Thread: IBM Employee Job Cut Survival Kit

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IBM Employee Job Cut Survival Kit
Helpful Information
Updated July 7, 2004

Things To Do:

* While you still have access to IBM systems, print off your salary history and pension history and take it home. (Even if you get 30 days to "find another job in IBM", you may no longer have access to these systems).

* If you have any files at work listing award history, education history or other personal information, print them and take them home. Education history can be important in establishing the skills you list in your resume.

* Write down exactly how much vacation and floating holiday time that you've used. Make sure you have taken credit for all your holidays. Unused holidays are forfeited.

* If you are in a location where 500 or more employees have been let go within 30 days, IBM must conform to the federal WARN act and give you 60 days notice and 60 days pay.

* If you are over 40 years old, please file an age discrimination complaint with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC); their web site is http://www.eeoc.gov. This is particularly important if your area has new college hires. Document if new hires are brought into your former area after you have been let go. It is perfectly legal for you to file a complaint even if you've signed a waiver to get your severance check.

* Locate copies of your appraisals and PBC ratings from "HRA", and take them home. IBM won't voluntarily give you any reference information after you are gone. Plus, if you decide to file a complaint with the EEOC, you will need a record of your performance. Even if you don't lose your job at this time it is always good practice to keep your personal records at home.

* Keep in contact with co-workers who remain at IBM. Be sure to make a list of their external email id's and phone numbers so you can contact them (you can make a copy of your Lotus notes directory.) Sometimes the best source of a new job is one of your colleagues.

* Send a note to the IBM pension administrator (pension@us.ibm.com) asking for a copy of your current vested rights in both annuity form and cash form. Provide your serial number and home address.

* Also please send the Alliance an e-mail (endicottalliance@stny.rr.com) about your job loss. We need the statistics.You can also send us anonymous comments through our Visitor Comments section. You do not have to provide your name if you don't wish to do so.

* DO NOT assume your manager is watching out for your best interests. They too may be laid off and looking for a job themselves. If they give you a window for finding another job inside IBM, make the calls yourself and send out as many resumes as possible.

Web Site Links With Further Information:

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission: http://www.eeoc.gov

Older Workers Protection Act: http://www.ahipubs.com/FAQ/benefits/older.html

US Dept. of Labor: http://www.dol.gov

Find your state Unemployment Office: http://www.workforcesecurity.doleta.gov/map.asp

Helpful Articles:

http://adresnet.com/laidoff.html
http://jobsearchtech.about.com/library/ ... 0398-3.htm
http://www.essence.com/highlights/at_wo ... 2202.shtml

For those who remain:

Without a union, management dictates everything about a layoff. With a union, we could have a grievance procedure for unfair situations and we can have the terms of the layoff in writing, such as the right to be recalled back to your job when business picks up. It is up to you - continue with Gerstner and Palmisano controlling your future OR join the Alliance and build power in the workplace for IBM employees.


Disclaimer: This information is not legal advice. Please consult an attorney for any questions you may have.

Great advice!!

GO GO GO AMERICAN WORKERS!! Stand up and fight for every right you have, most particularly the right to the job in the first place. Run these illegal aliens out on their rails, lobby Congress to take their H1B and H2B visas and amnesty and stuff them where the sun don't shine, and boycott every globalist company and politician that even breathes the words "free trade is good for America" and "we're a nation of immigrants", because nothing could be further from the truth and 233 years of American History prove that beyond any doubt whatsoever.

Wake Up Americans! You're being sold out, enslaved and impoverished by the very people you trusted to secure your liberty and prosperity.

Originally Posted by millere

IBM Employee Job Cut Survival Kit

From:

http://www.endicottalliance.org/jobcutsreports.php


Comment 08/26/09: According to BluePages, there have been about 13K names removed since 1/2009 in the USA. Some may be contractors, but that's 13K people let go in the USA, about 10%. -Anonymous-


13,000 people have been fired from IBM and their jobs sent to India.

That totally sucks. 13,000 manufacturing sector jobs lost x 6, the number of total jobs created by 1 manufacturing sector job = 78,000 jobs lost to the US economy by IBM.

Originally Posted by Judy

That totally sucks. 13,000 manufacturing sector jobs lost x 6, the number of total jobs created by 1 manufacturing sector job = 78,000 jobs lost to the US economy by IBM.

Yet, IBM has it's hand out wanting stimulus monies - stimulus monies paid for by American taxpayers, thousands of whom IBM has stolen jobs from with their treasonous outsourcing.

I feel so badly for all the American people losing their jobs and homes. And the gov't that should be helping our people is dumping salt on their wounds and kicking them in the head and draining them of any future.