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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  • XEAL@lemm.eeEnglish
    591·
    10 months ago

    No even IBM… this is why I don’t want to strive at work anymore.

    • witty_username@feddit.nlEnglish
      511·
      10 months ago

      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·
        10 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.

        • aname@lemmy.oneEnglish
          104·
          10 months ago

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

          • dustyData@lemmy.worldEnglish
            61·
            10 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.

            • aname@lemmy.oneEnglish
              7·
              10 months ago

              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·
              10 months ago

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

          • XEAL@lemm.eeEnglish
            52·
            10 months ago

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

            • aname@lemmy.oneEnglish
              5·
              10 months ago

              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·
                10 months ago

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

                • aname@lemmy.oneEnglish
                  11·
                  10 months ago

                  That just means more than one people jump to conclusions

          • captainlezbian@lemmy.worldEnglish
            3·
            10 months ago

            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·
              10 months ago

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

          • Tja@programming.devEnglish
            1·
            10 months ago

            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·
        10 months ago

        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·
        10 months ago

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

        • BearOfaTime@lemm.eeEnglish
          31·
          10 months ago

          They went shitty decades ago.

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

    • henfredemars@infosec.pubEnglish
      26·
      10 months ago

      I do what I’m paid to do and not an ounce more, unless I’m doing it entirely for myself with no expectation of any compensation or favor.

      I value my time and I don’t work for free. To do otherwise, I think, is self-disrespecting.

      • XEAL@lemm.eeEnglish
        13·
        10 months ago

        On a previous job, two people and I (all subcontracted) raised up the IT support department of a company from what was barebones. AD, Azure, Intune, package deployment, ticketing and inventorying software, automations and more. We made a great team.

        After a year and a half we realized they wanted to implement and external L1 support team that is still to this day a bunch of incompetent idiots. On top of that, the company merged with them part of another company, including IT personnel that automatically became staff members without any effort or merits, while we remained subcontracted.

        From the tree people team, the coordinator and I left, while the remaining person is still stuck there, because she’s on her 50’s and it’s more complicated for her to find another job, but she’s a person who strives and knows her shit around.

        TL;DR: I’m not even talking about going the extra mile or working for free, I’m talking about putting effort on the job you’re paid to do just to be spit in the face in exchange. I’ve reached a new point where IDGAF if I’m slacking all day at work as long as I don’t get in trouble or fired. The burnout is real.

      • captainlezbian@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        10 months ago

        Hey, I also do things that will look good on my resume. Also enough to not be bored if needed. There’s no spite in my approach, just an understanding that they’ve got theirs and I’ve got mine. If we were union or I was rewarded for excellence I’d put in more effort, but also I’m not going to exhaust or stress myself for a job.

    • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.worldEnglish
      41·
      10 months ago

      At work and at home. IBM has a history of making their employees sign contracts that state that anything their employees invent at home in their own free time, is the property of IBM