Cut from word doc and paste to the list. I’ve often seen the list jam stuff together. I’ve pasted the same thing elsewhere and it works perfectly.
Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone On Monday, March 21, 2022, 2:02 PM, zMan <[email protected]> wrote: Hey Bill--not commenting on the actual content at all one way or 't'other, just curious: how did you enter your longish post above? Something ran a bunch of the words together, and I'm 100% sure you didn't enter it that way. I've seen this in a couple of other places and either couldn't ask or the folks didn't remember what they did. I'd just like to understand it! (And yes this is pretty OT but at least it's not political, unless we're going to blame &party for the words getting run together!) On Mon, Mar 21, 2022 at 1:47 PM esmie moo < [email protected]> wrote: > I disagree about corporate greed. Yes, I support profit margins but the > margin of profit making by these corporates is obnoxious. Recently, the > company I used to work for gave their higher management bonuses in the 5 > figure amounts plus stock options (which were not disclosed) after the jobs > were moved to third world countries (India, Brazil and Argentina). > On Monday, March 21, 2022, 09:48:48 a.m. EDT, Bob Bridges < > [email protected]> wrote: > > 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://mainframeupdate.blogspot.com/2022/03/trouble-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 > -- zMan -- "I've got a mainframe and I'm not afraid to use it" ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
