Well, you've got two choices. 1) You can take the time to educate your boss on the history of mainframes, how they transformed the business world, how they have a greater transaction throughput than the PC, servers or even midranges, how they're far more stable and secure than the PC, and how they can handle the "heavy lifting" of large-scale processing that the PC will never approach. Explain the necessity of the mainframe as part of the overall business paradigm (nobody really knows what paradigm means, but I think your boss would probably be impressed by it), and over time get him more involved in learning the ins and outs of the world of big iron.
2) You can blind him with your spare bottle of Grecian Formula 16, beat him with your cane, cut his jugular with your plastic pocket protector, pull his guts out with a decolator, and hide his body under a large pile of 80-column cards... Let me know when you're sentenced. I'll send you a cake with an IBM s/360 hex card (http://weblog.ceicher.com/archives/IBM360greencard.pdf) baked inside. Mmmmmmmmm, hex cake... -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Graying MVS Sysprog Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2007 21:18 To: [email protected] Subject: help -- ignorant new boss Yikes. So, because of a reorg, I have a new boss that knows nothing about mainframes at all. Not even Unix. Just Windoze, as far as I can tell. I've always had a manager that used to do my job or one very close to it. Now I have to explain to him all the projects I'm working on, etc. In other words, really, it's a job interview. Am I worth anything to the company? I'm the only full time sysprog left here. I know. I know. And I'm sorry that, yes, at least I do still have a job doing what I love. I know many of us have been retired lately. Any sage words would be appreciated. Or job offers. :) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
