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> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Lafever-Brown, Joni
>
> My first reaction to Bill's note was to cough <bullsh1t> but then I
> stopped and really read it. I have to agree although I don't want to.
> My husband has worked for IBM for 30.5 years now and we wonder every
day
> if he will have a job next month or next year. I worked for IBM for
> 10.5 years but got out two years ago when we saw the writing on the
> wall. IBM is looking to reduce costs by lowering the pay scale, plain
> and simple. We hate that IBM is sending more and more work offshore
> when so many people in the USA are out of work. We really hate that
> people we know (many of them highly skilled) have been affected by
IBM's
> infamous "resource actions" these last two years. However, as Bill
> said, "it's not personal, it's business".
>
> Bill hit the nail on the head.
It's not (only) IBM "pushing down the pay scales".
Like it or not, we live in a global economy, and "our" segment of that
global economy is such that anybody can do any of the work we do from
anywhere on the planet. As the initiators of the technological "wave",
we in the US have been riding the crest of that "wave" for a generation
or longer. Now that "wave" is beginning to "normalize" around the
globe, such that those in the "trough" are now rising and those on the
"crest" (us) are falling. Expect that trend to continue until the
"crest" and "trough" have leveled out.
-jc-
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