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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 10 months ago (11 children)

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 10 months ago (10 children)

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

[–] XEAL@lemm.ee 3 points 10 months ago (3 children)

A company is not necessarily limited to the activities implied by its name.

[–] lauha@lemmy.one 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Did I say that? OP complained that IBM has become so business oriented recently, but that has always been its core business.

[–] XEAL@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It's what it sounded like and I'm not the only guy who saw it that way ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[–] lauha@lemmy.one 0 points 10 months ago

That just means more than one people jump to conclusions

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