Posted on 01/26/2015 3:41:54 PM PST by Libloather
Biggest corporate lay-off in history is expected within days, with IBM believed to be scrapping 110,000 of its 430,000 workforce around the world
IBM is preparing to scrap 110,000 of its global 430,000 workforce in the biggest corporate cull in the computer giant's history, a report has revealed.
The company will make the job cuts this week under a plan known internally as 'project chrome', according to US technology blogger Robert Cringely on Forbes website.
IBM is in the process of layoffs, as disclosed in its latest earnings report last week but said the number of job losses was significantly fewer than had been claimed.
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I spent a few months back about 1997 working on becoming a Notes programmer. Thankfully, our Engineering Services department had a better offer for me.
It is such a powerful tool.
OMG!
IBM...Showed up for work in Dallas, was told to take next flight to Atlanta. Showed them the “no travel” clause in my employment contract and told them KMA.
Best decision I ever made. Made a very good living fixing their H-1B visa guy’s screw-ups. And didn’t have to teach or train any H-1B visa guys either.
Other than that, IBM software and applications been very very good for my career.
Mickey D’s, never worked for them, but I learned to sprechen sie Tex-Mex there.
This must be what is driving the Kenyan’s Gallup Approval numbers up over 50%.
My company uses it exclusively. The databases are huge and we must access them on and off-line.
“Is Lotus Notes still around?”
You won’t believe this .. I use a spreadsheet that’s 22 years old and yes it was made for Windows. Installed in 1993. Launch it daily to do my simple business accounting.
Anyone want to venture a guess? Made by Borland.
EXCEL is great especially working with Apache POI to programmatically manipulate spreadsheets.
As is Endicott, NY.
Congratulations!
I had one of those IBM PCs back in my college days during the late 80s. A big upgrade over my previous Commodore 64. hee hee That machine had a hard drive if I remember right around 20 MB of storage. :0
My employer (27 billion in assets) just migrated from Lotus Notes to Outlook.
Just getting an order filled correctly at Mickey D's used to be "the" challenge followed by the correct billing and exchange of money. Tex-Mex comes naturally down here in Texas, but Ebonics, Arabic, and some eastern European accents are nearly impossible to understand, especially through the crappy drive through speakers. For all I know, maybe the guy taking the order was Scottish.
The elephant is about to eat the cheese.
Thank you my FRiend, it has been a LONG year.
“I have to give Excel it’s due. It is a really great piece of software. I wished I was an Excel guru but I work around a few.”
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I agree, Excel is GREAT. I’ve become addicted to all things Apple over the years, but I’ll likely never give up using Excel.
So powerful.
Quattro Pro.
I used it as well, for years.
It had a "Lotus 123" mode that made it very simple to transition from that product.
Family member is 30+ IBM employee! Says woman running company has record losses. Still gets her bonus every year. IMHO Must be planned or offset by tax loss as poor performance won’t be tolerated in true business world.
Dow 20K here we come!
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