Re: IBM brings down large axe on staff in the US

2016-03-03 Thread Pinnacle
On 3/3/2016 1:10 AM, Jack J. Woehr wrote: Elardus Engelbrecht wrote: But then big blue is still recruiting "... currently has more than 25,000 open positions." The impression I got when contracting at IBM for 4 years was that IBM is sort of like an independent city-state, a transnational

Re: IBM brings down large axe on staff in the US

2016-03-03 Thread John McKown
On Thu, Mar 3, 2016 at 12:10 AM, Jack J. Woehr wrote: > Elardus Engelbrecht wrote: > >> But then big blue is still recruiting "... currently has more than 25,000 >> open positions." >> > The impression I got when contracting at IBM for 4 years was that IBM is > sort of like an

Re: IBM brings down large axe on staff in the US

2016-03-02 Thread Martin Packer
orks/mydeveloperworks/blogs/MartinPacker From: "Jack J. Woehr" <j...@well.com> To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Date: 03/03/2016 06:10 Subject: Re: IBM brings down large axe on staff in the US Sent by:IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU&

Re: IBM brings down large axe on staff in the US

2016-03-02 Thread Jack J. Woehr
Elardus Engelbrecht wrote: But then big blue is still recruiting "... currently has more than 25,000 open positions." The impression I got when contracting at IBM for 4 years was that IBM is sort of like an independent city-state, a transnational entity composed of people from all over the

Re: IBM brings down large axe on staff in the US

2016-03-02 Thread Elardus Engelbrecht
Ed Gould wrote: >http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2016/03/02/ibm_layoffs/ >IBM axed a wedge of workers today across the US as part of an "aggressive" >shakeup of its business. Same story every few year. In fact, the term 'Dead wood' is coming from IBM according to an ex-IBMer. The big blue is

IBM brings down large axe on staff in the US

2016-03-02 Thread Ed Gould
http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2016/03/02/ibm_layoffs/ IBM axed a wedge of workers today across the US as part of an "aggressive" shakeup of its business. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access