On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 3:33 PM, Jim Thomas <[email protected]> wrote: > 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
If I was woken up at midnight, a phone would not rouse me the next night. -- Mike A Schwab, Springfield IL USA Where do Forest Rangers go to get away from it all? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
