On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 21:15:58 -0600, Graying MVS Sysprog wrote: >On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 20:47:47 -0600, Tom Schmidt wrote: > >>Do you know if your company is looking at outsourcing your mainframe (yet)? > >Why? You need the business? Actually, I don't think they know enough to >have thought of it. No, I'm not in that line of business -- but I was once in a position somewhat similar to the one you are describing... just before it outsourced its mainframes about 14 years ago. Ergo my first question. (Actually my new manager wasn't clueless so much as ambushed by the circumstances above him. I would work for him again if I lived in the area again.) Don't be so sure that your management hasn't thought of outsourcing -- the idea might not be something that they came up with, it might be something that is being sold to them (and to the board) while you sit and wonder just how clueless the newby manager really is. >>Did your new boss want this new position or was he/she pushed into it from >>a (better) job? > >Two groups combined and my old boss was, um, expatriated. How old are the people in your new boss' chain of command? Are they nearly all younger than you? If so, take Ed Gould's advice and get your resume together fast.
And, yes, you ARE interviewing for your own job! (Get used to it.) -- Tom Schmidt Madison, WI ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
