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by fennecfoxen 4505 days ago
Who says they messed up? IBM sold their server business and Lenovo didn't want all the employees. IBM made money off the sale, IBM saves money not employing everyone anymore, profits and shareholder value.

For a variety of other layoffs, adding management punishment would make some sense. This one, not so much.
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tluyben2 4505 days ago
Like I said; not messing up would be making sure they have other jobs either at IBM or elsewhere. Not calling laying off 13000 people messing up sounds strange to me; you have a social responsibility here. People are not things you can discard when you don't need them anymore. If you have no other way, then ok, but IBM is not close to any kind of bankruptcy or situation like that.
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fennecfoxen 4504 days ago
> not messing up would be making sure they have other jobs either at IBM or elsewhere.

Oh, I see. You're a Communist and think IBM exists to provide jobs, not to provide shareholder profits. That'll necessarily lead you to a different conclusion than it led me.

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