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Re:IBM is splitting itself into two public companies by mceldeen on Thursday October 08, 2020 @01:30PM (#24721512)
I know a couple of people who are in the process of riding companies down, so to speak. They’re pretty close to retirement (if not already able to retire), they like their coworkers, and are comfortable where they’re at. They’re happy to man the ship as it slowly sinks. This might be the case for a good many IBM’ers on the “underperforming “ side.
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Re:IBM is splitting itself into two public companies by jacquesm on Thursday October 08, 2020 @01:35PM (#24721564)
That's roughly how I feel at times about our society as a whole. We went up for 56 years and we've been going down for the last 19.
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Re:IBM is splitting itself into two public companies by WJW on Thursday October 08, 2020 @01:48PM (#24721709)
Weirdly, I feel about the same but the downgoing part only started around 2015. We met once at a company you were doing due diligence at, so I happen to know that you are about 15 years older than me. Maybe it's just an age thing and we're getting grumpy? :)

After all, complaining about the state of the world decaying goes back to at least the ancient Greeks.

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Re:IBM is splitting itself into two public companies by jacquesm on Thursday October 08, 2020 @01:50PM (#24721733)
Yes, but from the perspective of those Greeks they were dead on! But good point about grumpy old people :)

Nice to meet you again, mail in profile.

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Re:IBM is splitting itself into two public companies by the-dude on Thursday October 08, 2020 @02:25PM (#24722116)
Were you thinking about Plato or Socrates?

Apparently, both didn't say this : https://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/05/01/misbehave/

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Re:IBM is splitting itself into two public companies by WJW on Thursday October 08, 2020 @03:11PM (#24722653)
I was thinking of one of those, it's a shame they apparently did not say it. However, I recently learned that the Torah apparently also claims that each generation is more degenerate than the last so perhaps I can fall back onto that :)
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Re:IBM is splitting itself into two public companies by gowld on Thursday October 08, 2020 @10:23PM (#24726114)
"over the hill" is a phrase for a reason.
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