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IBM Layoffs 2015: Here's What You Need To Know -- Big Blue's employees bracing for massive job cuts
Talkin Cloud ^ | 01/29/2015 | CJ Arlotta |

Posted on 01/29/2015 7:55:50 AM PST by SeekAndFind

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1 posted on 01/29/2015 7:55:50 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Gotta love this rockin’ economy huh? I hear jobless “CLAIMS” are down meaning full recovery. Right? No?


2 posted on 01/29/2015 8:01:10 AM PST by rktman (Served in the Navy to protect the rights of those that want to take some of mine away. Odd, eh?)
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To: SeekAndFind

But we need H1Bs to fill all those desperate tech jobs!


3 posted on 01/29/2015 8:01:18 AM PST by Regulator
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To: SeekAndFind

Numbers too big to ignore. I suspect Obama is going to be forced to start demonizing and demagoguing them.


4 posted on 01/29/2015 8:02:37 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: SeekAndFind

A year before the layoffs hit Intel in 2002 and 2014, Sr Management gave instructions to First Level Management to write up employees for anything.
Quite often items were simply “made up” just to meet quota of # of targeted employees.

During 2014, many managers decided to leave rather than implement these attacks on good hard working employees.

President Rene James is going to destroy Intel.
She is not qualified for the job and doesn’t know what she is doing.


5 posted on 01/29/2015 8:07:20 AM PST by Zathras
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To: Regulator

“But we need H1Bs to fill all those desperate tech jobs!”

IBMs not laying off any H1Bs. They’re still out walking the halls, which is what seems to pass for work with them when they’re not on the phone to India for hours at a time.


6 posted on 01/29/2015 8:07:56 AM PST by dljordan (WhoVoltaire: "To find out who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.")
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To: SeekAndFind

Obama voters.


7 posted on 01/29/2015 8:08:14 AM PST by Albion Wilde (It is better to offend a human being than to offend God.)
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When you lay-off an H1B employee you are legally on the hook to return them and their families to India.

More airfare then Big Blue likely wants to spring for at present.


8 posted on 01/29/2015 8:09:12 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: rktman

Gotta love this rockin’ economy huh?

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It is rockin’. Obama keeps handing out more and more benefits to government employees.


9 posted on 01/29/2015 8:10:08 AM PST by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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To: Regulator

Isn’t Ted Cruz one of those pushing for more H1Bs?


10 posted on 01/29/2015 8:12:20 AM PST by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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They’re on the phone rounding up all the relatives to move to Sunnyvale and get on SSI !


11 posted on 01/29/2015 8:16:48 AM PST by Regulator
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To: Buckeye McFrog

I’d imagine that’s a bargain compared to laying off Americans—or keeping unneeded employees working.


12 posted on 01/29/2015 8:31:59 AM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: SeekAndFind
Here's what you need to know about IBM's most recent round of layoffs. (Last Updated: 10:34 A.M. EST on 1/29/2015.)

Ping to follow the thread.

13 posted on 01/29/2015 8:32:15 AM PST by Alex Murphy ("the defacto Leader of the FR Calvinist Protestant Brigades")
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To: SeekAndFind

But the economy has recovered!
We keep getting told so!
Just like global warming is settled, the models say so..despite modeling not being able to accurately predict the next three days let alone fifty years..
*Ugh*


14 posted on 01/29/2015 8:33:28 AM PST by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
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To: SeekAndFind

I sold all my IBM a couple of days ago that i got from my late father


15 posted on 01/29/2015 8:39:29 AM PST by al baby (Hi Mom)
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To: dljordan

“IBMs not laying off any H1Bs. They’re still out walking the halls, which is what seems to pass for work with them when they’re not on the phone to India for hours at a time.”

They do that at IBM too? They do that in state government in WI as well.


16 posted on 01/29/2015 8:57:15 AM PST by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics)
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“Isn’t Ted Cruz one of those pushing for more H1Bs?”

At least he was as of a year ago. Rather than kick him to the curb, make sure he’s informed and give him a chance to walk it back. I remem about a decade ago Rush was kinda soft on illegals, perspectives mature.


17 posted on 01/29/2015 9:00:25 AM PST by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics)
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To: Dr. Sivana

Are you going to email this thread to Cruz or should I?


18 posted on 01/29/2015 9:11:54 AM PST by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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To: rktman
So if the Dow Industrials is suppose to be a collection of multinationals, and the world economy is imploding, how is the DOW continuing to hold above its price supports? I just don't get the disconnect between Wall Street and reality.
19 posted on 01/29/2015 9:20:14 AM PST by Sam Gamgee (May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won't. - Patton)
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To: Sam Gamgee

There is nowhere else to invest money.


20 posted on 01/29/2015 9:23:20 AM PST by neocon1984
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