrabby2002
Jan 5, 2006 3:04 am
We pay a higher premium for smiliar benefits than current active employees. ... current employees??? I mean more money and more of a co pay??...
60420
The Snodgrass Family
b_snod
Jan 5, 2006 3:05 am
yes, they want to stick us with higher risk costs and try to keep the folks "that are doing something for me NOW" happy...... IMHO BS!!!!!!!!!!!...
60421
justa_bean_counter
justa_bean_c...
Jan 5, 2006 3:53 am
... IBM, ... and ... and ... IBM's pension trust is governed by ERISA law. Much of those other plans that you diss are NOT. Because we are protected by...
60422
Don
oldfkndog
Jan 5, 2006 5:56 am
... I know this discussion really doesn't belong on this board. Maybe we can take it to reThink or debate? I honestly believe that Cary was the beginning of...
60423
ibmmike2006
Jan 5, 2006 2:19 pm
... <dcrabby2002@y...> ... and ... the ... staff. ... frame ... imagination ... and ... we ... was ... to ... by ... You are forgetting the longest Anti-trust...
60424
west_coast_retired_guy
west_coast_r...
Jan 5, 2006 4:45 pm
A good friend of mine worked for Frank Cary in what perhaps Frank's first management job in sales in San Francisco. He's told me many times what a great and...
