IBM UK told staff on March 1 that the annual salary review dur this month had been put on hold, probably until the end of the year – but that is only one of the indignities suffered by the company’s loyal staffers this recession, and the 1,000 top salesmen that won the trip to the Club Mediterranee in Turkey are feeling particularly aggrieved: thanks to the machinations of Saddam Hussein, Turkey was thought to be a little too hot this year so the even was switched to a weekend in a rather less exotic location – bracing London; then the Irish Republican Army clumsily attempted to total John Major and his cabinet, and although the effort was a miserable failure, it was sufficient excuse to shelve the whole thing altogether – ah well, working for IBM is its own reward.
