POI
Last time I went to Germany on IBMs dime these were still posted (alas, without cats) here and there about town. I wonder if they still are?
(Source: imagesfromthefuture, via actiondirecte7)
How time flies.
““Every current and former Microsoft employee I interviewed—every one—cited stack ranking as the most destructive process inside of Microsoft, something that drove out untold numbers of employees,” Eichenwald writes. “If you were on a team of 10 people, you walked in the first day knowing that, no matter how good everyone was, 2 people were going to get a great review, 7 were going to get mediocre reviews, and 1 was going to get a terrible review,” says a former software developer. “It leads to employees focusing on competing with each other rather than competing with other companies.””
This is called PBC at IBM, for Personal Business Commitment, but it’s the same thing with the same result.
Use the cloud, they said. It’s safe, they said.
There, I finished.
Freaky.
This song seems appropriate today. My last day at IBM.
Lyrics:
Only one day is left
Only one day
We are leaving the others
We’re going away
(Source: Spotify)
When my Model M breaks down some time in the distant future it’s good to know there are still makers of real, mechanical monster keyboards.
Galactic Civilizations for OS/2. Shame I don’t have a diskette reader… (well, there’s also the fact that right now I don’t have an OS/2 or eComStation installation anyhwere either).
