Big Sammy P, don't promise praise to your employees and then stab them in the back
Big Sammy P, don't promise praise to your employees and then stab them in the back
Generally, the people have been fun to work with. Flexibility has been good. If you have personal situations during the day, people are understanding about you needing to deal with them. They will pay for your education if it's approved by management.
Many layoffs, low morale. The performance rating structure is horrible, and the raises and bonuses are awful. The compensation is already low compared to many of my friends in similar jobs at other companies. Because of the performance rating, the team structure is turned into a competition to get ahead, where the pushy, obnoxious people are the ones who get the promotions.
Sam Palmisano: When you personally send an email to the entire corporation in 2007, praising us for our hard work, good results, and good financials, and tell us regarding bonuses (and I quote) "The payout for employees will be up significantly from last year's amount," you really should follow through on that.
This is only one year out of many that the "rosy" picture painted in the media, to the stockholders, and even internally to employees is not backed up by actions. In this case, I feel you've gone even farther, from letting us down to blatantly lying.
This was not just me; this was most of the people in my department and larger group. Morale is low, and you just kicked us in the teeth after telling us how great we were.
I'm happy for you that the stock is soaring. I'm sure after your millions of salary, the extra stock options will be a nice bonus, but I do wish you'd think about someone other than yourself, and something other than your next Ferrari.
The failure of leaders at IBM to follow through on their promises has caused me to give up any hope that they have their employees' best at heart.
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