I do what I’m paid to do and not an ounce more, unless I’m doing it entirely for myself with no expectation of any compensation or favor.
I value my time and I don’t work for free. To do otherwise, I think, is self-disrespecting.
XEAL@lemm.ee 10 months ago
No even IBM… this is why I don’t want to strive at work anymore.
henfredemars@infosec.pub 10 months ago
XEAL@lemm.ee 10 months ago
On a previous job, two people and I (all subcontracted) raised up the IT support department of a company from what was barebones. AD, Azure, Intune, package deployment, ticketing and inventory software, automations and more. We made a great team.
After a year and a half we realized they wanted to implement and external L1 support team that is still to this day a bunch of incompetent idiots. On top of that, the company merged with them part of another company, including IT personnel that automatically became staff members without any effort or merits, while we remained subcontracted.
From the tree people team, the coordinator and I left, while the remaining person is still stuck there, because she’s on her 50’s and it’s more complicated for her to find another job, but she’s a person who strives and knows her shit. around.
TL;DR: I’m not even talking about going the extra mile or working for free, I’m talking about putting effort on the job you’re paid to do just to be spit in the face in exchange. I’ve reached a new point where IDGAF if I’m slacking all day at work as long as I don’t get in trouble or fired. The burnout is real.
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Hey, I also do things that will look good on my resume. Also enough to not be bored if needed. There’s no spite in my approach, just an understanding that they’ve got theirs and I’ve got mine. If we were union or I was rewarded for excellence I’d put in more effort, but also I’m not going to exhaust or stress myself for a job.
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 10 months ago
At work and at home. IBM has a history of making their employees sign contracts that state that anything their employees invent at home in their own free time, is the property of IBM
witty_username@feddit.nl 10 months ago
What do you mean by that? Aren’t IBM the gleaming gold standard of ruining your market dominance with idiotic management practices and investor-driven shortsightedness?
If anything, I am surprised they still had schemes that incentivise employees by distributing some form of equity
dustyData@lemmy.world 10 months ago
IBM is what a company that survived crossing to the other side of the enshittification fence looks like. They are profitable, for sure, but they have nothing of value to offer to an actual human being. They only speak corpo and their only semi-amiable relationships are with other corporate entities via contracts, negotiations, arbitration, and lawsuits. It’s functionally and physically incapable of communicating, offering a product or relating with an average real person, for they haven’t known what that is in at least three decades.
lauha@lemmy.one 10 months ago
IBM has always been a business-to-business. Their name literally comes from International Business Machines.
dustyData@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I suppose the several IBM PCs I owned in the 80s and 90s were all just hallucinations. Useful hallucinations though, they taught me to use DOS and to program in BASIC.
XEAL@lemm.ee 10 months ago
A company is not necessarily limited to the activities implied by its name.
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 10 months ago
They began that way, then they branched into personal computation when that became a thing. Then they took a machine gun to their feet in that market
Tja@programming.dev 10 months ago
Exactly this. The effort of selling one z Series is not one million times higher than selling a laptop, but the profit is.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Honestly, when I think “IBM”, I can’t help but think of the company that built the counting machines for the Nazis back in the 1930s.
XEAL@lemm.ee 10 months ago
I expected more from a renowned company, rookie mistake I guess.
BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 10 months ago
They went shitty decades ago.
I’d say at best the PC wars is a good demarcation, maybe even before then.
phillaholic@lemm.ee 10 months ago
The Original Macintosh was an attack at how shitty IBM was.