IBM

They allowed you to work from home.

No raises for many years, lots of layoffs, or gear shifts. You're just a number.

I figured my time was coming to be laid off, or what they call a "gear box." Call it what you want, it is all the same: you lose your job.

I think it is pretty bad that management is not telling the workers affected anything. Not professional at all.

Just going through this is bad enough, but not being provided any information has soured me very much about the way I feel about IBM, and I loved my job.

I understand the company needs to do what it has to, and I am okay with being let go. I am just not okay with not getting any information and getting the runaround.

All this to save a buck, I am sure, because they do not want to pay out any severance package.