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All they are required to ig think. ‘Though the hours at the Newman Street bures anid a yourig Londoner with a spotty face — and a dozen ot so IBM clients, businessmen. By rights he ought to be the best of the lot; he and perhaps the git! from New Zealand, who also has naties degree; but in fact he struggles to understand what 1d provided w is going on and does ba \e written of the frst week they write a test, which he bately scrapes through. ‘The instructor is not pleased with him and docs not hesitate to} express his displeasure. He is in the world of business, and in the] world of business, he discovers, one does not need to be polite ‘There is something about programming that flummoxes him, yet that even the In his naiveté he had imagined that computer programming would be about ways of translating symbolic logic and set theory into digital codes. Instead the talk is all about inventories and ‘outflows, about Customer A and Customer B. What are inven- tories and outflows, and what have they to do with mathemat- ics? He might as well be 2 clerk sorting cards into batches; he might as well be a trainee station foreman. At the end of the third week he writes his final test, passes in undistinguished fashion, and graduates to Newman Street, ‘where he is allocated a desk in a room with nine other young programmers. All the office furniture is grey. In the desk drawer he finds paper, a ruler, pencils, a pencil sharpener, and a litde appointments book with a black plastic cover. On the cove solid capitals, is the word THINK. On the supervisor's desk, in his cubicle off the main office, is a sign reading THINK, THINK is the motto of IBM. What is special about IBM, he is given to understand, is that it is unrelentingly committed to thinking, It is up to employees to think at all times, and thus to live up to the ideal of IBM’ founder Thomas J. Watson. Employees who do not think do not belong in IBM, which is the aristocrat of the business machine world. At its headquarters in White Plains, eave the premises promptly at five. Fem: Sine ay leave at five w repro at least six. When there is « ight, with a break to he si jeith families to take care of sien are expected to work ih job they may have to work a toa pub for a bite. Since he dislikes géraight through. He rarely gets home before ten o'clock England, in London; he has a job, a proper job, better sinessmen in the class have no trouble with, He is cacaped South Aftica. Every lis frst goal, he ought to be h ihe finds himself more and more miserable. He has at flac, which he beats off with difficulty In the office there is inothing to rest the eye on but fat met Shadowless glare of the ncon lighting, he feels be-under attack, The building, a featureless bl and glass seems to give off 2 1s, od if way into his blood and numbs hi {illing him, turning him into a zombie “Yet he cannot give up. Barnet Hill Secondary Mo’ Rothamsted, IBM: he dare not fal fora third time. Failing er. Through the grey, heartless agency Hie must steel hims ks of be too much like b 6f IBM the real endure. 46 PeTrue/False questions- “YOUTH” You need a degree in science to work as computer programmer He has seen computers in films There are no computers in South Africa He wears a blue suit for the interview The interviewer asks him whether he plans to return to South Africa There will be a revolution in South Africa He takes a language test He gets a position as trained programmer He works in a factory off Newman Street warwnaunEpwne 10.He passes the exam to be a station foreman 11.Jobs for people with a degree are paid more in England 12.He doesn’t manage to pass the test 13.One needs to be clean in the world of business 14.The main subjects at IBM are creativity and art Open Questions What does IBM stand for? Is he the best of the trainees at answering tests? Do you think the environment is important in the work place? Do you think the passage is serious or partly ironical? 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