Soulless then, even more so today. No pay rise for nearly 10 years, yet more pressure to outperform previous years performance. Ever increasing challenges and targets, whilst education has been eliminated. New products coming on stream from all directions, without a thought towards genuine skills development.
The company is in a mess, a deeper mess than many on the outside are aware of. IBM hides all this by re-inventing not itself, but the means, language, buzz words, of their announcements. Obviously working on the principle of ‘keep dodging, ducking, and diving’ never keep still long enough for anyone to latch onto a single item of concern.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
