Posts by Grumpy O'Toole

IBM Software tells workers: Get back to the office three days a week

Re: company goals

Most banks want this.

Sack everyone except senior management, ask about replacing 3rd world staffers with AI.

All SW dev must be done in cheapest location.

Greed until they realise they can't eat money.

Every place has this code to insert lines, comments, etc.

Because micro-managers are stupid and don't add any value themselves.

These people working out in India... Are they coming into our office 3 days a week too, or is India not remote?

IBM cuts deep into workforce – even its Watson and AI teams – as it 'pivots' to cloud

Saw the axe first-hand at Lloyds (LBG). Soon as LBG staff were 2p'd over to IBM, there was a mad scramble to get back on the good ship LBG. Them that didn't make it ended up having to go to India with the remit to teach people how to do their job. In 2 weeks. Morale must have been through the floor for permies. It wasn't much better for us contractors. I was given the chop by someone I'd never met over email. Nice touch.

Shareholders really love this arrangement though.

Electric vehicles won't help UK meet emissions targets: Time to get out and walk, warn MPs

They could start by cleaning up the biggest offenders:

http://www.industrytap.com/worlds-15-biggest-ships-create-more-pollution-than-all-the-cars-in-the-world/8182

..But industry magnates making a killing running ships on bunker fuel is kept quiet while they fleece motorists.

Is that rain or tears of frustration on your face? Google Cloud bursts, Console and Dataflow washed away for hours

"Gotta be the DNS."