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by tivert 958 days ago
This is wonderful. Workers have it too easy.

Think of the poor shareholders. They need money too!

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The shareholders are poorer than they were 10 years ago. This company is an employment program for incompetent executives.
That talk Jobs did about businesses that fail because they promote sales and incompetence (because promoting competence leads to needing to fill roles).

IBM is a case study for that.

Also being a top heavy business with managers that protect their jobs through incredibly massive process (forget node_modules, IBM process is the only thing heavier than a black hole, in fact).

There was a time when we were 18 managers for 24 employees.

Well, at IBM, maybe they do.

Revenue is heading steadily down. Profit is down 50% over the past five years. All during a massive tech-fueled economic boom. What are they doing over there?! [valustox.com/IBM]

Ideally, all workers should be invested in their own company and a diversified set of other public companies. Most already are.

At the current rate, they're gunna need to find the next Red Hat (money spinner) to buy sooner rather than later.
Exactly finally someone thinking of the poor executives and shareholders. These lazy workers I remember back in the days of my youth when a man would work for 23 hours a day with the only break being the 3 minutes you'd have to fish the bodies out of the molten steel before it set.

Those were the days. remembers in Mr. Burns

Looking at the stock chart for IBM, I think someone should start thinking of them... But this is not likely move the needle.
Don't forget your </sarcasm> tag. A percent will always think this is serious. :)
I find it funny you think it is not serious.