I would like to weight in here. Dealing with customers everyday, unfortunately business has changed, what I am saying is a lot of places it seems to me, don't have a lost of good technical folks. If a person is willing to learn and acknowledge the source I have no problem.
I have a problem when a person would like "us" do technical planning for example for free without a SOW ...maybe I contracted too long, but I don't like being used for free. Scott On Sunday, February 28, 2016, Ed Gould <[email protected]> wrote: > On Feb 28, 2016, at 12:41 AM, baby eklavya wrote: > > *"The saddest part was the manager was not even literate on zOS systems. >> All he knew was to save cost. So slowly most of the wannabe system >> programmer left. Now he wants a 2 year experienced guys to run equal to >> his >> peer."* >> This is exactly what i was trying to convey . At the end , they never save >> anything . Whatever money they think they had saved by replacing >> experienced staffs with freshers goes out again in the form of penalty , >> missed SLA , change failures . >> >> Skill shortage is just one side of the story . When the work environment >> is >> controlled by such managers who only focus on saving cost , life becomes >> too difficult for beginners who want to learn and enhance their skills . >> They eventually lose their interest in the technology . >> >> I remember a recent quote from Forbes.com - "People don't leave the >> companies , they leave their managers" >> >> __________________________SNIP__________________________________ > > I had one of those at a company I worked for. He was officially a gas > meter maid that got promoted way over his position in life. > He would come to work everyday and sharpen pencils and stare at his wall. > He had no DP experience and wouldn't know how to logon to anything. > I sympathize for you but he can be gotten around. Now if his superior is > like him to you do have a problem. > I found it better to start looking. > > Ed > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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
