Comments on: IBM quietly lays off North American staff

Big Blue has laid off as many as 2,800 employees in Canada, and cuts could be coming to its U.S. locations this week, according to reports online.

[veryveryblue]

First to the poster listing those "open" jobs they do not exist... IBM has many open postings that are not real job openings... Due to the current firings, everything is frozen internally so there are no open jobs for the thousands of employee's who have just gotten their "selection packages"... It's all a shell game...

IBM is no longer an American company. It is quietly firing Americans as fast as it can. 10-16,000 this January alone. While it has maintained a workforce of 250-380,000 employee's for many, many years with 150-200,00 being in this country, they have been aggressively changing this and will likely have much less than 100,00 US workers by year end out of almost 400K world wide. The goal is to have 5% of IBM's workforce be American workers. The target employee ratio's are: 80-90% in GDC (offshore countries), 20-10% onshore (in US) (BUT the 20% onshore is 5% Americans and 15% contractors or foreigners on H-1B and other visas). Very sad and it is destroying many American lives. The ironic thing is IBM executives are now trying to get money from our new president for "job creation initiatives". If IBM's request is granted it will PROVE the emperor (US government) has no clothes. If I was President Obama I would look to ELIMINATE any tax advantages given to IBM immediately.

[veryveryblue]

First to the poster listing those "open" jobs they do not exist... IBM has many open postings that are not real job openings... Due to the current firings, everything is frozen internally so there are no open jobs for the thousands of employee's who have just gotten their "selection packages"... It's all a shell game...

IBM is no longer an American company. It is quietly firing Americans as fast as it can. 10-16,000 this January alone. While it has maintained a workforce of 250-380,000 employee's for many, many years with 150-200,00 being in this country, they have been aggressively changing this and will likely have much less than 100,00 US workers by year end out of almost 400K world wide. The goal is to have 5% of IBM's workforce be American workers. The target employee ratio's are: 80-90% in GDC (offshore countries), 20-10% onshore (in US) (BUT the 20% onshore is 5% Americans and 15% contractors or foreigners on H-1B and other visas). Very sad and it is destroying many American lives. The ironic thing is IBM executives are now trying to get money from our new president for "job creation initiatives". If IBM's request is granted it will PROVE the emperor (US government) has no clothes. If I was President Obama I would look to ELIMINATE any tax advantages given to IBM immediately.

[gordon_geeko]

The US needs to start buying American and quit supporting companies that are American in name only. IBM made $8,908,473,014 off of US government contracts between 2000 and 2008.
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