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IBM Promises To Hire 25,000 Americans As Tech Executives Set To Meet Trump (reuters.com)
IBM Chief Executive Ginni Rometty has pledged to "hire about 25,000 professionals in the next four years in the United States" as she and other technology executives prepared to meet with President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday. Reuters reports: IBM had nearly 378,000 employees at the end of 2015, according to the company's annual report. While the firm does not break out staff numbers by country, a review of government filings suggests IBM's U.S. workforce declined in each of the five years through 2015. When asked why IBM planned to increase its U.S. workforce after those job cuts, company spokesman Ian Colley said in an email that Rometty had laid out the reasons in her USA Today piece. Her article did not acknowledge that IBM had cut its U.S. workforce, although it called on Congress to quickly update the Perkins Career and Technical Education Act that governs federal support for vocational education. "We are hiring because the nature of work is evolving," she said. "As industries from manufacturing to agriculture are reshaped by data science and cloud computing, jobs are being created that demand new skills -- which in turn requires new approaches to education, training and recruiting." She said IBM intended to invest $1 billion in the training and development of U.S. employees over the next four years. Pratt declined to say if that represented an increase over spending in the prior four years.
The Hillary Clinton method. But those laid off will get cushy government jobs.
Quality of math ability has nothing to do with mis understanding IBM statement. The text has so many loopholes and incomplete ideas, its possible for the lay person to think one thing when reality a completely different outcome is also possible with both being true. I dont know how many people IBM hire in a single year, but from what i have seen they often hire lots of contractors for each and every project. With that in mind 25000 new names over 4 years might not be all that different from the same number of contractors they had over the past few years.
As always, the real problem is that people dont realise that these announcements are written in a way to deceive from the outset, maths has nothing to do with any thing.
When is all that talk about fake news supposed to go into effect? Hiring '25K people in the USA' is in no way equivalent to hiring '25K Americans' and in no way excludes hiring H1-Bs nor excludes contracting to a contracting firm and claiming you've hired everybody at the firm (that's often a selling point: Our firm has 9K years worth of graduate experience behind it). It also makes no mention on the amount of people you're going to fire (but at least the summary does make a note of that). Hire 25K, fire 30K, retire 7K?
Since the knowingly immoral interpenetration of the quotes was directly used to create the blatantly false headline, does that categorize this story as fake news? And people wonder why the trust in journalism has been near completely eroded.
As always, the real problem is that people don't realize that these announcements are written in a way to deceive from the outset, maths has nothing to do with any thing.
I admittedly was lumping concepts like logical reasoning and number sense into the field of mathematics when I made my comment. But that certainly wasn't clear when I used an example of simple computation to criticize math skills. IMO, the worst part of having poor math skills is not the inability to compute numbers, but the inability to identify flawed reasoning especially when numbers are involved. A personal pet peeve of mine is when someone says they were good at math in school except for word problems, which only shows they were quite poor at math but could at least do some simple computation.
-- All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing. -- Edmund Burke
Most EC votes are bound, EG: They must vote the way they are told.
That said, those that voted for President Elect Trump knew exactly what they were voting for - and that's what they want. While I question the wisdom of their vote, I don't question they were simply uninformed of the consequences. My only worry is that Mr. Trump will turn out exactly as bad, or worse, than I expect. Just as Mr. Trump is president of the whole country, so am I bound to the consequences of the votes of those I vehemently disagree with. My only little ray of hope is that I'm mistaken, and those I disagree with were right.
But I don't think that's going to be the case.
Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.
Most EC votes are bound, EG: They must vote the way they are told.
Depends, in some states, if you read the laws, they can be punished after, but the vote remains valid.
More importantly, in 21 states there are no laws, and that is more than enough to swing this election.
That said, those that voted for President Elect Trump knew exactly what they were voting for - and that's what they want. While I question the wisdom of their vote, I don't question they were simply uninformed of the consequences.
I do question their information. Lots of folks didn't realize a thing about Trump, and only gave a superficial examination. Even worse, I've seen people claim that they didn't care what happened, they just hoped he broke the system.
Just as Mr. Trump is president of the whole country, so am I bound to the consequences of the votes of those I vehemently disagree with.
Nope. You are bound to the limits of your conscience. My state makes that express in its constitution, and thereby ascribes the role of ultimate arbiter to the people in their individual persons, but it is true in those others that don't say it.