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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?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 30 2016, @04:55PM
I doubt Trump read past the beginning of the third paragraph, which started with "I am writing to offer ideas that I believe will help achieve the aspiration you articulated and that can advance a national agenda in a time of profound change." He briefly skimmed the rest and tossed it aside.
As others have mentioned, this is just a courtesy call to reduce the chance of Trump making an example of their company, like he did with Ford and Carrier/UTC.
Trump is a global capitalist at heart, look at his 50-year record in business. He doesn't give a shit about American workers. But, he did make a lot of promises during the campaign, and he wants to be re-elected, so he can't just blow off all the things he said.