IBM

As a current IBM employee, it depresses me sometimes to think back on my past employers and just how many of those workplaces were managed by "man/woman-children" who, more often than not, let emotion and personal biases control the daily decisions they make. At those places, genuinely good ideas by lower-level staff would be ignored 100% of the time if the idea somehow threatened the manager’s brittle ego or even slightly increased their workload. These were Tywin Lannister-wannabes I’m talking about – they view their employees as a group of undisciplined children requiring constant supervision, restricting the tiniest of freedoms and establishing authority by reprimanding non-offenses.

For these "control-gestapos", managing isn't the goal. Coasting through a life of upper-middle class perks and authority (in title only) is their only motivation. They inhibit any and all culture and creativity from a work environment and drain the lifeforce out of their staff.

Sirius Black would never have escaped if Azkaban had a swarm of micromanagers flying around in black hoods.

I will be honest with you here… I consider each and every single one of these Putin-sympathizing, workplace-tyrants out there actively defiling our country’s workplaces to be my eternal arch-rivals.

I guess what I’m trying to say here is IBM does a good job of saying, “do this thing by the end of the month” and leaving you alone.

You will be constantly losing roles to other IBM employees who are more qualified because their CV shows they previously worked in a similar role.