Re: Hope is on the way for those OUT OF OFFICE messages from IBM

2009-01-07 Thread Mohammad Khan
Don't get your hopes too high. They will hire even more in another part of the globe resulting in more OUT OF OFFICE messages. There will probably be more rants here about their hiring practices as well. Oh well ... the more it changes the more it remains the same. On Tue, 6 Jan 2009

Hope is on the way for those OUT OF OFFICE messages from IBM

2009-01-06 Thread Anton Britz
The layoff date is January 23rd. Approx. 16,000 employees worldwide will be affected. The majority from the US. I heard this from a 2nd line mgr. Confidentiality agreements were signed in the upper ranks to keep this hush, hush, but nothing this big stays out of the light for long. Good