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