IBM layoffs 2009

IBM employees get another dose of bad news today as word got out that there would be in excess of 2800 jobs terminated. It is estemated that there have now been over 4000 layoffs by the company as of late. The company is being very secrative about the job terminations but the most recent layoffs seem to be in the research development sales distribution and systems technology departments even though IBM says they are not targeting any particular department. There is so much talk and tension about the layoffs that the Alliance union site actually shut down from an excess of online traffic.