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Ancient IBM wisdom (from 1979) that the bosses just straight up promptly forgot (media.piefed.social)
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Apparently a page from an internal IBM training manual. Some further attempts at source it

Ancient IBM wisdom (from 1979) that the bosses just straight up promptly forgot
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[–] 80 points 1 year ago (13 children)

Ah, from back when people still had critical thinking faculties in good working order.

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  • [–] 50 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    Back when tech is still dominated by hippies and not fascists.

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  • [–] 27 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

    This is as good an excuse as any to break out the ol' IBM corporate songbook

    Tech has always been suits at the top, hippies at best an annoying necessity because they know how to actually operate the machine.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    "Back in the day", IBM was all suits the entire way up and down the ladder. They were considered the company for 1960/70s button down dress code.

    The hippie types were at MIT hacking on DEC machines.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    I think that's broadly true, but just because you work somewhere as oppressive as IBM doesn't mean you don't long to breathe the free air. I like to imagine some of the contributors to the IBM songbook felt trapped in their day job and grabbed at that as the only available creative outlet, and they had their own magnum opus that they were going to publish just as soon as they felt safe enough to take the leap. I can't find any credits for the songs so maybe they did.

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  • [+] 0 points 1 year ago (3 children)
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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    That'd be my parents who are dead and consequently not present, but thanks for bringing that up whilst completely stumping me with your eloquent, constructive and incisive counterargument that in no way proves my point.

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