Best Buy, now in trouble, became the darling of social media watchers a few years ago for its open flexible work models, unprecedented in a punch-clock domain like retail.

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In an odd way, this is similar to the Boomers who let life click away, one time-clock punch after the other.

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Outside the exhibit stands the company's achievement wall -- showing off IBM's humble beginnings as a punch card clock company and ending with Watson.

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And then you look at the scoreboard, see the clock at 0:00, and have the emotional gut-punch that not only is the game over, but, more than likely, so is your career.

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