Posted on 09/19/2017 1:31:31 PM PDT by seacapn
IBM CEO Ginni Rometty is in D.C. urging Congress to save DACA
Two weeks after President Donald Trump moved to eliminate a program that protects some young immigrants from deportation, IBM chief executive Ginni Rometty is visiting Capitol Hill to urge lawmakers to save it.
As part of a swing through Washington, D.C., this week, Rometty has met with Senate Democrats and Republicans in a bid to get them to preserve Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, from phasing out beginning in March. The initiative, implemented in 2012, had allowed children brought to the United States illegally to obtain waivers so they could continue to live and work in the country.
“We’ve got 31 of these people at IBM,” said Christopher Padilla, the vice president for government and regulatory affairs at IBM, in an interview Tuesday. “They’re in a wide variety of jobs, everything from software development to people in our design lab who do regulatory compliance work.”
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This reminds me of the music major at Equifax running their security.
It’s about power more than just raw numbers. By pushing something unpopular on the right like DACA so hard, the American “corporate community” is letting politicians know who is REALLY in charge.
[ Engineers at IBM laugh at her.
Same opinion they had of Carly at HP. ]
She is like Merkel’s less bright cousin or something...
IBM exploits cheap, foreign labor. And to use IBM’s services is to use an effectively clueless culture of labor. And that’s a fact.
She’s merely the voice of the pathology IBM has long embraced.
Rometty is another affirmative action :success” story who has driven IBM stock values down 25% in her tenure.
IBM has become a sad shadow of its former self. It is no longer a technology company - it is a “service” company that has exported most of its jobs overseas and brings in thousands of H1B immigrants to displace American workers here.
While she enjoys her membership at Augusta National Country Club, the small towns where IBM used to be located when they ruled the computer world - Endicott, Poughkeepsie, Fishkill, NY, a 1960s farm town San Jose, CA, Rochester, MN, have become depressed enclaves where Americans, AMERICANS, now live on welfare and social security.
And she worries about DACA “kids”, average age 24, who think they have a right to get whatever they want.
Maybe she needs to have a talk with Nancy Pelosi about these nice DACA kids.
“We’ve got 31 of these people at IBM,” said Christopher Padilla, the vice president for government and regulatory affairs at IBM, in an interview Tuesday. “They’re in a wide variety of jobs, everything from software development to people in our design lab who do regulatory compliance work.”
Because there’s absolutely no American anywhere that can do those 31 jobs. So I need a tag?
I wouldn’t say San Jose, a place where single family homes typically cost in excess of $750000, is a depressed enclave where very many Americans live on welfare and social security.
My guess is she sees the writing on the wall in terms of her stewardship of IBM and is using her position to become a liberal Carly Fiorina after her exit.
No word on the tens of thousands they’ve replaced with third world wages, tho.
IBM=irrelevent.
When Rometty was named CEO, the outgoing CEO tellingly said:
“Ginni got it because she deserved it... It’s got zero to do with progressive social policies.”
[ IBM CEO Ginni Rometty is in D.C. urging Congress to save DACA ]
What about Americans, Ginni?
Why? Are they legal or illegals. Are you pro America or not? Why did you hire them in the first place?
Ginni’s IBM laid off US workers to move high tech consulting jobs for resiliency and disaster recovery expertise to India. And that was done as recently as fall 2016.
Just saying.
I would like for all the Dreamers and their parents to be deported. Once the wall is completed, let them come in the correct way.
My prediction is that all of them will be issued green cards and fast tracked to citizenship.
The construction of the wall quickly is imperative.
5.56mm
Clear admission of violating the law in hiring these people. I read today that the 1986 "amnesty" deal that Reagan signed included a $10,000.00 fine for every instance in which an American Employer hired an illegal alien.
A $300,000 dollar fine is a mosquito bite to IBM, but symbolically it would be a good spanking and an embarrassment.
Of course no one has the balls to do such a thing, so we're just going to have to wait and see what happens as a result of this.
Another company to boycott.
(Not that I have bought an IBM product for many years....
I think the last IBM branded product I bought was a mouse, which lasted maybe two months.)
If they hired DACAs, which is what she’s talking about, it’s not against the law. They were given work permits.
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