IBM’s job cuts make their way to the U.S.

A number of IBMers are trying on the new identity of “ex-IBMers” today as the company’s 2014 downsizing has come to pass. IBM won’t say how many people. And you can’t count it up because the company has, for the first time in years, eliminated a document that was part of packages given to terminated employees, claiming “privacy,” which a workers’ group leader called “absurd.” The cuts hit Dutchess County and sites across the United States, say people who spoke with the Poughkeepsie Journal or with the workers’ group, Alliance@IBM.