This reminds me a bit of that great Movie 'Space Cowboys'. (Made when Hollywood still had real stars!)
ALH -----Original Message----- From: Scott Ford <[email protected]> To: IBM-MAIN <[email protected]> Sent: Mon, 2 Nov 2015 14:40 Subject: Re: Fortran, assembly programmers ... NASA needs you – for Voyager • Job For Shane? Elardus, Yep, very funny...I see a parallel and not parallel universe, mainframe systems folks and developers retiring and mainframes going the way of Voyager 1 ... Scott On Monday, November 2, 2015, Elardus Engelbrecht < [email protected]> wrote: > Jon Butler wrote: > > >Is this remote work or will extended travel be involved? ;-)) > > > I foresee some serious terrible problems: > > 1. How do you motivate extended (and perhaps failing) dial-up time in your > overtime sheets? Those top-brass people (PHB, bean-counters and auditors) > don't understand technicalities... > > 2. Same for travel. I believe, AFAIK and the last time I checked, there > are no hotels, sightseeing points (you'll have to zip past those planets) > or repair facilities. Just remember to bring blankets, apparently it is > freezing out there ... > > 3. Now those Mars wannabee travellers don't have any plans to return due > to some problems, how will you travel back? Do you have any 'escape' plans? > > Is it already Friday ??? ;-)) > > Groete / Greetings > Elardus Engelbrecht > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] <javascript:;> 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
