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PSA: Former Employees, Spend Your BluePoints

Buy something nice for your spouse. Well as nice as possible. This is like any other points program: the operators are counting on you to slowly forget that you have them. If you are retired (as I am) it becomes easier every day to forget ... anything. Everything. (Anything except the insanity of "stacked rankings" and the conflict between actual "agile" development and standard IBM management diktats. Oh, and RoadMap 2015 and the devastation that caused. And ...)

Before inflation or tariffs or whatever erode the points that you have, cash them out. Get yourself of someone else something usable and feel good knowing that you made the company spend a small amount of cash.

If you are still with the company, you might also want to take some points off the table. There are a lot of theories out there about what inflation might do even in the near term and none of those theories say that your points will be adjusted to compensate.

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@cy You must be from the illiterate caste.

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Post ID: @hv+1k05e8med

to late, i got sc--wed because of age, last name and handicap, oh well. casts are alive and well in who survives

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Post ID: @cy+1k05e8med

If and when you actually retire you get 2,000 Bluepoints or a dinner/lunch for up to 10 people. IBM YOU HAVE GOTTEN SO CHEAP!!! I used them to buy approx $400 of various restaurant gift cards after 25+ years at IBM. Get out while you can since it is very likely you can or want to do your job in India!

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