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At IBM I got "called on the carpet" to the Director's office because I was seen in the hallway without my jacket. (1978) Back in the past I worked at Franklin
by daly 10y ago
At IBM I got "called on the carpet" to the Director's office because I was seen in the hallway without my jacket. (1978)
Back in the past I worked at Franklin Lakes, the IBM Office Products Division headquarters. I was a VM/360 Systems Programmer. I printed out a "core dump" of memory and since the printer was just down the hall I walked out of my office, picked it up, and returned. Someone saw me, called my manager, who passed it up the hierarchy as an "infraction"... and I ended up getting chewed out by the Director (3 levels up the management chain).
Office Products sold typewriters, paper, and punched cards. Our typewriter repair persons (all male) wore suits and wing-tip shoes to service your typewriter.
Times have changed.
- partisan 10y agoI sympathize with you. I am in my late 30s so I didn't experience that level of inanity, but I did work somewhere where I had to carry a pager. I let the battery die though not on purpose. I was terrified the third time it happened. They never really mentioned it. They just took me out of the rotation and gave me a supervisory role over the other people in my team who had been there for many years and who did answer their late night pages. This was when I knew it was time to leave that job.
- schoen 10y agoI got in trouble as an intern at an investment bank between high school and college because I was seen wearing sneakers (with a suit). My direct boss had to take me out shopping for some fancier shoes, which was something of a challenge because I don't wear leather. I really have to hand it to that boss.