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I know a couple of people who are in the process of riding companies down, so to speak. They’re pretty close to retirement (if not already able to retire), they
by mceldeen 6y ago
I know a couple of people who are in the process of riding companies down, so to speak. They’re pretty close to retirement (if not already able to retire), they like their coworkers, and are comfortable where they’re at. They’re happy to man the ship as it slowly sinks. This might be the case for a good many IBM’ers on the “underperforming “ side.
- jacquesm 6y agoThat's roughly how I feel at times about our society as a whole. We went up for 56 years and we've been going down for the last 19.
- WJW 6y agoWeirdly, I feel about the same but the downgoing part only started around 2015. We met once at a company you were doing due diligence at, so I happen to know that you are about 15 years older than me. Maybe it's just an age thing and we're getting grumpy? :) After all, complaining about the state of the world decaying goes back to at least the ancient Greeks.
- jacquesm 6y agoYes, but from the perspective of those Greeks they were dead on! But good point about grumpy old people :) Nice to meet you again, mail in profile.
- the-dude 6y agoWere you thinking about Plato or Socrates? Apparently, both didn't say this : https://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/05/01/misbehave/ https://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/05/01/misbehave/
- WJW 6y agoI was thinking of one of those, it's a shame they apparently did not say it. However, I recently learned that the Torah apparently also claims that each generation is more degenerate than the last so perhaps I can fall back onto that :)
- gowld 6y ago"over the hill" is a phrase for a reason.