IBM has been reorg-ing itself to death for 15 years (that I'm aware of, probably more). The IBMers I know used to think they were just trying to downplay the

IBM has been reorg-ing itself to death for 15 years (that I'm aware of, probably more). The IBMers I know used to think they were just trying to downplay the perception of downsizing by doing it in rounds and under other organizational shifts. It's become clear that the company has no direction. The only thing management knows how to do is rearrange the deckchairs on the titanic, so they'll just continue doing that until they sink. No where is this more clear than in the withered husks of plants still online because somewhere in shutting them down someone realized "oh yeah, this shit makes us money." And keeping the plant operational is contacted out at exorbitant rates, sometimes to the exact same people laid off from that position at that location over a decade ago.