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Ancient IBM wisdom (from 1979) that the bosses just straight up promptly forgot (media.piefed.social)

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Apparently a page from an internal IBM training manual. Some further attempts at source it

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[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 34 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Isn't that exactly why they do use them for management decisions?

[–] InputZero@lemmy.world 12 points 18 hours ago

Yup!

"I'm sorry but your contact is terminated because our management software designated your position as redundant and unnecessary. It wasn't our decision to let you go, but it was our decision to begin using that software and it was our decision to program it to try to fire as many employees as possible, but it's not our decision and therefore we can't be held responsible. Goodbye."