I'm viewing it in Gmail. Interesting. Will look when I get digest tonight (if I remember).
On Mon, Mar 21, 2022 at 2:18 PM Bill Johnson < [email protected]> wrote: > 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 > -- 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
