Gerhard, Boy, you put into words my thoughts of many years and installations and two ISVs.
Thank you Scott ford www.identityforge.com from my IPAD > On Jan 8, 2014, at 10:30 AM, Gerhard Postpischil <gerha...@charter.net> wrote: > >> On 1/8/2014 9:05 AM, Govind Chettiar wrote: >> It's pretty creativity-stifling to work in a company where the threat >> of being fired looms. If one works for a firm that has annual RIFs >> just as a matter of practice and one is constantly in fear of setting >> a foot wrong lest one get on that list, then one is not going to do >> anything more than the bare minimum. No one wants to work a single >> extra minute in that kind of environment. Absent such a fear, one is >> more willing to take risks, be innovative. > > I worked for an ISV that had a very relaxed environment, and if you finished > your work on time, could experiment. They were victims of their own success, > getting bought out by a larger company. Their policies required an annual > review, and the lowest scoring individual in each group was fired. One year > that was the maintainer of their top selling product. > > But even without RIFs, some environments can be stifling. The staff in some > government installations seems to fall into two categories - those who are > capable and learn how to avoid pitfalls of rules, and those with marginal > skills. As a case in point, I did some contract work at one agency that > required all jobs using tapes to contain JCL comments listing, by data set > name, all volumes to be mounted, in sequence, with precise formatting > requirements. They had a command that would show the volumes for a data set, > but the user still had to edit each job almost every run. I suspect that they > had this process as long as they had TSO; after a while I got sick and tired > of this, and wrote an EDIT macro that did the necessary work. Sometimes a > fresh look is helpful. > > Gerhard Postpischil > Bradford, Vermont > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
