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posted by mrpg on Friday December 30 2016, @05:11AM   Printer-friendly
from the objection-de-conscience dept.

Original URL: The Register

IBM staff have petitioned the company to – among other things – express concern that "IBM CEO Ginni Rometty's open letter to President-elect Donald Trump does not affirm IBMers' core values of diversity, inclusiveness, and ethical business conduct."

The petition's authors respect Rometty's "willingness to engage in constructive dialogue with the president-elect" but argue IBM's culture is essential "to our transformation underpinned by cloud and cognitive initiatives."

[...] There's also a call to "Respect our right to refuse participation in any U.S. contracts that violate constitutional and civil liberties" which sounds like an option to opt out of working on Trump's planned register of Muslims. Another demand wants IBM to "Prohibit perceived influence-peddling of elected officials by restricting IBM and its employees from using any Trump owned or Trump branded properties for business purposes, in accordance with the IBM Business Conduct Guidelines."

In part the petition reads:

We have a moral and business imperative to uphold the pillars of a free society by declining any projects which undermine liberty, such as surveillance tools threatening freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, and freedom from unreasonable search and seizure.

[...] Taking a conservative approach has grave implications. Our own founder's experience and the rest of history teach us that accommodating those who unleash forces of aggressive nationalism, bigotry, racism, fear, and exclusion inevitably yields devastating outcomes for millions of innocents.

Full text: IBMers to CEO Ginni Rometty: Affirm IBM values!


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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 30 2016, @05:44AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 30 2016, @05:44AM (#447309)

    Hey IBM I need a job and dont give a fuck about that sort of thing. I will do it.

    That is how the market works.

    IBM's culture
    Oh and BAAAAAWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!

    Prohibit perceived influence-peddling
    and mwwwwwuahahahaha!!!! Thats a good one.

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  • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 30 2016, @05:47AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 30 2016, @05:47AM (#447310)

    Found the Nazi!

    Go fuck a pig.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 30 2016, @07:42AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 30 2016, @07:42AM (#447336)

      Thats capitalist pig not nazi.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 31 2016, @01:11AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 31 2016, @01:11AM (#447701)

        In his 696-page book Capital in the Twenty-First Century, [wikipedia.org] where he analyzed 250 years of Capitalism, Professor Piketty notes that Capitalism proceeds toward greater and greater inequality, monopoly, and Fascism.

        To say it a different way, Fascism can be considered to be the ultimate form of Capitalism.

        -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]

    • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 30 2016, @08:02AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 30 2016, @08:02AM (#447339)

      Go fuck your sister, jew.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 30 2016, @09:04AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 30 2016, @09:04AM (#447351)

        Don't tell me what I'm already doing.

  • (Score: 4, Informative) by jmorris on Friday December 30 2016, @04:36PM

    by jmorris (4844) on Friday December 30 2016, @04:36PM (#447479)

    Yea, just firing em would be the easiest solution, like you say there are a lot of people who would like a job right now.

    But no. THEY made the rule, and as their own prophet Alinsky teaches is, making the enemy live up to their own book of rules is so useful.

    No IBMers, you too have to BAKE THE FUCKING CAKE. They want to reject any lawful trade they can all -individually- and -personally- be ruined exactly like these intolerant snowflakes almost certainly cheered when small businesses were ruined in the Gay Wedding Cake Wars. You assholes made the rule, choke on it bitches.