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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

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[โ€“] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 34 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Since when are managers held accountable? Is this new?

[โ€“] Wojwo@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago

You know "accountability", it's when an executive fucks up and gets to retire early with a multimillion dollar golden parachute.