IBM scraps rewards program for staff inventions, wipes away cash points | Big Blue staffers aren’t pleased to lose out on potential bonuses::Big Blue staffers aren’t pleased to lose out on potential bonuses

    • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world
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      10 months ago

      It’s even more insane when you find out that IBM has a history of forcing their employees to sign contracts that state that anything that their employees work on at home in their own free time, is the property of IBM

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        10 months ago

        A company where I applied wanted me to do that as well. I was going to be a truck driver…

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      10 months ago

      If hard work was rewarded, the richest people in the world would be African miners, Chinese manufacturing workers, and Indian telemarketers.

      Besides, why do we need a bunch of enthusiastic PhD candidates with decades of experience developing, testing, and refining novel applications of technology? We’ve got AI! AI will do everything for us, starting tomorrow and onwards until forever!