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I worked at IBM years back. If there's one thing that binds current and former employees together it was the shared stitch & bitch about the company's way of do
by BeefWellington 4y ago
I worked at IBM years back. If there's one thing that binds current and former employees together it was the shared stitch & bitch about the company's way of doing things.
That would frequently happen in large public slack channels and to my knowledge (first and second hand) nobody was ever punished for that kind of talk. However, that was internal, between employees. Often it was about frustrations with how the company was run, sometimes using satire.
If that sort of thing happened in front of a client (which I never saw personally), I firmly believe that person would rightly be shown the door. It's one thing to complain about your company's problems internally, it's another to publish them.
- tutorialmanager 4y agoMy first job was at IBM in 1991 when the "Akers memo" came out. I was amazed by the internal discussion that ensued online and how open people were with complaints about the company.
- juliusgeo 4y agoI wasn’t even alive in 1991, but reading that memo sounds very familiar given the recent statements companies like Meta[1] have made in anticipation of recession. I wonder if Meta has internal discussion in the same way. [1] https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/01/technology/meta-facebook-mark-zuckerberg.html https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/01/technology/meta-facebook-...