Definitely you are being looked at by HR for retirement.
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If you can’t retire at 65 then you’ve made some very bad financial decisions over the years
The best people no longer go to the loser "has been" companies like IBM. So IBM posts fake jobs with fake huge salaries online. Can you blame the best people for staying away ? The lure of big salaries only hold for 6 months to a year at best; then AK and his goose stepping, jackbooted Indian thugs find a way to push you out on some pretext or the other and transfer your job to India. Who needs that ? Just ask that IBM HR quack, Nickel and Dime.
Now IBM is posting a bunch of early professional hire jobs for 2025. Salary is 4 times as high when I was new in my field
Band 7, you say ?
IBM was willing to take my dog at Band 8 ! Mind you, he's a smart dog and whole lot sharper than that arrogant so and so who calls himself the IBM CEO.
I got out but I was a band 9. Try getting back in again. They will only hire you back at a band 7
If you're over 65 and a Band 10, you should be rich enough by now to not care either way. Retire or get forced out...who cares. Go touch some grass and enjoy the rest of your life.
Over 65 ====> you’re done!!!
I was one of them, so I took off with my head holding high :-)
Canadian layoffs have been much harder for IBM to make stick, as the Canadian judicial system has for the most part ruled most Canadians get three weeks severance for every year served. That has pushed IBM to focus more on USA layoffs vs Canadian. NOTE that doesn’t mean Canadian layoffs don’t happen, as certainly they do, but all things being equal, USA employees usually get hit first.
@xbx+1ueFoJME or Canada
and if you are of Asian Indian descent in the US or northern Europe and can conveniently drop Alvind's name to the local IBM HR doorkeeper, you get an automatic free pass to stay with the company until you are 70+.
And would you like snacks to go with that reprieve at your office location every day ?
You should qualify that If you are over 65 and a band 10 plus you are employed in a first world nation especially the USA or Northern Europe