IBM: 'We'll double profits by 2015' IBM expects to double its earnings per share by 2015. Today, IBM is hosting its annual briefing with Wall Street analysts, and this being one of the few times that Big Blue's president, chief executive officer, and chairman speaks, Sam Palmisano stole the show when he said that in the next five years, earnings would reach at …
I'm an ex-IBM employee, and this is absolutely true. The way IBM gets away with it (in the past at least) is that they hire people very young who have no experience, give them all sorts of IBM brainwashing, er I mean training, and they don't realise that life is SO MUCH BETTER outside the walls of that prison and they stay for life.
I joined mid career, and me and others like me had the same horrible experience working there. They pay people crap (unless you were lucky like me and negotiated a good starting wage, which they "normalised" over the course of my time there), treat them like shite and make them think they're working at the best company in the world.
It's a company full of bullies (the number of bullying cases they are fighting at any one time is staggering) looking to do nothing but claim other people's work as their own as they climb the ladder and build their little kingdoms or fiefdoms.
There's a lot of cache with IBM, but working there was the worst experience of my work life. Great on the CV, but so effing glad it's over.
I joined IBM as a grad 10 years ago, on what was a very generous starting salary at the time but once I left the grad scheme and despite being a top or above average performer each year find myself fighting for even a small payrise every 2 years.. it's so ridiculous that myself and some of my peers find ourselves earning less than the current grad intake as grad salaries have steadily risen over time, greater than that of many workers.
It's such a shame as IBM is one of those companies that gives you huge potential to do lots of interesting stuff, but unfortunatly the business model is not set up to reward the hard workers, just let them build up something good, then pack the work offshore.
"Wall Street is a tough audience, apparently. Maybe they will need to see infinite profitability before they push the stock to $200 a share so Palmisano can do a stock split ahead of his presumed retirement next year, IBM's 100th birthday. ®"
Yeah... kind of sums up the push.
If IBM were to do this, they would be cutting costs to the bone, moving as much work offshore to lowest cost labor. (Gee, does the expression... 'you get what you pay for?' mean anything?)
They day Sam announces his retirement, start shorting the stock.
palmisano, a nightmare come true for employees. i worked hard for over 15 years and it was a good company to work for but more of a sinking ship now. he's an accountant, not an entrepreneur and certainly not a man with any vision. cost cutting is all he brought to the table. glad i left few years ago - got tired of working hard only to boost his bonus and nothing for the soldiers.
for me, its been the best move ever. discovered most companies care and want to motivate you. they also know a key ingredient to motivation is financial reward. now i care about the company, the product and enjoy my career.
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