Re: IBM is having a Yahoo moment: No more working from home

[Chris Morton <salt -dot- morton -at- gmail -dot- com>]

At Ford's glass house (world HQ), both my VP stepfather and eldest brother
spent a brief period in that company's turkey farm equivalent, although
neither were turkeysâfar from it. That was in the late '70s/early '80s when
FOMOCO was in a world of hurt of Phil Caldwell was (mis)managing its
comeback.

Chris Morton



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On Fri, Feb 10, 2017 at 10:38 AM, Peter Neilson <neilson -at- windstream -dot- net>
wrote:

> On Fri, 10 Feb 2017 08:50:43 -0500, Stuart Burnfield <slb -at- westnet -dot- com -dot- au>
> wrote:
>
> If cutting payroll really is the unstated goal ...
>>
>
> In ancient times Digital Equipment had a corporate "no layoffs" policy.
> They (most likely Ken Olsen himself) were trying very hard to be good guys.
> But of course you sometimes have to let a bunch of highly unproductive
> people go without having solid grounds for firing them. DEC's solution, or
> so I have heard? The Turkey Farm.
>
> You, targeted for removal, would be assigned to a new project with no
> manager, in an office with other turkeys, somewhere like in the fifth
> sub-basement of The Mill. You would have a phone and a subscription to a
> newspaper. (This was before any Internet.)
>
> Maybe the turkey farm was just a fabrication. I never worked at DEC, so I
> wouldn't know first hand. But it sure made a good story.
>
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