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| I work for IBM at home and this seems kinda reasonable to me.
Sure I'd like to have my $65/month for 18/1.5 (U-verse Max) continue to be reimbursed.
But, frankly, my wife and I use it for a lot of other things too. And, I suspect, most IBM households will continue to have broadband access whether IBM reimburses it or not.
This reimbursement is really a holdover from the old days when there were no ISPs and no public Internet, and IBM provided "home terminals" and dial-up phone access to work so you could do email/calendar or log into a development system. (IBM was, I think, the first company to do online mail/calendar/IM, starting back in the late 70s on mainframes). This was a work-only connection, there was no utility in it for your personal life, and the family certainly had no use for it.
And, if IBM can save some money, they'll be able to be more profitable, the stock will go up, and maybe I'll continue to be employed!
By the way, my understanding is that if an employee wants to switch/downgrade/cancel their service because of lack of reimbursement, IBM will reimburse for termination fees. | |
|  | | Re: I work for IBM at home Dear Brother,
The stock went up before and after they released 5000 US, maybe due to SUN purchase talk.
You could barely get a pencil in BOND for the last 2 quarters.
Could another Op expenses savings help? Sure, Maybe.
But it isn't going to make a real dent.
And the fair use you reference is the nature of the service technology. You could order another line or cable, if it is a big deal.
If you have a main office desk/phone/network and you work from home part-time or twice a week, then yeah pay for it yourself.
But if your mobile office is your only "point of presence" or your job has you "on call" and they give you a cell phone, well...
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| | | Until your job is outsourced to a BRIC country 
Enjoy it while you can..IBM's motives are well known
about American workers and their overall objectives. | |
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| Re: I work for IBM at home said by fldiver2009 :Until your job is outsourced to a BRIC country Enjoy it while you can..IBM's motives are well known about American workers and their overall objectives. IBM's a global company, not an American company. Check the annual report. More employees, more revenue, more profit outside the USA than inside. Check the way it's organized. Able to move in an agile way across boundaries to go after opportunities to get more efficient and sell more. No deep, dark secret here, it's right up front as an objective.
Why should IBM be saddled with the requirement to favor Americans for jobs, if that's not the most efficient thing to do globally? | |
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00001 | Re: I work for IBM at home said by MyDogHsFleas:said by fldiver2009 :Until your job is outsourced to a BRIC country Enjoy it while you can..IBM's motives are well known about American workers and their overall objectives. IBM's a global company, not an American company. Check the annual report. More employees, more revenue, more profit outside the USA than inside. Check the way it's organized. Able to move in an agile way across boundaries to go after opportunities to get more efficient and sell more. No deep, dark secret here, it's right up front as an objective. Why should IBM be saddled with the requirement to favor Americans for jobs, if that's not the most efficient thing to do globally? You are correct; IBM is a global company. With that in mind, why should IBM be saddled with paying HIGH SALARIES; HEALTH CARE or contribute to any form of RETIREMENT in the US when they can get someone with similar skills in a BRIC country for a fraction of the cost; no health care or retirement benefit?
For that matter, why should IBM be saddled with having any jobs in America?
I say Congress should craft a law taxing IBM; all of it's resources, incomes; properties in every world geography for the United States. The United States should have every right to tax those incomes. The United States certainly needs the income for the taxes.
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1 edit | Re: I work for IBM at home said by BarneyBadAss:You are correct; IBM is a global company. With that in mind, why should IBM be saddled with paying HIGH SALARIES; HEALTH CARE or contribute to any form of RETIREMENT in the US when they can get someone with similar skills in a BRIC country for a fraction of the cost; no health care or retirement benefit? I believe you're just restating my question.
For that matter, why should IBM be saddled with having any jobs in America?
It's not that the USA is a small market and IBM can just ignore it.
I say Congress should craft a law taxing IBM; all of it's resources, incomes; properties in every world geography for the United States. The United States should have every right to tax those incomes. The United States certainly needs the income for the taxes.
What are you talking about? Maybe you should read the annual report or do some other research. IBM, and all other multinational corporations based in the USA, already pays US corporate tax on profit earned outside the USA, when those profits are "repatriated", i.e. brought back to the USA for use here (investing in the business, hiring new employees, returning to the shareholders as dividends, etc.).
Furthermore, if you do a little research, you will discover that the USA has one of the highest corporate tax rates in the world. This actually discourages companies like IBM from repatriating their earnings and using them to do things like create new jobs. Instead, a lot of this money is staying overseas and being reinvested there.
The Obama administration and the Democratic Congress are probably going to make this worse by raising the effective corporate tax rates here.
Actions have consequences. I don't want to see the USA move towards being a Euro-Socialist type of country like France or Sweden where the government basically runs the economy, businesses are essentially milked as cash cows for the employees, and unemployment is 2-3x what it is here in the USA even when it's bad here. That is not a good recipe for a vibrant, growing, democratic society. It's a recipe for class warfare, stagnation, and eventual descent into a second class nation. | |
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1 edit | Re: I work for IBM at home I want to see something like a 99% tax on all American companies and every income regardless of where it's earned (whether or not the money ever gets back into the United States.)
Per edit let me rephrase the above to say;
I want to see something like a 99% tax on all American companies assets real or anticipated and every income regardless of where it's earned
I also want to see a 98.5% tax on personal income.
Per edit let me rephrase the above to say;
I want to see a 98.5% tax on any amount of money or asset any individual ever has. So if at some point in time of they year you have 100.00 you get taxed $98.50 for having a hundred dollars. So if someone gives you 10.00 you should pay 9.85 in taxes on the gift!
How else can we distribute the wealth from those who have it to those who don't?
How else can we pay for all the illegal people's health care?
The only way to "Spread the wealth" is to tax everyone and everything else out of existance!
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