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Ancient IBM wisdom (from 1979) that the bosses just straight up promptly forgot (media.piefed.social)
submitted 7 months ago by umbraroze@piefed.social to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev
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Apparently a page from an internal IBM training manual. Some further attempts at source it

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[–] ruuster13@lemmy.zip 168 points 7 months ago (1 children)

And when computers make all management decisions, let us not forget that managers told them to do so, lest we forget whom to hold accountable.

[–] Lodespawn@aussie.zone 33 points 7 months ago (1 children)

You know shit only flows downhill right?

[–] MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net 110 points 7 months ago (1 children)

[–] sukhmel@programming.dev 17 points 7 months 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 8 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

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

[–] sukhmel@programming.dev 6 points 7 months ago

Probably not fans of Nintendo or something