IBM's Palmisano: Tech's Slumdog Millionaire

[antigop]

http://weblog.infoworld.com/tech-bottom-line/archives/2009/02/slumdog_program.html

IBM's cruel layoff options: Take a job in the Third World and lose your severance, move within the United States at your expense, or lose both your job and severance

Meet Sam Palmisano, bozo of the month. We diss IBM's CEO for allowing some management numbskull to suggest that the thousands of Big Blue employees who have been fired recently should consider a move to India. And work really cheaply. Always helpful, IBM is willing to pitch in with moving costs and -- in a particularly ironic twist -- visa assistance.

Yeah, it's hard to believe. But IBM put it in writing: "IBM has established Project Match to help you locate potential job opportunities in growth markets where your skills are in demand," IBM says in an internal memo first obtained by InformationWeek. "Should you accept a position in one of these countries, IBM offers financial assistance to offset moving costs, provides immigration support, such as visa assistance, and other support to help ease the transition of an international move."

OUCH! I wonder if IBM's PR people are going crazy right now.

[OhioChick]

1. Good read.

IBM is pond scum.
Sam should consider going to India and taking his family to live there.

[ChromeFoundry]

2. We won't be seeing Sam move to India...

They kill CEOs over there.

I wonder how many more employee buttons he will have to push, before a disgruntled mass of employees seek him out here.