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posted by Fnord666 on Wednesday November 30 2016, @07:22AM   Printer-friendly
from the what-does-watson-think dept.

The CEO of IBM wrote an open letter to Trump soon after the election. IBM had a long tradition of staying out of politics, but I don't see any way to interpret this letter that isn't some sort of endorsement of Trump's administration, partly because it barely alludes to the latest buzz-phrase "cognitive solutions in the cloud", At the optimistic end, maybe it's just saying IBM doesn't care as long as Trump lets the corporation make bigger profits, but at the pessimistic end it could be taken as a warning to IBM's employees and business partners to keep their mouths shut if they don't like the Donald.

Has your employer done anything along these lines? I'm guessing that Ginny Rometty's letter was emailed to all hands and posted on the intranet, as well as the public posting at https://www.ibm.com/blogs/policy/ibm-ceo-ginni-romettys-letter-u-s-president-elect/ for everyone. Can anyone inside IBM confirm? If you've gotten something along these lines from your employer, do you care to speculate about why? Or even say how it made you feel?


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  • (Score: 1) by khallow on Wednesday November 30 2016, @09:15AM

    by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday November 30 2016, @09:15AM (#434845) Journal

    So I'm taking that to mean your own employer hasn't said anything about the election? Do you have any idea which way your boss feels about the election, or is your office that free of politics?

    Why ask? An easy way for an employer to sow discord in the workplace is to publicly take a side. And of course, we can't characterize all employers from knowing the leanings of jimshatt's employer and boss(es).

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 30 2016, @01:29PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 30 2016, @01:29PM (#434889)

    > An easy way for an employer to sow discord in the workplace is to publicly take a side.

    Which happens all the time. Corporations regularly lobby their own employees to support candidates. Its kind of gross actually.

    • (Score: 1) by khallow on Wednesday November 30 2016, @03:29PM

      by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday November 30 2016, @03:29PM (#434933) Journal
      And which also doesn't happen all the time. Far more corporations don't do that precisely because it causes trouble.
      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 30 2016, @06:57PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 30 2016, @06:57PM (#435057)

        khallow, hey it's me the guy who you met at the slashdot meet up--we hung out in vancouver i think later? can u drop me a line at scybert at gmail dot com ? be nice to catch up.

    • (Score: 2, Insightful) by shanen on Wednesday November 30 2016, @10:52PM

      by shanen (6084) on Wednesday November 30 2016, @10:52PM (#435182) Journal

      Generally I ignore ACs, but I understand in this case. Also, I have a relevant personal example to report:

      In 1988 I was working for AMD, whose honcho was a big supporter of Poppy Bush. In the period leading up to the election, everyone knew that the company was having problems and there were lots of rumors of layoffs. However, management assured everyone things were fine. As soon as the election was over and Poppy had won, then BOOM, the layoffs. (I actually survived that round, but better people were cut for the heinous crime of earning more money than I was making.)

      I think a lot of Trump's angry losers are going to be disappointed, but I predict they won't blame the Donald when they continue losing. Mexican and Muslims! Yeah, they did it!

      --
      #1 Freedom = (Meaningful - Coerced) Choice{5} ≠ (Beer^4 | Speech) and your negative mods prove you are a narrow prick.