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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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[โ€“] Phoeniqz@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

"back when people still were " is kinda the most boomer-ish thing you can say tho

[โ€“] xxce2AAb@feddit.dk 0 points 1 month ago

Great. Then it's a good thing we were talking about critical thinking, not behavior - or reading comprehension.