I’ve been getting warnings about possible RA from my mgr for about 18 months now. Somehow, every time, I survive – but the threat never goes away. I frankly think that all of this is crafted to put an additional pressure on older and experienced workers – the logic assumes that the worker will feel insecure and will start looking (and find) employment somewhere else.
No severance paid, no legal inquires, low risk and savings all around for Gini and the rest of the executive management. That’s your brave new IBM, I’d bet that any frank inquiry into employee satisfaction would yield numbers so dismal, they would found no match in the history of the corporate enterprise.