@piki @nixCraft IBM (especially the EU part) is mentally still stuck in the 70s, ok, maybe 80s. More than a few times I have had the opportunity to see their culture and organization of work "from the inside" - whatever you look at there: the structure, the accountability of employee goals, the pay structure stinks of the long-dead carcass of the great corporations of the late 20th century. So it is no surprise that floss is completely out of step with such rhetoric.

I don't know if it's the specifics of the EU branches, the problem with transplanting the work culture from the USA (I don't know the realities there) or just bad luck that I happened to come across such branches and not others, and that I didn't get to know the better ones, but I always had the impression that I was going back 40 years compared with contacts in other companies.