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| schestowitz[TR2] | <admfubar> i'm wondering how much longer adobe will be around, they've lost to much stock value the past few years. something around 66%. and the latest scuttlebutt about remaking file formats to better "ai" to absorb the data from, could make PDF's irrelevant. | Jun 17 05:27 |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1ktyjvb8p | Jun 17 06:12 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes- ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1ktyjvb8p ) | Jun 17 06:12 | |
| schestowitz[TR2] | "who the f--k are you to tell anyone to go and find another job on this board ? Who died and made you God ? If the IBM management cannot manage their employees, it is their own fault. | Jun 17 06:12 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Why don't you go and find a different site to wallow in ? Although your buddies Alvind, Robbie the Hood and Krabanaugh might not like it, the US allows for free speech. If you don't like it, don't do bad things and then ask for comments to be removed - that is censorship. It works both ways. | Jun 17 06:12 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | 8 hours ago by Anonymous | Jun 17 06:12 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | | 8 reactions (+8/-0) | Reply | Jun 17 06:12 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Post ID: @wd+1ktyjvb8p | Jun 17 06:12 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | +5 | Jun 17 06:12 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | @rt would you rather we call you "toad in the hole" or just "toadface" ? Don't you respect Alvind any more since he has Gorilla Glue stuck to his azz as Chairman ? | Jun 17 06:12 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Or are you busy indulging in the nefarious tastes of "Robbie the Hood" as in the kneel and deliver position ? Or preparing for dropping the soap on a rope trick in the communal showers ? | Jun 17 06:12 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Or are you brown nosing again with Krabanaugh and Joanne Wrong ? | Jun 17 06:12 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | " | Jun 17 06:12 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1ktt6x93e | Jun 17 06:13 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes- ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1ktt6x93e ) | Jun 17 06:13 | |
| schestowitz[TR2] | "disagree hard. Experience here seems to equal entitlement, flat out refusal to go to work, time theft while "working" but out shopping, and demanding pay to literally di nothing. | Jun 17 06:13 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Younger are way better. Sorry!" | Jun 17 06:13 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | "" | Jun 17 06:14 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | after working few years at IBM, I discovered that advancement is is limited to some ethnic groups (white Anglo-saxon, Indian, some blacks and Hispanics (the stupid one, Yes man ...). | Jun 17 06:14 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Being 40+, I had few choices left. Find another job (start from the beginning) or adjust my behavior. | Jun 17 06:14 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | I decided for the latter, While, I mostly fake doing any meaningful work for IBM, I became a trader while being at the office at IBM. | Jun 17 06:14 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | It is working very well, I have been making more money on the side, more than the IBM salary. I gave up on the career advancement at IBM. I advance my finance using IBM infrastructure. | Jun 17 06:14 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Thank you IBM. | Jun 17 06:14 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | 14 hours ago by Anonymous | Jun 17 06:14 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | | 2 reactions (+2/-0) | Reply | Jun 17 06:14 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Post ID: @12y+1ktt6x93e | Jun 17 06:14 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | +2 | Jun 17 06:14 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | @12a As @12b wrote, how are they gonna find out? I write on my personal laptop, which I position next to my work laptop, which in turn has automated cr-p running to make it look like I'm busy. I have a complete outline and three chapters written already. By the time IBM finds out, or if, I'll be making royalties off the book and movie. A total parody of IBM to boot. You're gonna be powerful, but I'm gonna be famous. And I did it al | Jun 17 06:14 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | l on IBM time. LOL! | Jun 17 06:14 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | 16 hours ago by Anonymous | Jun 17 06:14 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | | 4 reactions (+3/-1) | Reply | Jun 17 06:14 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Post ID: @12h+1ktt6x93e | Jun 17 06:14 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | +2 | Jun 17 06:14 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | @129 the younger are only better until they learn the tricks from the experienced ones. Then, they will follow the same or similar strategy and there is nothing that you or your master Arvind can do to stop them. Everyone is not d-mb and naive. If things were different (People were naive and d-mb), IBM's share price today would be around $500+ a share, based on what some of the ignorant analysts write. But is it there today ? NO. W | Jun 17 06:14 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | ill it be there in the next 30 or even 90 days ? Who knows ? You can fool some of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all of the time. Certainly not on the hype coming from Quantum computing. It certainly didn't work for the IBM Cloud. Or the ridiculous IBM Badges paraded around. | Jun 17 06:14 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | 16 hours ago by Anonymous | Jun 17 06:14 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | | 4 reactions (+3/-1) | Reply | Jun 17 06:14 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Post ID: @12e+1ktt6x93e | Jun 17 06:14 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | +1 | Jun 17 06:14 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | @12a hope they sue for time theft ?? how is IBM gonna find out ? This is not some archaic assembly line of the 1900s with time card punches. Best they can do is fire someone but they can't sue anyone for the sort of trash you're talking about. If they did that, they should also sue a lot of their executives for fraud and failure to keep to the IBM Business Conduct Guidelines too. Start with the lies, fake promises and false marketi | Jun 17 06:14 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | ng statements. But we know Corporate IBM is full of hypocrisy, so that will never happen. LOL | Jun 17 06:14 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | " | Jun 17 06:14 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <IsambardPrince> The xbox developer kit was basically just a PC. | Jun 17 06:16 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <IsambardPrince> Because that's the hardware they used for the original xbox. | Jun 17 06:16 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <IsambardPrince> They had Intel quickly throw together a CPU that was somewhere between a Celeron (Coppermine) and a Pentium 3. | Jun 17 06:16 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <IsambardPrince> They used an Nvidia GPU and I think Seagate hard drives. | Jun 17 06:16 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <IsambardPrince> It was off the shelf stuff. | Jun 17 06:16 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <IsambardPrince> schestowitz-pi: Bad bosses end up everywhere. They're a huge drain on the company. | Jun 17 06:16 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <IsambardPrince> Even in dead end jobs, they pay this guy to come up to the wrong person and say "work faster". That's almost his entire function. | Jun 17 06:16 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <schestowitz-pi> yes | Jun 17 06:16 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <IsambardPrince> Like when I was working on an assembly line in 2004. | Jun 17 06:16 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <IsambardPrince> I had a boss named Scott. | Jun 17 06:16 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <IsambardPrince> He came to me, my station was at the end of the line, and he said "You need to work faster, we're not hitting our numbers." | Jun 17 06:16 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <IsambardPrince> I said, "How do I do that if they're not sending me enough things?" | Jun 17 06:16 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <IsambardPrince> He looked at me and said "You work faster." | Jun 17 06:16 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <IsambardPrince> And I swear to god this happened. | Jun 17 06:16 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <IsambardPrince> When I worked at Walmart in Muncie, Indiana, they never passed over a chance to tell us how little they thought of us. We'd get a coffee machine in the breakroom that didn't work because they'd pull the cheapest one off the sales floor. | Jun 17 06:16 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <IsambardPrince> Or a microwave that couldn't even make one of those little Michelena's dinners warm before the end of your break. | Jun 17 06:16 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <IsambardPrince> The way the managers saw it, just put the $20 microwave in there and make everyone fight over one underpowered microwave. | Jun 17 06:16 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <IsambardPrince> :) | Jun 17 06:16 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <IsambardPrince> Then, worse than the bosses, they have the workplace rat. | Jun 17 06:16 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <schestowitz-pi> work faster = PRETEND to be busy | Jun 17 06:16 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <IsambardPrince> I remember Scott pretty well because he reminded me of Gonad the Barbarian. | Jun 17 07:41 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <IsambardPrince> schestowitz-pi: Also, on the point of it taking years for even the most mismanaged companies to die, that's what I saw with RCA. | Jun 17 07:41 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <IsambardPrince> They had that VideoDisc system that flopped so hard in the early 80s that it nearly bankrupted the company. | Jun 17 07:41 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <IsambardPrince> They got bought out by GE, which spun off Consumer Electronics onto Thomson, a French company, who ran it into the ground over the next 20 years or so. | Jun 17 07:41 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <IsambardPrince> It takes established organizations a long time to die sometimes even with really bad managers. | Jun 17 07:41 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <IsambardPrince> They got into DVD players and stuff like that eventually, all made in Mexico, not particularly well made. | Jun 17 07:41 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <IsambardPrince> Even at the time they were putting out DVD players that cost $300, and even for that price (in 1998), they had glaring defects like an MPEG-2 decoder that did not accurately decode MPEG-2 streams and caused weird errors. | Jun 17 07:41 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <IsambardPrince> schestowitz-pi: Meanwhile while the landlord sent me threatening texts in the middle of the night regarding a stereo at super low volume, there are people yelling and screaming in the apartments they also own across the street. | Jun 17 07:41 |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | "Wow! 115 years old! Happy birthday IBM! | Jun 17 19:22 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Hey! Remember that time when one of your biggest clients, Adolf Hitler, was using your products and services to murder millions and run concentration camps? | Jun 17 19:22 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | And remember how you continued doing business with Hitler, after the USA entered WWII, but you hid the money Hitler gave you in Swiss bank accounts? | Jun 17 19:22 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | And Hitler appreciated your help so much that he gave your CEO a medal? | Jun 17 19:22 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Reminiscing on birthdays is fun!" | Jun 17 19:22 |
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