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> IBM has very strict rules about anyone (below a certain but unspecified level!) offering or accepting anything at all. IBM employees you might meet are not al
by burntoutfire 5y ago
> IBM has very strict rules about anyone (below a certain but unspecified level!) offering or accepting anything at all. IBM employees you might meet are not allowed to so much as buy or accept lunch at a conference.
...in the US. In Poland IBM was caught bribing a government official a couple years ago.
- ncmncm 5y agoAh, but was it by anyone you might meet? Or someone above that certain level?
- burntoutfire 5y agoIt was a local "sales director" (which in many companies is a title given to pretty much everyone doing enterprise sales).
- ncmncm 5y agoNot everybody follows the rules. Not everybody who breaks them gets caught.