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Re: 100 Best Companies to Work For

There are several hundred thousand reasons for IBM not making the list and then
there are a few more that come to mind:
- Managed by Greedy Bastards
- Lost it's basic principles
- Manipulates stock prices
- Cooks it's books
- Pits employees verses Retirees


--- In ibmretiree@yahoogroups.com, "orsonbear" <orsonbear@...> wrote:
>
> Fortune has just announced the 2012 edition of their annual 100 Best Companies
to Work For list. IBM, not unexpectedly, is not on the list (has not been for
years). I notice in the reader comment section at the end (see link below),
someone who declares himself to be a "proud IBMer" wonders why IBM was left off
the list. Uh huh.
>
> http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/best-companies/2012/full_list/
>





Sun Jan 22, 2012 1:33 pm

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Fortune has just announced the 2012 edition of their annual 100 Best Companies to Work For list. IBM, not unexpectedly, is not on the list (has not been for...
orsonbear Offline Send Email Jan 20, 2012
7:03 pm

There are several hundred thousand reasons for IBM not making the list and then there are a few more that come to mind: - Managed by Greedy Bastards - Lost...
flatsflyer Offline Jan 22, 2012
1:33 pm

IBM preaches how great it is, but, its retirement stinks....
rlcxz Offline Feb 4, 2012
4:06 pm

As with most US companies, IBM has no retirement plan for current employees. Since this discussion group is "IBM Retiree", then you are presumably someone who...
orsonbear Offline Send Email Feb 4, 2012
5:57 pm

All you have to do is ask the current employees about the working conditions and the current work action that they are coming up with. Even with a six year...
Joe Rothengast
jjroth Offline Send Email
Feb 4, 2012
6:47 pm

You are so right, retire debt free! And with no dependents (no college tuition payments, etc.). And you really don't need that much money to live well. I...
netmouser Offline Feb 5, 2012
3:02 pm

Yep that's the way we planned it and also took SS at 62 just to pad the monthly income. It also helps to pay off the mortgage at least 10 years before you...
lastdino1 Offline Send Email Mar 12, 2012
9:57 pm

Maybe IBM RAed the guy who put together the application packet ....???? Sent from my iPod...
Carol Ziemba
cziemba Offline Send Email
Feb 2, 2012
11:11 pm

Must be I'm wearing the wrong kind of glasses, but I've been retired since '92 and don't have a thing to complain about. Quoting another on this board, "life...
K1OXD@...
d_arey35 Offline Send Email
Feb 6, 2012
3:13 am

I also retired in 1992, but what concerns me more than just how I'm doing is what IBM did to all the people who have subsequently screwed Big Time. The...
flatsflyer Offline Feb 6, 2012
1:50 pm

I retired in 1999, remarried early 2000. For 2000, my total medical bills=$2500 For 2010, my last year before Medicare=$20,000. More than $12,000 was for IBM...
Howard
howardschubert Offline Send Email
Feb 20, 2012
1:35 am

Come-on Dave...maybe you forgot to change your prescription since 1992 (and need to pull your pants down from under your armpits). The loyalty and benefits you...
bigblewit Offline Send Email Mar 12, 2012
9:57 pm

Sounds like the second marriage is to blame for all those bill. On Mon, 20 Feb 2012 02:17:41 -0000 hankharty <no_reply@yahoogroups.com> writes: Sam figured...
Wayne E Frye
wayne_frye2002 Offline Send Email
Feb 20, 2012
2:40 am
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