I looked at all the categories and saw zero sales people, zero vice presidents, and zero high level people in any category.
Sobering, indeed. Bill Fairchild Franklin, TN “Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder acceptable, and to give the appearance of solidity to pure wind.” [George Orwell] ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dale Miller" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Friday, June 21, 2013 4:34:43 AM Subject: Re: Dice article on IBM layoffs In the mentioned article <http://news.dice.com/2013/06/14/delving-into-ibms-layoff-numbers/ > "Scott M." replied:"I worked for IBM for almost eight years, and I left because they no longer recognized the value of their experienced technical people." Very early in my IBM employment (IIRC) I wound up in an IBM class on project management wherein they strongly emphasized that their research showed that the best ROI on technical projects was achieved by using the most experienced (albeit expensive) technical leaders. We have in years since moved into a school of management group-think that worships at the feet of Ayn Rand and who cannot conceive of any kind of management decision that does not minimize labor rate costs. It appears that the mentality has even gone so far as to incorporate the idea that managers should get rid of experienced (expensive) workers, claiming that they didn't have the skills needed for the new technology (think "cloud"), then hire PFCSK's fresh out of CC's or ITTTech or from India which they can get for a much lower salary. Now they are saying they need more 1B visas because they can't find qualified IT people. What about the tens of thousands laid off in the last year of two from Cisco and HP? Have they all found jobs? Why don't companies feel any moral obligation to the people they are discarding to provide them or even help them get the skills management claims are lacking? I know the old excuse that management is legally bound to protect their stockholders' equity, but there are quite successful companies that emphasize employee training, compensation, and job satisfaction. (Costco and Discount Tires come to mind. - Their CEO's don't beat their chest and say "I built this.", rather they say "our employees did this.".) After all, "General" Sarnoff didn't single-handedly win WWII - it took Rosie the Riveter and Alan Turing and many thousands of GIJoes to do the job. Dale Miller ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
