and with them, the collective corporate memory...Ugh! I was a contractor at IBM in Longmont, CO for four long years...that was the worst place I ever worked.
At 58 he was "to old".
SSDD.
How many H1-B visa holders were there under the millenials?
and with them, the collective corporate memory...One issue a young relative tells me is that in both his current and former work places the older guys are entrenched in legacy software strongholds and fight tooth and nail against adopting new tech that will improve productivity as it would end their importance in being the only ones who know how to keep things running at the legacy level.
ANYBODY here recall how the IBM PC came about?
That’s right ... IT WASN’T stodgy old staid New York-based IBM that developed it, it was the creation of a new startup unit ...
ANYBODY have any ideas why?
HP tried this under Carly.
It nearly sunk the company and frankly it will never come back.
Those who have the skills refuse to work for HP.
It will follow Tectronix into oblivion in another 20 years.
Yep. My uncle used to build robots for IBM. He would talk about the older guys being let go or forced into retirement, until eventually he was put in a similar position. He had been planning on retiring anyway, but even so, they did away with the older workers who were being paid more in order to hire younger people and pay them less, on top of providing fewer perks I’d imagine.
ML/NJ
IBM fired tons of experienced employees during all the periodic bloodlettings that I recall.
Our family had a consulting business and were VARs for a time. VAR reltionship was pushed as a way to offload employees.
The IBMers had a hard time taking direction from the non IBMers IIRC
In the eighties we had a hard time getting house and other property loans because of consultant status. Banks wanted that big name company as employer.
In the early 90s there was another purge as the economy tanked and all the banks were thrilled to get consultants to loan money to for as one explained, you folks have many income streams, and we did.
A job at IBM used to be for life.
“...and not like “an old fuddy duddy organization.”
Stuff it buddy. It’s old farts like me that brought IBM through it’s glory days of the 60’s.