Mood:
irritatedNow Playing: 'An Apology' Awkward silence broken by clumsy goose. (Fables)
Topic: Calamity
This is not a post. This here came from Robert Crinkly's blog here: http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/2007/pulpit_20070511_002058.html what enfurinated a army of hostile checkeekers. This years turkey is going to look like the underside of a schoolmarm's desk, pilgrim. No gummy lumps but they's probably teeth.
And like I said this is not technically a post even though it will tally up on the calendar to the left (your left, my left). This is much like one of those tags on the mattress you go to Folsom for tearing them off. Had me a uncle did twenty two years for a truckload of them tags. But they wasn't tore off so I don't exactly know what he went in the can for. It's all a conspiracy anyways. The little guy gets a kick in the pants and a how'd ya like that? for conversation.
Anywho... packing up a few more boxes of what-knots to bring over to Morrie's for safe keeping for a while. I'm going to miss packing poo into that little calendar doohicky to the left.
If I had been packing to the right, I would probably understand why this stupid tag was on a mattress in the first place.
05/10/2007 03:57 PM
From: ITD COMM/Somers/IBM
Subject: Rumors of massive layoffsPatrick Kerin General Manager Global Technology Services - Americas
Joanne Collins-Smee General Manager Integrated Technology Delivery - Americas
Patt Cronin General Manager, Productivity Initiatives Integrated Technology Delivery
We have received many inquiries regarding the subject. If IBM responded to every rumor, we would get distracted from the important work of delivering value to our clients.
However, a recent external blog report suggesting that IBM is planning a massive layoff is causing unneeded activity. If this blog is generating concern in your unit, please feel free to use this information to assure your teams and business leaders that the blog is inaccurate, and relies on gross exaggerations.
The blog suggested we would be letting go more IBMers than we currently employ in the U.S. The facts are that our regular U.S. population is just under 130,000 IBMers -- a number that has remained relatively stable in recent years, as we have divested and acquired businesses and continued to invest through new hiring.
We said when we released 1Q results we would be putting in place a series of actions to address cost issues in our U.S. strategic outsourcing business. We have undertaken efforts toward that, and recently implemented a focused resource reduction in the U.S. While any such reduction is difficult for those employees affected, these actions are well within the scope of our ongoing workforce rebalancing efforts.
The blog also completely misinterpreted our efforts around Lean. To fully understand Lean, you have to view it in a strategic context -- a key part of what we're doing to reinvent service delivery to provide more value to clients and make IBM more competitive. We are using Lean, which is a commonly used methodology to conduct process design and development, to make informed decisions about how to improve and streamline processes. We are going about that in a disciplined and rigorous way, and the intent, as it has always been, is to improve our speed, quality and responsiveness to clients.
http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/2007/pulpit_20070511_002058.html
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