Plus if they are fired "for cause" IBM can dispute any unemployment claims. I doubt that they would but regardless, with the tens of thousands of former long-term, dedicated employees they're shafting it's going to be a lot of bad publicity for IBM to ride out. Not that I think they care about it.
“I read that if your review is low they are cutting the severance and calling it performance related. Super dirty of IBM. Now, these ex-employees will be trying to find jobs with bad performance reviews.
Plus if they are fired “for cause” IBM can dispute any unemployment claims. I doubt that they would but regardless, with the tens of thousands of former long-term, dedicated employees they’re shafting it’s going to be a lot of bad publicity for IBM to ride out. Not that I think they care about it.”
I think people understand business, whether it is driven down by obama or by poor management decisions or both, but for a company to treat folks that way is horrible. I hope that is more rumor than fact.