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Post by tiddles on Mar 19, 2012 15:20:46 GMT 1
I am absolutely stunned by this. What IBM? Why should the Inverclyde taxpayer pay for a reception to honour a company that flung 3,000 people onto the dole?
I absolve McCormick from culpability on the basis that he is a simpleton who's intellect cannot cope with anything more than three letter acronyms.
The founders of IBM must be spinning in their graves over what these, 'businessmen' have done to the company.
I don't know how many people they still employ in Greenock but you can bet that it's little more than half a dozen superclerks and a Penguin biscuit.
Own goal Labour Party, own bloody goal!!!!!!
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Post by samfregreenock on Mar 19, 2012 15:40:02 GMT 1
I am absolutely stunned by this. What IBM? Why should the Inverclyde taxpayer pay for a reception to honour a company that flung 3,000 people onto the dole? I absolve McCormick from culpability on the basis that he is a simpleton who's intellect cannot cope with anything more than three letter acronyms. The founders of IBM must be spinning in their graves over what these, 'businessmen' have done to the company. I don't know how many people they still employ in Greenock but you can bet that it's little more than half a dozen superclerks and a Penguin biscuit. Own goal Labour Party, own bloody goal!!!!!! Its a good few hundred still employed there, although not in manufacturing. Wonder if they'll be celebrating IBM's support of the Nazis in WW2? |
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Post by tiddles on Mar 19, 2012 15:55:13 GMT 1
Of the few hundred, how many actually work for IBM and how many are from foreign countries ? Why should we pay to celebrate the centenary of an outfit that shafted the community. I have friends who are former IBM employees who are currently in the middle of litigation over the apparent, 'mismanagement' of the pension fund.
And yes, Watson and Henry Ford were ardent NAZIs and it was no accident that Hitler kept his hands off any offices and factories belonging to IBM and Ford.
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Post by samfregreenock on Mar 19, 2012 16:57:24 GMT 1
Of the few hundred, how many actually work for IBM and how many are from foreign countries ? Why should we pay to celebrate the centenary of an outfit that shafted the community. I have friends who are former IBM employees who are currently in the middle of litigation over the apparent, 'mismanagement' of the pension fund. And yes, Watson and Henry Ford were ardent NAZIs and it was no accident that Hitler kept his hands off any offices and factories belonging to IBM and Ford. same with general motors too It is indeed many hundreds, most involved in the support centre. But IBM global services division has hundreds of folk working there too, in fact greenock is a hub for their BPO (business process outsourcing). They also have a leveraged datacentre running too. I remember saint ( or is it blessed) davy cairns writing a letter to IBM on the subject of their pensions - I take it they told him to fekk aff - surprising that as apparently saint david cairns could walk on water, turn pish intae wine, etc etc |
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Post by tiddles on Mar 19, 2012 17:19:11 GMT 1
I'm surprised that Cairns wrote a letter to anybody. He was normally too busy sniffing about Bliar's arse.
Re the beatitude, I hear there are folks who are claiming to have recovered from severe haemorrhoids thanks to prayers to Cairns. Canonisation won't be long in coming. My goodness, to think I touched his hand...oh praise be, I shall be saved!!!!!
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Post by samfregreenock on Mar 19, 2012 17:35:25 GMT 1
I'm surprised that Cairns wrote a letter to anybody. He was normally too busy sniffing about Bliar's arse. Re the beatitude, I hear there are folks who are claiming to have recovered from severe haemorrhoids thanks to prayers to Cairns. Canonisation won't be long in coming. My goodness, to think I touched his hand...oh praise be, I shall be saved!!!!! he done a good job of turning oor money into Air Miles, so good in fact it paid for him ad his bidey-in to go to Miami furra couple of weeks |
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Post by tiddles on Mar 19, 2012 19:59:22 GMT 1
The South Beach no doubt
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Post by samfregreenock on Mar 19, 2012 20:11:38 GMT 1
Izzat not one of these celeb diets?  |
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Post by tiddles on Mar 19, 2012 22:02:33 GMT 1
I am reliably informed that the South Beach at Miami is the place to be seen and the place to make, new 'friends'
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Post by samfregreenock on Mar 19, 2012 23:08:51 GMT 1
I am reliably informed that the South Beach at Miami is the place to be seen and the place to make, new 'friends'Ah I see............ Puts CSI Miami in a whole new context...... |
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Post by rod2mc on Mar 20, 2012 13:20:58 GMT 1
TBF to IBM, they seen what was coming and were required to resturcture and look at their business model again if they were to survive. IBM are now in the best position they have been for years, the only thing that pisses me off that they could have maybe made Greenock part of their restructuring plans, but hey ho.
One should also not forget, that the fulltimers at IBM who were locals, didnt do the temp workforce any favours and in some cases actually went against their temp colleuages, they looked after No.1 and fecked everyone else over. A bit like Donkey in the yards you might say.
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Post by tiddles on Mar 20, 2012 16:22:18 GMT 1
And some displayed an arrogance that was breathtaking in the extreme
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