Sir, LMAO !! .. actually .. this only happened twice ... none the Less ... in this day and age of buzz word proliferation, ... technically ... I was not canned ... I was PUSHED to a point where I'd retaliate ... :-) just so that my manager at the time could justify her inferiority complex and the sheer lack of anything that resembled a brain.
The other time was when my then director (who disliked the fact that I was versed in assembler) would constantly make changes to the system w/out telling anybody. Invariably, I'd get a call (and this happened almost every day for five years before I got tired) every night from operations saying that none of my images would come back up after the IPL(lpars back then). When asked why they IPL'd, they said ... 'because.. he (my director) told them to'. After having gone into work past midnight to fix somebody else's screw up for years, I finally told them to call him and get his arse into the office and that I was going to hang up the phone and leave it off the hook. The result was that I had a 'dead' shop for just over a day or so (call it a LONG maint. Window ??) ... The first few times that this had happened, two VP's interfered and chewed out most of my then directors already nonexistent arse ... I was then told (by both VP's) to revoke my director's id ... but .. stupid me .. I did not ... Ahh ... what games we play ... :-) Sayy whatever happened to the plain simple world of English ?? :-) (okay ... time to ROFL now ..). Kind Regards Jim Thomas 617-233-4130 (mobile) 636-294-1014 (res) [email protected] (Email) -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Chase, John Sent: Sunday, August 21, 2011 5:49 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Security is fun in the PC world.... > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Jim Thomas > > Sir, > > I must have been was 'really disliked' ... been let go a lot more > than that but have, on two occasions, actually lost network / MVS > access even before I was 'told'.... in fact .. on one occasion, > they actually changed my network (local in this example) password > and after my 'screen saver' came on ... I could not even get back > into my work PC ... :-) > > That said, in all honesty, I had actually pushed it so I expected > It ... oh well ... :-) I've only been "canned" once.... But it made headline news around the U.S. (and possibly the world) for a few days, at least. :-) Hints: August 3 - 6, 1981. "Boss" was the President of the U.S. > ROFL !!. Indeed! > I really and honestly do not mean to put anybody down or be > dis-respectful but there are two characteristics that I absolutely > abhor .. and even more so when it comes from my supposed management. > > I absolutely detest and abhor both, liars and brown nose'ers. Likewise. And that just about sums up my opinion of CONgress. -jc- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html ----- No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 10.0.1392 / Virus Database: 1520/3847 - Release Date: 08/20/11 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
