The next step could be to make all SSR's exempt, eliminating ALL overtime. It's entirely possible and unless SSR's get together and act in their own self...
Rumors abound that there will be job cuts in Poughkeepsie next month. Employees will have the proverbial 30 days to find another job in IBM. That's all I've...
"Dell admits it has "learned its lesson" after being forced to drop its Indian call center last year following customer complaints about the quality of...
"Dell admits it has "learned its lesson" after being forced to drop its Indian call center last year following customer complaints about the quality of...
When I was a Customer Engineering manager, one of greatest fears was the realization that if the Customer Engineers ever organized with a Union, the Fortune...
I agree. I talk to ssr's all the time. Job cuts have forced those remaining to take on more customers, increase their work day and expand their area of...
Losing the Sunday double-time is just the tip of the iceberg. Managers are forcing SSR's to falsify their timecards to keep expenses down so managers can line...
By Jason Bush in Moscow High skills and low turnover could make Russia a programming player Alexei Nikolaevsky has had his share of difficulties. In the 1990s,...
This is sad. Back in the real IBM the following actually happened to me. I took a call late in the afternoon on a 1442 that had been jamming intermittently....
I can see it now. The Brighton Beach mafia software salesman calls on a prospect and says "Da Comrade, I will tell you how much software you want to buy". ......
I see where you are coming from, but don't take this post the wrong way because I mean no harm. However, it's attitudes like your's (IOW do the right thing for...
That's no surprise. Hasn't anyone (SSR's) noticed lately that the dispatchers seem to have acquired some very interesting new names? Heather Rod Billy Rick ...
... The IBM ... kill for ... Agreed! I should have been clearer in that I am speaking from the point in time when IBM started to change and it no longer became...
BBC News World Edition / Sunday, 11 April, 2004 / [source at end] Workers find voice on the net Radio station run out of Eric Lee's home in London A leafy...
Shorfall in IBM Retirement Health Benefits It is now mid-April and had I still been just on the IBM Retirement Health Benefits I would already have been out of...
By David Moberg | 4.15.04 Downsizing the CEO Labor and shareholders unite to roll back executive power The omnipotent corporate chief executive emerged in the...
NOTE the 1990-2003 numbers in this article!!! BOSTON - April 14 - After declining for the last two years, the gap in pay between average workers and large...
Letter To Sam Palmisano - The CGT IBM France We are part of a trade union called La CGT, standing for "La Confédération Générale du Travail", which is one...
Maybe a litle off topic- but are there any former/current employees who worked at the Boca complex? I currently work there and have some questions. Thanks in...
Maybe a litle off topic- but are there any former/current employees who worked at the Boca complex? Flatsflyer writes: David, I worked there from 1978 through...
The EEOC has decided that companies can cancel Health Benefits for Retiree's once they reach 65. Expect a love letter from Randy "ASSHOLE" McDonald any day...
Hey everyone, CNN will have a live feed (I think that means various sound bites from a reporter at the meeting and rally) during the day tomorrow. Also, CHECK...
Labor Dept. Creates New Enforcement Group By LEIGH STROPE AP Labor Writer WASHINGTON (AP) - The Labor Department, facing political heat over new overtime pay...
IBM Shareholders Require Company to Treat Stock Options As Business Expense http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/040427/ibm_shareholders_2.html PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) -- IBM...
IBM Earnings & Vapor profit for 7 years as of 04-01-04. Excerpt: Vapor profit is the paper boost to IBM income from pension fund accounting rules. It is purely...