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Re:Cutting ‘Old Heads’ at IBM by gaius on Thursday March 22, 2018 @03:19PM (#16651788)
who are more concerned about protecting their political standing than accomplishing good work.

Managers and bean counters you mean? They always seem to be spared the axe.

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Re:Cutting ‘Old Heads’ at IBM by pas on Thursday March 22, 2018 @03:47PM (#16652027)
Bean counters are already outsourced to SSCs (shared service centers) around the globe. And everyone is a manager at IBM and big firms nowadays. (Except the real engineers at IBM Research, and a few good guys at BlueMix and other corps they bought over the years.)
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