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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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[–] Lodespawn@aussie.zone 30 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You know shit only flows downhill right?

[–] MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net 106 points 1 month ago (1 children)

[–] sukhmel@programming.dev 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I think what they meant is nobody in management cares if someone wants to hold them accountable

Bit it's a nice picture, yeah

[–] scathliath@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I don't know, they all sure hate Luigi for some reason.

[–] sukhmel@programming.dev 5 points 1 month ago

Probably not fans of Nintendo or something