On Apr 5, 2017, at 3:31 PM, John McKown <[email protected]> wrote: > > The company today told us that our outsourcing contract has been > terminated. The main reason given is the drastic change in the business > environment and needs. Basically, a lot of companies who jumped into the > health market have abandoned it due to their failure to make money under > the ACA. > > So, it looks like my job is secure for at least another 18 months. We will > be repatriating work back from the outsource to both our internal > distributed environment and z/OS. It is just a "reprieve" not a "pardon". > But 1.5 years will get me to full retirement age (assuming some damn pickup > doesn't kill me on the road).
Funny how these things happen. Our CIO started a project to “modernize” four or five years ago, with a goal to “get off the mainframe” by 2020. The first step was to outsource financials, payroll, and HR to a “cloud services” provider. After several delays the “get off the mainframe” date was postponed to 2022. Well, the outsourcing project is now being “rebooted”, the CIO retired last month, and there is no official date for getting off the mainframe any more. One of my coworkers was a little panicked when they announced the first date since that is well before he’ll be eligible to retire. I told him not to worry, the chances of it happening that quickly were pretty small. -- Pew, Curtis G [email protected] ITS Systems/Core/Administrative Services ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
