IBM Smyrna openly and aggressively discriminated employees over 50. At the same time they were laying off employees over 50 years old they were hiring employees in their early 20’s. It is very sad. When will this stop?
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People under 50 are better on the eyes. No one wants to see that.
Wait a minute, black people can't be racist, right?
In the Smyrna office most of the employees are black, some are nice some are not, The problem over there is that discrimination is big and management promotes within black. With the said there are two serious issues going on there, age and race discrimination. When I say race discrimination is discrimination against the few white people that works there.
Hey don't forget the passive aggressive poutine eating rats up in Markham. They are the worst kind because they are government protected.
Coppell is the other Digital pig they slapped some lipstick on. The rats there are all the 2 legged type.
My previous employer is a huge IBM FSS customer (hint large HQ on Peachtree) So although my site was not GA based, many of our IBM contacts for support issues were. In my experience as both a customer, and as an employee of IBM, some of the thickest and most ignorant people I've ever had the displeasure of having to business with were/are located at that site. Especially if they are in a HR capacity. But I guess that is generally true of HR as a whole.
The Smyrna office was full of rats! Management was not great either. Discrimination there was big.
That office is another Digital dumping ground. Place is full of rats both fourlegged and twolegged varieties. What a ho-e.
Yeah, I took that same trip, but I didn't stop at 10baset... you have to carry on to learn fiber channel, 10gbase-sr, twinax, infiniband, converged and then hyperconverged infrastructures... cloud services, orchestrations and automations. Along the way did you migrate from batch, shell, perl, powershell and learn ruby, python, boto scripting, chef, puppet, ansible, terraform, and all the other fun stuff? Like I say, plenty of older folks still around. Just have to keep rolling with whatever new shiny thing comes along. Saas, Iaas, Paas, and all that jazz. Migrating from pets to cattle, and then finally to serverless architectures wherever possible. Keep going, and you'll be able to keep going. That's all.
@vmh Old grumpy guys always learn This one went from dual floppy pc's to xt to at to 386, learned novell, banyan, 3com plus, microsoft network operating systems, from coxax ethernet, arcnet, token ring, to 10baset, We didn't have google back then we learned by researching at the library asking questions Us grumpy old men are too much to pay and look to get someone at 1/3 of the pay
Old grumpy guys who won't learn new stuff get laid off and fresh kids, hungry to learn are sought after? That's just kinda the way it works. PLENTY of old people still at IBM. They're just amazing at what they do.