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"Having IBM Next to Your Name is a Scarlet Letter"

posted by Roy Schestowitz on May 12, 2024

An hour ago: (very busy thread, 23 replies in 2 days)

Still looking after fifteen months

Just motivated not to work

THE screenshot at the top (message an hour old) and the video on the left relate to what we published hours ago about Red Hat. The forums emphasise that many IBM workers only spend a few hours a week actually working (lack of motivation; see the clip from "Office Space") and morale at Red Hat is very low at the moment, not only because Red Hat reportedly explores "cost-cutting" as in layoffs.

The technology sector probably peaked in the 1990s. There's a lot to be said about dial-up's penetration into many homes, several innovations on the hardware and software side, and of course rising wages. Companies purchased servers (prior to the "clown computing" propaganda) and people carried around pagers rather than "smart" phones, so they could concentrate better and "disconnect".

The "old" tech world isn't coming back. It has evolved (or devolved, depending on whose perspective) to become about social control or oppression. I very recently spoke to people whom I know in the industry and who told me they weren't happy - and that's putting it mildly. They want to leave, but they can't quite convince themselves to actually do it.

The golden days of Computer Science (when coders actually possessed the skills of the trade; no vanity GitHub pages [1, 2]) are long over. If you wish to be bossed by marketing charlatans, pathological liars and posers who name-drop buzzwords (and generally promote terrible things, imposing them on you), that's your choice. The Linux Foundation is still full of people like these; some of them are salaried by Microsoft to badmouth Linux from within the Linux Foundation.

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