There is a difference between "shortage of mainframe programmers" and "shortage of mainframe programmers willing to work for substandard wages and conditions". One can exist without the other.
As to corporations, ther is no such that in the real world as a Platonic corporation. Corporations are staffed by people, and they put their personal objectives above the good of the corporation. In a well run corporations, the policies and procedures are designed to align the goals of the employees to the goals of the corporations. Tat applies to the boardroom just as much as to the peons. If an employee can increase his bounuses at the expense of the corporations lomg term profits, then the employee will do so, whether he be the janitor of the CEO. Executives who know that they will be in a new job before their decisions cause losses will take the money and run. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [[email protected]] on behalf of Bob Bridges [[email protected]] Sent: Monday, March 21, 2022 9:48 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Trouble getting new mainframe staff? Oh, piffle. Mainframe installations are hiring Indian mainframers, to some extent, sure; but that simply proves that there are still mainframers to be hired, in India if nowhere else. It's no part of the shortage-of-mainframers problem. As for "corporate greed", corporations want to reduce costs, yes -- and how is that different from anyone else? In trying to reduce costs corporations sometimes make short-sighted decisions and later rue them -- and, again, how is that different from you and me? --- Bob Bridges, [email protected], cell 336 382-7313 /* One very sound rule for the care of the body is always to keep in mind what it was designed to do. The body was shaped by the need to run long distances on resilient turf, to run very fast for short distances, to climb trees, and to carry loads back to the cave, so any persistent exercise you do which is not a logical part of that ancient series of uses is, in general, bad for the body. -from _Cinnamon Skin_ by John D MacDonald */ -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On Behalf Of esmie moo Sent: Sunday, March 20, 2022 12:28 No surprise. All the Mainframers lost their jobs when their positions were outsourced to India, Brazil, Philippines because of corporate greed. --- On Sunday, March 20, 2022, 08:50:38 a.m. EDT, Mark Regan <[email protected]> wrote: http://secure-web.cisco.com/1JevFtChF65cOprCMuVt33nb8FME-ymVWSwY1yuRxLdw4WMSaHPNHK1Q-g0tx7_CSzfD9mFIzNj6Lg5Lv2e6ESKBBL5B0m5rVA0OjZzwImQY-I8IVBBZifmlpjq7_U3y9XlHQz-7KoKRUzJZglT10BznehzphLcgnMWa960pjzCZqpwOzXQy9HwdZ40jHsZpCaz5pMpPCimM5ZV8_Hbh3dwf-ciB3YcUj5bIWhNi7JKC7A4hTZ3npjBbhSpQRkWZ1vrRiOgmiBmInkoYuecXPb9yIwzbxSLCDMRAGf_3l6tGSamEyXSWYrw-UW7DVbs5kNGU57FFdZqPZ-Xc6ti390kaIo0EV7KbQY6KDkGrwJaqNbhVEPx3TJ7lp_jtYZRA32k0tqlBBSDyh13oqlYZAYQHgfMtg6WFvdNECtTBeJj6uFZaaF1J4y55zcLad55Qc/http%3A%2F%2Fmainframeupdate.blogspot.com%2F2022%2F03%2Ftrouble-getting-new-mainframe-staff.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
