On Tue, Sep 27, 2016 at 11:11 AM, Mitch Mccluhan < [email protected]> wrote:
> John, > > I've been working remotely for years. The issue is being relevant. Stay > on top of things. Look for areas that might benefit from your experience > and expertise. Don't miss ANY meetings, conference calls, etc. Don't be > shy about requesting anything and everything you would need to be an > integral part of the support team. > Which leads me to another question: how do you do meetings? Video conferencing? Skype? I don't have a camera on my home computer, but I do have a very nice (10 inch) Android tablet. > > Regards, > > > > Mitch McCluhan > [email protected] > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: John McKown <[email protected]> > To: IBM-MAIN <[email protected]> > Sent: Tue, Sep 27, 2016 10:57 am > Subject: remote system support (i.e. the data center is 2 states away from > you). > > This is kind of a curiosity question and kind of serious. There is a chance > that I might be offered a job where the data center is about 20 hours away > by car (according to Google maps). Needless to say, there is no going in > overnight to fix a problem. So I'm wondering if others here support a z/OS > system where getting to the data center would be a long commute (unless you > have your own plane, like some I know). How does that work out? In this > shop, we haven't had any "operators" for about 5 years, maybe more. We > systems people do all the hardware interfacing, tape management, IPL'ing, > and "CE baby sitting" (being on-site while they work). This is really > removed me from the historic paradigm. I somewhat like the thought of > working from the house. But I also worry about being somewhat excluded from > the unofficial information channels (i.e. company gossip). I also wonder > about things like meetings and just being "invisible" and so "out of mind" > when decisions are made. > > -- > Heisenberg may have been here. > > Unicode: http://xkcd.com/1726/ > > Maranatha! <>< > John McKown > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > -- Heisenberg may have been here. Unicode: http://xkcd.com/1726/ Maranatha! <>< John McKown ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
