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IBM Adding Almost 19,000 Jobs

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the on-the-upswing dept.

cyngus writes "IBM has announced they will add 18,800 jobs worldwide in 2004. They say about a third will be in North America. I don't know how many they have added this year so far. After the new hires IBM will employ about 330,000 people worldwide." More good news for the unemployed techie. Although things are far from the halcyon days of dot-com yesteryear, it's good to see companies doing better.

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  1. Re:Are These Outsourced Or Here by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    RTFA^H^H^H^H Ah, nevermind!

  2. Unfortunately by AresTheImpaler · · Score: 5, Funny
    Unfortunately, they will only hire lawyers...

    /me didn't read the article, going to do now....

    1. Re:Unfortunately by MisanthropicProgram · · Score: 4, Funny
      I can just hear the political speaches now:

      "There were thousands of jobs created while I was president. Mind you, not the low paying service jobs like programmers and engineers, but high paying legal jobs: lawyers, paralegals, court stenographers, ...."

  3. Stop the outsourcing by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    They say about a third will be in North America.

    Stop outsourcing our great Indian jobs to North Americans!

  4. Re:Hire Me! by Kenja · · Score: 1, Funny
    "Look, I can make web pages and everything:"

    Neat, can you make any with doctype declarations? In otherwords, your HTML resume fails w3c validation.

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  5. Good news, bad news... by mikael · · Score: 3, Funny

    IBM has announced they will add 18,800 jobs worldwide in 2004. They say about a third will be in North America.

    And they are all lawyers to fight SCO.

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  6. You lazy bastard by Lord+Kano · · Score: 3, Funny

    In the summary it says that about 1/3 of the new jobs will be in North America. I suppose they could mean Mexico or Canada, but I think that the meaning is clear enough.

    LK

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  7. Re:Are These Outsourced Or Here by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    so not only did he not RTFA, he did not read the summary.

    it's an all new low.

    next time, i won't even bother reading the topic.

  8. Re:Are these new jobs? by NoMoreNicksLeft · · Score: 2, Funny

    What in the hell kind of operation is Schlotsky's House of Bacon running that they have 500 IT employees?

    Also, are they hiring? I'd give up stock options for complimetary bacon any day of the week...

  9. IMS Skillz..... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    ...excuse me while I brush off my IMS skillz. Hierarchical Database, what?! DBD, PSB, w00t! Holla...

  10. Kind of ironic by Scud · · Score: 3, Funny

    Isn't IBM in the business of helping other companies outsource work?

    Business must be good...

    John

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  11. Great! 6000 tech jobs for North America by Wansu · · Score: 2, Funny



    994,000 more and we'll be back to the employment levels we had in late '99.

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  12. Re:Uneducated Techies... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    ...that you can work hard for long hours with minimal reward...

    Are you sure you want to tell your employer that?

  13. Re:Linux consulting jobs by Bigger+R · · Score: 3, Funny

    "Polish up your Linux skills boys and get those resumes up to date."

    Don't you mean Finnish up?

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