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IBM scraps rewards program for staff inventions, wipes away cash points | Big Blue staffers aren’t pleased to lose out on potential bonuses::Big Blue staffers aren't pleased to lose out on potential bonuses

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[-] dustyData@lemmy.world 38 points 9 months ago

IBM is what a company that survived crossing to the other side of the enshittification fence looks like. They are profitable, for sure, but they have nothing of value to offer to an actual human being. They only speak corpo and their only semi-amiable relationships are with other corporate entities via contracts, negotiations, arbitration, and lawsuits. It's functionally and physically incapable of communicating, offering a product or relating with an average real person, for they haven't known what that is in at least three decades.

[-] lauha@lemmy.one 6 points 9 months ago

IBM has always been a business-to-business. Their name literally comes from International Business Machines.

[-] dustyData@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago

I suppose the several IBM PCs I owned in the 80s and 90s were all just hallucinations. Useful hallucinations though, they taught me to use DOS and to program in BASIC.

[-] lauha@lemmy.one 7 points 9 months ago

I don't think I claimed they don't do consumer stuff but business stuff has always been their core business.

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