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Cuts, cuts, cuts

Database Administrator
Current Employee
Has worked at IBM for less than 1 year
August 15, 2011
3.0
Doesn't RecommendDoesn't Approve of CEO
Pros

Looks good on a resume. Good starting salary. Great co-workers. Flexible work schedule.

Cons

Salary cut from year one. Furloughs every year. Double-digit erosion of salary even as the company posts record-breaking profits year after year. De-motivation seems to be a built-in theme to encourage you to leave. Middle management is lost, as out-of-touch decisions roll downhill from above. Absolutely no incentive, monetarily or otherwise, to improve. Clients are not a priority; only stockholders. May not be so impressive on a resume for long, given their continuing effort to establish a horrible reputation as a bad company to work for.

Advice to Management

To upper management, if you really care about IBM, give employees a reason to stay, not leave.

Cutting human resources so callously time after time in order to impress stockholders will eventually result in a talentless vacuum. Word is already out there IBM is not a good company to work for. Why do you strive to make it worse?

Even offshore workers are dismayed and disillusioned. You know how hard you have to work to make offshore resources shun you?

Giant websites exist just to document IBM transgressions against its human resources because they are so numerous and vast.

ARE YOU HEARING ANYTHING UP THERE??? ANYTHING???

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