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IBM made this change last year. There was outcry from employees, but nothing changed.

• jobu 13y ago
  The change to the policy would have been understandable if Armstrong blamed it on the financial hit the company took for his $200 million blunder with Patch. He could have apologized and taken a pay cut himself, and most people would have been understanding and possibly even praised him. Blaming it on Obamacare is a pointless political statement, and publicly blaming it on sick babies means Armstrong is a sociopathic asshole.
  • dragonwriter 13y ago
    Both blamings probably stem from the common PR rule that any decisions which negatively impacts anyone must be portrayed as a necessity mandated by some external event or force so as to diminish the apparent responsibility of the actor who actually made the decision.