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> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Gary Green
>
> As I mentioned in the past, a friend is losing his job (and
> looking for the next one) because the company he works for is
> sending all systems programmer, operations and scheduling, as
> well as a lot of other non-mainframe, positions, to a firm in India.
>
> Well, this past week he had to sit down and explain what he
> does and so forth to the "Sr." Systems Programmer sent in by
> the outsourcing firm.
> Remember, one only gets ONE chance to make a first impression
> and this was the outsourcing firm's one chance. According to
> my friend, it did not look good.
>
> Other than the fact that this "Sr." Systems Programmer has
> never installed ANY base OS, he claimed, or so it's thought,
> that he installed z/OS 1.10, then, it's thought, he retracted
> that statement and replaced it with he worked on 1.10.
The other kind of ESP, maybe?
> Other scary thoughts..., [ snip ]
>
> Sorry for the rant, but my friend had to get it off his
> chest, and I, passing it along, mine. There are plenty other
> examples but my friend just sighed and left at this.
Apparently management there does not fully comprehend all the
implications of "You get what you pay for". If it's a publicly-held
firm, I think I'd want to divest......
-jc-
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