Back in 2009 the state of Georgia outsourced all of its IT and telecom work to IBM. I was 6 weeks short of being vested in the state retirement system. So for the last 2 years I have been managing servers for IBM. This past Monday as I was driving back from a from the middle of nowhere after fixing a server my boss gives me a call. Well turns out that IBM is moving any work that can be done remotely to Missouri Colorado and India. No we do not get the chance to move, we get a thanks for training the folks at these call centers. Over a third of the old state employees were let go.
They would like for me to work until the 28th (and please keep doing as good a job as you were). No we can’t let you work until the 30th, because then we would have to pay another week of severance pay and the profit sharing bonus for this year.
So if you know anyone looking for IT help between August, Ga. And Columbia, SC please let me know.
And as one of the ladies that got and had been doing the same job for 27 years said F…. IBM.
