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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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[โ€“] Croquette@sh.itjust.works 15 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

That's the neat thing, you can deny accountability by blaming the computer's decision

[โ€“] InnerScientist@lemmy.world 6 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

A COMPUTER CAN NEVER BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE

THEREFORE A COMPUTER MUST ~~NEVER~~ MAKE ~~A~~ MANAGEMENT DECISIONs