IBM Says 'Couldn't Fire 150K US Workers If We Wanted To'

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Sunday May 13, 2007 @05:37AM from the big-blue-responds dept.

theodp writes "In an e-mail worthy of the Dilbert Hall of Fame, IBM execs responded to Robert X. Cringely's Project LEAN layoff rumors, reassuring employees by pointing out that they've already wiped out too many U.S. jobs to be able to lay off another 150,000. Big Blue's employment peaked around 1985, when it had about 405,000 workers who were acclimated to a long tradition of lifetime employment. IBM puts its current global workforce at 355,766, with a 'regular U.S. population' of less than 130,000."

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We're Hiring! by Anonymous Coward · 2007-05-13 05:40 · Score: 5, Funny

Silly Cringley! We're Hiring negative 20 thousand employees!
Re:IBM Town by Tablizer · 2007-05-13 06:13 · Score: 5, Funny

I've always wondered why they don't just move all of the IBM employees and their families into one big town.

It's called "Bangalore".

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