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IBM Promised Domestic Jobs, But is Firing Thousands of US Workers and Moving Some Jobs Overseas (siliconbeat.com)
As companies fall all over themselves to hype creation of U.S. jobs, IBM is catching flak for promising thousands of new ones while firing folks right and left. From a report: Company CEO Ginni Rometty said in a December USA Today op-ed that her firm would hire 25,000 people for U.S. positions in the next four years, 6,000 of them this year. "She didn't mention that International Business Machines Corp. was also firing workers and sending many of the jobs overseas," reports Bloomberg. Big Blue wrapped up its third round of 2016 firings -- or "resource actions" in IBM HR parlance -- in late November, and job losses for the year likely totaled in the thousands, current and former employees told Bloomberg. Many of the jobs were shipped to Asia and Eastern Europe, and the firings have continued into this year, employees said.
Meanwhile, the whiners (who are still wasting everybody's time complaining about the results of an election they do not like) neglect to say that Obama never so much as mentioned, never mind took action, to keep jobs from being offshored during his eight years in office despite the fact that he entered office at the start of the worst recession with the most unemployment since the Great Depression.
Yeah. I can't wait to pay American labor rates for everything I buy.
Now instead of hearing us cry about not being able to afford health insurance, you'll hear us cry about not being able to afford anything.
Trump: Let's Make American Products Expensive Again!!