Actually a remark like that may be turning off the people that we want to hire us. Two jobs ago, my Director was someone who started on the help desk. When she became manager of the MF Tech Support, she asked if they were going to re-boot the machine. At the job preceding this, the Director's claim to fame was 'fixing' the e-mail system at the company. That and outsourcing the MF Ops to perhaps the most unresponsive outsourcer on the planet, or at least the Northeast. Bottom line is fewer and fewer management types have any grounding in what we do. Fortunately most don't follow IBM-Main
-----Original Message----- From: Eric Bielefeld [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 04, 2007 2:56 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Turning Off the People We Might Want to Hire The quote below was from a posting on another topic. I don't mean this to criticize the author, but just as a representation of some of the things I see in IBM-Main from time to time. Actually, the posting I cut this from was very good. I just wonder if someone reading this who was thinking about a career in mainframes, would decide they didn't want to work with that sort of people after being called a "thumb-sucking when-all-else- fails: reboot crowd." If his college had some classes offered from the IBM program for mainframe training, he might just think I don't want to work with people that call me these things. This is just a thought. I don't know how many people who work on MS servers or networks would even bother to read IBM-Main, but those who do might not get a very good impression of us mainframe people from reading the paragraph quoted below. Eric Bielefeld Milwaukee, Wisconsin > I think I'm pretty much middle of the pack. I'm one of the few who > will be the bridge from the crotchety old farts to the thumb-sucking > when-all-else- > fails: > reboot crowd. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
