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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.
Other scary thoughts..., he does not know ANY CA products, does not know
who ASG, BMC, EMC are. Never worked with WLM, SMF, SAS, MXG, et. al...
When the terms, USI, U29, UJV, U83/84/85 and TRT were mentioned the
response was a blank stare. Does not know what a VVDS, VVR, NVR is.
Never used IPCS, ISMF, HCD, and IOCDS related "stuff". Claimed he
"knows" OSA but wanted to be shown how to configure it, etc... He even
claimed he really knew TSO! Not the ISPF interface, which most people
think is TSO, but TSO native from the command prompt. This boast was
made because he knew how to drop back from ISPF and delete a dataset. In
fact, other than "SMP/E", there was never a hint of recognition or
understanding in the eyes of this "Sr." Systems Programmer.
However, my friend went along since that is what was required of him.
Yesterday this "Sr." Systems Programmer was rooting around the system
just looking here and there and, as happens often enough, his ISPF
Profile dataset went into extents and filled up. What really ticked my
friend off was this "Sr." Systems Programmer sent an email to DASD
administrator asking her how he, this "Sr." Systems Programmer, could
increase the size of the profile dataset. He couldn't continue his
duties because the dataset filled up...
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.
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Can we say "Disaster that found a place to happen"? Your friend may be
in a very strong position vis-a-vis consulting fees when this vulture
(opps, chicken) comes home to roost. This so-called "Sr Systems
Programmer" from the outsourcing firm has succeeded in giving his firm a
distinct aroma - formaldehyde and lilies! I suspect that this particular
outsourcing isn't going to last more than a week or so.
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