Posts from AbsKerneels reminds me of the movie title "One fly over the cuckoos nest".
Richard and Vickie Pinion --- [email protected] wrote: From: AbsKerneels <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Pissing contest(s) Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2013 05:56:54 -0600 Elardus, TRUE story.. and this occurred at YOUR installation in the late 70's : We lost the main IMS database , with all the information of all the people that needed to "klaar out".. .or move on , with their normal lives.. because they forced some of us, to donate two years of our lives to military service or to defend our country because the communists was about to invade or take over.. or so we were told, on a daily/weekly basis. The DBA manager at the time ? Ray Russel Why did we lose the Database ? Because of pointer errors and none of the database backups were actually working. They ran daily/weekly/monthly but nobody actually checked that they actually completed successfully. It was not important in those days, to check return codes. What then happened ? We worked the whole weekend, non stop , writing assembler programs to manually try and fix pointer errors , on the broken files, etc. etc. Summary I am digressing... so lets get back to the subject/topic... "pissing contest" ? The most important issue in the 2016 election in the USA and a new movie on the movie circuit this week ? http://billmoyers.com/episode/full-show-inequality-for-all/ Kerneels On 9/25/2013 5:40 AM, Elardus Engelbrecht wrote: > Kerneels wrote: >> Old Farts : People in the USA that still think they are 21 , can work 18 >> hours a day, go home , make love, before falling a sleep for 3 hours , just >> to rush back to work , to make sure all the production systems are up and >> running on a Monday morning > > From below URLs: “He apparently pulled eight all-nighters in two weeks. They > get you working crazy hours and maybe it was just too much for him in the > end,” > > http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/slavery-in-the-city-death-of-21yearold-intern-moritz-erhardt-at-merrill-lynch-sparks-furore-over-long-hours-and-macho-culture-at-banks-8775917.html > > or (more or less same content) > > http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/banksandfinance/10255199/Bank-intern-who-died-after-working-for-72-hours-felt-pressure-to-excel.html > > Groete / Greetings > Elardus Engelbrecht > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 _____________________________________________________________ Netscape. Just the Net You Need. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
