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

Posted by ryuzaki0 on 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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  1. Nobody Owes You a Job for Life by aquatone282 · · Score: 0, Troll

    Nobody

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    What?
  2. IBM will lay off about 350k employees worldwide by etnu · · Score: 0, Troll

    ...as they go out of business over the next decade. IBM has lately become nothing more than an overpriced version of Infosys. Their tech innovation has died, and the only worthwhile projects that they're still involved in are their open source contributions. Tech companies simply shouldn't have so many god damned employees. Once you spread yourself too thin, you're bound to become useless.