Stories
Slash Boxes
Comments

SoylentNews is people

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?


Original Submission

 
This discussion has been archived. No new comments can be posted.
Display Options Threshold/Breakthrough Mark All as Read Mark All as Unread
The Fine Print: The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. We are not responsible for them in any way.
  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by Whoever on Wednesday November 30 2016, @03:31PM

    by Whoever (4524) on Wednesday November 30 2016, @03:31PM (#434936) Journal

    1. What makes you think that Trump is going to change anything? He is appointing Washington and Wall Street insiders to his cabinet.

    2. Trump was wrong about Ford's plans.

    Trump is going to drain the swamp? He is doing the opposite. You voted for him, and you are still in denial about the type of person you voted for.

    Trump is going to have the most conflicts of interest of any President ever. The fact that Ivanka joined him in meetings with foreign leaders shows that he intends to use his presidency for personal gain.

    The lease on the old Post Office building explicitly states that no elected official can have a share in the lease: let's see what happens in that case.

    Starting Score:    1  point
    Moderation   +1  
       Interesting=1, Total=1
    Extra 'Interesting' Modifier   0  
    Karma-Bonus Modifier   +1  

    Total Score:   3  
  • (Score: 2) by VLM on Wednesday November 30 2016, @06:27PM

    by VLM (445) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday November 30 2016, @06:27PM (#435041)

    He is appointing Washington and Wall Street insiders to his cabinet.

    Who?

    I was bored so I looked around and so few have been appointed...

    Yes you probably are correct that the Sec. Treas. almost has to be a white collar criminal under the existing economic system.

    In terms of those actually appointed so far I guess you mean Haley? Not exactly your average Mr Burns character...

    • (Score: 2) by Whoever on Thursday December 01 2016, @03:45AM

      by Whoever (4524) on Thursday December 01 2016, @03:45AM (#435259) Journal

      Transportation secretary? Did you notice that she has worked in previous administrations? Did you see who her spouse is?

      And there are others. Trump is filling his cabinet with insiders. Remember all that talk of draining the swamp?

    • (Score: 2) by Whoever on Thursday December 01 2016, @06:44AM

      by Whoever (4524) on Thursday December 01 2016, @06:44AM (#435302) Journal

      Actually, people like you make me very angry.

      You were warned about Trump, yet you voted for him. Now that he is doing the opposite of what he said he would do, where is your outrage?

      You wanted change, you are getting more of the same. Yet you don't seem to care. You have saddled the country with someone who is probably going to make life worse for all but the 1% of the population, but you don't care. You voted for someone who has stated his goals of taking away civil liberties.

      You think that Trump is consistent, but you haven't bothered to watch what is going sufficiently to realize that he is the opposite of consistent.

      I was going to say that Nero would be proud of you, but that's not true: you haven't been watching.

    • (Score: 2) by Whoever on Thursday December 01 2016, @05:27PM

      by Whoever (4524) on Thursday December 01 2016, @05:27PM (#435528) Journal

      Read this and then consider what the Trump presidency is likely to do for anyone who isn't mega-wealthy:

      https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/11/30/donald-trump-is-assembling-the-richest-administration-in-modern-american-history/?utm_term=.b99454e0b442 [washingtonpost.com]

      You were sold a pup.

  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 30 2016, @07:18PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 30 2016, @07:18PM (#435066)

    "keep your friends close, and your enemies closer"