IBM ends inventor reward program, cancels points for patents
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Big Blue staffers aren't pleased to lose out on potential bonuses

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  • witty_username@feddit.nlEnglish
    511·
    11 个月前

    What do you mean by that? Aren’t IBM the gleaming gold standard of ruining your market dominance with idiotic management practices and investor-driven shortsightedness?
    If anything, I am surprised they still had schemes that incentivise employees by distributing some form of equity

    • dustyData@lemmy.worldEnglish
      391·
      11 个月前

      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.

      • aname@lemmy.oneEnglish
        104·
        11 个月前

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

        • dustyData@lemmy.worldEnglish
          61·
          11 个月前

          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.

          • aname@lemmy.oneEnglish
            7·
            11 个月前

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

          • BearOfaTime@lemm.eeEnglish
            31·
            11 个月前

            IBM wasn’t interested in PCs, and they were already enshittifyjng by then.

        • captainlezbian@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          11 个月前

          They began that way, then they branched into personal computation when that became a thing. Then they took a machine gun to their feet in that market

          • phillaholic@lemm.eeEnglish
            1·
            11 个月前

            It’s was too much hassle for too little profit. Their bread and butter is having regular people not remember they still exist.

        • XEAL@lemm.eeEnglish
          52·
          11 个月前

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

          • aname@lemmy.oneEnglish
            5·
            11 个月前

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

            • XEAL@lemm.eeEnglish
              1·
              11 个月前

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

              • aname@lemmy.oneEnglish
                11·
                11 个月前

                That just means more than one people jump to conclusions

        • Tja@programming.devEnglish
          1·
          11 个月前

          Exactly this. The effort of selling one z Series is not one million times higher than selling a laptop, but the profit is.

    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      11 个月前

      Aren’t IBM the gleaming gold standard of ruining your market dominance with idiotic management practices and investor-driven shortsightedness?

      Honestly, when I think “IBM”, I can’t help but think of the company that built the industrial accounting machines for the Nazis back in the 1930s.

    • XEAL@lemm.eeEnglish
      2·
      11 个月前

      I expected more from a renowned company, rookie mistake I guess.

      • BearOfaTime@lemm.eeEnglish
        31·
        11 个月前

        They went shitty decades ago.

        I’d say at best the PC wars is a good demarcation, maybe even before then.