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To: Think4Yourself who wrote (88967)	9/13/2007 2:19:20 AM
From: silenceddissenter	Respond to of 306849

When I was a senior in college IBM came in and hired all the people with high GPA's. I was working with Tom Bryan out of RTP, I could never understand why they kept hiring people that were totally clueless about even spelling the word computer. Liberal arts majors that studied viking mythology - what the fark? Tom explained it to me one day - he said he was given lots of money by corporate HQ in Armonk to hire lots of people to make the board happy - he liked to play golf and he didn't have the time to sit down and interview each one of these applicants to see if they measured up - that the peter principle would eventually get most of the dumbasses in time - BWAHAHA! Holy FARKING waste of money batman! BWAHAHA! Ah the memories! Near the end of my time there they had stopped hiring just HIGH GPA people - started hiring folks that were really second string so they didn't have to give them pay raises after they ensnared them to the expensive apartment and new sports car and mountains of debt for high priced entertainment, travel, and food. IBM was the de-facto leader of the computer industry then. They thought they were getting the cream of the crop. Boy, were they ever wrong! They got cheaters, people who took the easiest classes just to get the grade, and people who were book smart but couldn't program their way out of a paper bag. So sad but true, I went to that company expecting to be around people that lived and loved technology like I did, instead I was surrounded by simpletons and fools on every side. People that had no business working in technology what so ever - but those viking mythology liberal arts chicks sure were hot! HAHA! Its the same mistake Gates made - he tried to tell HQ you can't pay programmers by lines of code - it breeds so much inefficiency - no wonders OS2 was bloatware - what a bunch of dumbasses - I promised after I left them never to work at a big corporate firm ever again - No way they were gonna crunch me up in their silly corporate machine and make my dreams die surrounded by silly MBA types that were more worried about their new yacht than the new fiber multiplexers that needed to be shipped. We all used to laugh at the stupid arrogance of IBM. The company got exactly what it deserved over the next few decades. Just scale that meme up to all of the USA - same difference no? Also worked on a project run by IBM in the 90's. Would not do it again. Managers were clueless pencil pushers. Was paid extremely well but quit the project after one month. Didn't want to be associated with it because it was clear it was going to fail because of the IBM management style. That job never went on my resume. BWAHAHA - Preach it brother! Amen! So if all the USA is to mimic the microcosm of IBM - where are you going to flee too? We got too many brittney dumbasses coming out of college and all the smart spocks overseas can't be hired and brought here because of silly laws.