When we were young, we helped usher out older workers & we didn’t really think or care about it. Now that it’s our turn in the ageist barrel, we are shocked & dismayed. As Steve said, not really surprising. This is exactly what capitalism does.
Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone On Monday, February 14, 2022, 7:36 AM, Steve Horein <steve.hor...@gmail.com> wrote: Not really surprising, but I did not see much empathy for those older employees (or IBM in general) in the comments of this topic on reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/srq7im/ibm_executives_called_older_workers_dinobabies/ On Mon, Feb 14, 2022 at 5:12 AM Joe Monk <joemon...@gmail.com> wrote: > > https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/12/business/economy/ibm-age-discrimination.html > > "Another email by a top executive, appearing to refer to older workers, > mentions a plan to “accelerate change by inviting the ‘dinobabies’ (new > species) to leave” and make them an “extinct species.” > > A third email refers to IBM’s “dated maternal workforce,” an apparent > allusion to older women, and says: “This is what must change. They really > don’t understand social or engagement. Not digital natives. A real threat > for us.” > > Joe > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
