True Blue mini-Ginnis

I cannot help being reminded of this term I learned about a while back: TBmG(True Blue mini-Ginnis). I watched the replay of the Jim Cramer interview of Ginni Rometty on his Mad Money show a couple of days ago. Behind them was a room filled with TBmGs. Of course Ginni did not call them that. She called them "New Collar Skills of the Future."

She also said "50% of IBM is millennials that are here."

She further explained: "So you change the design thinking, you-- put them on ag...ile, which is co-location. Change the tools. Multidisciplinary. Minimum viable products. Small teams. And then you give them contemporary tools, co-location. So that's what you're seeing here. And, boy, we've been at that. We've done this to workspaces in 300 places around the world."

Her final words of wisdom: "This IBM will change the world one more time."

Disclaimer: I am not a millennial nor a New Collar Skill nor a TBmG.

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Oh, she looks so calm and optimistic... I wish if I had a few mil to invest into her.

They used to take kids right out of college, (now called millennials) and train them for at a year. They learned work ethic, teamwork, problem solving, professionalism, and a complete immersion in the technical and sales aspects of the jobs they were expected to do. I know, I was one of them.

These 'new collar', (jeez what a load of BS that is), people don't know anything and have a terrible work ethic. Their egos and entitled attitudes far exceed their abilities. Company's banking on these people are in for a rude awakening. Meanwhile, IBM is dumping effective experienced people.

But hey, throwing these 'new collars' into a real hip bullpen with bean bag chairs means IBM is innovating and keeping up with the times doesn't it?

The Freudian slip @16:30 in the video: ". . .we've outsourced. . .err. . .Open Sourced that. . ."

Speak volumes.

Video: https://streamable.com/cbgr8

Here is the full interview on YT - the millennials nonsense is about 5:00

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgc4aJ-JMJg

IBM CEO Ginni Rometty: Reinventing IBM | Mad Money | CNBC

Oh, how loud I laughed... Man...

It sounds like the buzzword machine broke and its contents are spilling out of her mouth. Too bad not a single one of them is true.

I did not go to college and work at IBM. I did however start at the bottom working my way up from computer operations, to programmer, to QA Analyst, to product management to presales. That being said it wasn't done at IBM. In my 34 year career I have worked at 7 companies and the last being acquired by IBM. I have worked hard to move up the ladder. The issue with this program, is most millennials are lazy and just want to earn the big pay check. So this program will fail. IBM had very talented 'older' workers that can easily be trained and still have drive, the issue we make too much money. These kids will all leave when they realize they will have to work and will whine and complain. Older people just do the job they are given.

Here is a link to the transcript for the Cramer/Rometty interview:

http://www.cnbc.com/2017/06/21/cnbc-transcript-ibm-chairman-president-ceo-ginni-rometty-on-cnbcs-mad-money-w-jim-cramer.html

IBM has done some stupid things in recent years but this "new collar" idea might be the stupidest. She's betting the company on kids who couldn't even be bothered to go to college? I don't think there are too many public high schools that prepare you to be a technical professional.

It sounds like the buzzword machine broke and its contents are spilling out of her mouth. Too bad not a single one of them is true.

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