I found the extreme bitterness of the ex-employee and ex-contractor comments that the DICE piece had elicited even more disturbing than the numbers of layoffs.
Without perhaps meaning to do so, IBM has apparently fostered the growth of a strongly disaffected programming proletariat that believes itself to be undervalued and underpaid. Anciently, people who worked for IBM and with its equipment were among its strongest boosters; but this is no longer the case. Among new men, strange faces, other minds . . . The old order changeth, yielding place to new . . . John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
