beginpanic

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by beginpanic 7y ago
A lot of the issues people see with remote work or in this case multiple jobs, I've already seen solved at IBM. IBM is something like 70% remote work for its 350,000 employees. Every problem anyone has seen with remote work, IBM has pr
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by beginpanic 9y ago
Everyone has choices to make. Martin could have easily not been an asshole to cancer patients or investors at his fund. You want to let him off the hook just because he said "yup I'm a dick" while he was making the choice t
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by beginpanic 11y ago
Unfortunately it won't happen. As an IBMer, I see how quickly IBM sheds anything that is not a top earner, and hardware (especially consumer hardware) will never be a top earner again. The recent partnership with Apple (replacing emplo
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by beginpanic 11y ago
I hear you on the support side. I used to work for a company that used a product that was bought by IBM. Before that, you could pick up the phone and talk to the lead developer. After, you opened a support ticket online and waited 24-48 hou
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by beginpanic 11y ago
The new Notes-based webmail is Verse. It's not horrible. It's not great. It's just bad in different ways than Notes was.
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by beginpanic 11y ago
As an IBMer, many of the complainers I've heard and much of the heartburn around layoffs come from outside of CAMSS. It's like folks at Apple complaining that the iPod team isn't treated as well as the iPad team. Of course, y
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by beginpanic 11y ago
Wonder when I will be upgraded to Libre Office then. We've definitely had OS and software updates since 2014...
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by beginpanic 11y ago
I had no idea IBM pulled the plug on OpenOffice either, because I'm sitting here with my IBM-issued Red Hat laptop and I'm doing project documentation in OpenOffice, which came pre-installed. I think what they mean is "IBM st