Rose@piefed.social to Programmer Humor@programming.devEnglish · 1 month agoAncient IBM wisdom (from 1979) that the bosses just straight up promptly forgotmedia.piefed.socialimagemessage-square22linkfedilinkarrow-up123arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up123arrow-down1imageAncient IBM wisdom (from 1979) that the bosses just straight up promptly forgotmedia.piefed.socialRose@piefed.social to Programmer Humor@programming.devEnglish · 1 month agomessage-square22linkfedilinkfile-text
minus-squarethinkercharmercoderfarmer@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-21 month agoThis 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.
minus-squareFrezik@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 month ago“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.
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.
“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.