All they seemed to do was make slides and go on meetings ... They were also clueless about how to deal with us ... Endless meetings scheduled into eternity ...

All they seemed to do was make slides and go on meetings ... They were also clueless about how to deal with us ... Endless meetings scheduled into eternity ... the same people going around and around not really getting much done So you're saying that on the basis of the above, you "understand" IBM's point of view that the way to fix this was to start firing the older workers? Because that's, like, obviously the root cause of this malaise, right?