Back in the 1990's IBM had employee only country clubs. We just showed our ID cards and drove through the gate into a first class 200 acre facility with golf, swimming, tennis, fishing etcetera. This was the one near me on Long Island. The Sands Point IBM country club. Google it. This club would cost thousands a year to belong to today.
It was just one of the things current employees may not be aware of. Rather like, respect, security, raises and management you can trust to run the business.
BCG videos showing IBM salespeople cannot even to treat the clients to dinner!
Are you F'n kidding me? If I am a prospective client and you refuse to wine and dine me I can tell you I am not buying anything from your company. That's the way the world works IBM, so get with it.
Oh yes, the third rule. Spend a lot of time keeping the client happy. Only now of course it is to spend a lot of time keeping shareholders happy.
It was indeed a different time - respect for the individual - go the extra mile for client. There was a third rule of Watson (the human being) I forget but then IBM cared for staff.
@1wlt - your diaper needs changing
Not only did we have the country clubs but each year we had family day, rides, shows and food.. all free (at least when I started) then a small fee for food. And at Christmas time you received a present for every child you had. It was a different time, IBM was swimming in money.. ..
There used to be a wonderful IBM Country Club in Poughkeepsie, NY. It had so much to offer for free to all employees - Golf course, swimming pool, tennis courts, multiple ball fields, jogging trail, weight room, bowling alleys and more. It is mentioned in this article which tells the story of IBM build up and decline. https://www.marketplace.org/2016/06/08/world/profit-ibm
Cut the racist c-ap - whoever is posting here with racist tones should be banned. Same poster too. Those country clubs are part of an OLD IBM that is long, long gone. It was vanishing in 1991 and now they are a memory, faded photographs of Thomas J. Watson Sr. (remember?) - a true salesman - standing with his salesmen. Now we have saleswomen and that is an improvement save Ginny. But racist? Put your c-ap on Facebook or some other stupid forum.
I don't know how the IBM Country clubs in the USA were run, but I can tell you that blacks were welcome at the one in Toronto, Canada.
@jrp So do yours. Is this Ginny? Lol!
Those country clubs were whites only so am glad that apartheid behavior is gone.
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Note the post id of the first 3 replies. Replied to his own post twice.
SAME JERK THREE REPLIES. GONNA GO THROUGH YOUR WHOLE LIFE THAT WAY?
The new IBM employee...bigoted, not computer savvy, dumb too? It is too late.
@his - so nobody was running around the club with an Obamaphone then?
@his - no they were not. Not at all. We have enough real problems without listening to invented ones.
Those country clubs were whites only so am glad that apartheid behavior is gone.