“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.
Based on the information coming out it's far more fact than rumor. And blaming the administration, any administration, for a company's woes is a cop-out. And the end of the day IBM's problems are solely the result of poor management and the bad decisions that they made. That would be true regardless of who is in the White House.