I agree. There's too much malicious pleasure in maligning or even just
imagining bad bosses. By comparison to the stories I hear, it seems to me
I've had more than my share of good ones.
Teachers too, by the way, back in high school and college.
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I'm reminded of a conversation on a forum a few decades ago about
counter-offers. I work at company
I'm reminded of a conversation on a forum a few decades ago about
counter-offers. I work at company A. Company B makes an offer to hire me
away, and I accept. Upon giving my notice, company A makes a counter-offer
in order to keep me. The ensuing discussion involved a complaint that this
shows
One thing I’ve noticed in 45+ years of working in the corporate world is CEO’s,
managers, wealthy people, and anyone else in positions of power are not the
smartest guys/gals in the room. The smartest people are the ones who don’t
strive to achieve power. Most of the smartest people I’ve met in
Today's large companies, IMO, are for the enrichment of the CxOs and large
stock holders. Some of the attitude today is similar to what caused "lower
class" workers to unionize.
On Tue, Jun 13, 2023 at 5:11 PM Phil Smith III wrote:
> Bob Bridges wrote:
> >I don't know whether it's fair to say
Bob Bridges wrote:
>I don't know whether it's fair to say so, but top management is often
>from the older crowd, and in their youth it was much more common for
>workers to need the job and feel fortunate to be employed. Nowadays,
>at least so it seems to me, many more people have a cussed
I don't know whether it's fair to say so, but top management is often from
the older crowd, and in their youth it was much more common for workers to
need the job and feel fortunate to be employed. Nowadays, at least so it
seems to me, many more people have a cussed independent streak and feel
LOL! Years ago I gave an internal customer my estimate on a minor task, and
he went to my boss hoping to get a better answer. My boss discussed it with
me, and I told him I'd probably have it done in two or three days but that's
only if everything went right (and you know how often that
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I knew a couple of VP's who didn't unde
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Regarding your first paragraph: To be fair to
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Hi All,
This Is Rebecca Richards, my Late Robert Richards who was a contributor on
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47 AM
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Orchestra conductor talking to a violin player: "I know you usually play the
violin, but today we need another french horn player. You are a musician. You
can do it."
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Hi All,
This Is Rebecca Richards, my Late Robert Richards who
Hi All,
This Is Rebecca Richards, my Late Robert Richards who was a contributor on
here and a Senior Systems Programmer with Dine Development Corp.
I recently got certified for Studies to be a z/OS Systems Operator and Entry
level Systems Programmer and im still continuing my education while
Nice Sabbath reference.
Robert Crawford
Abstract Evolutions LLC
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This also
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Regarding your first paragraph: To be fair to the "Human Resources" moniker,
the point when it first became chic was to remind the Personnel department that
people, too, are important to the organiz
This also fits into an easy game. Name that song:
"Treating people just like pawns in chess, wait till their judgment day
comes, yeah!"
On Tue, Jun 13, 2023 at 9:47 AM Tom Marchant <
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> Orchestra conductor talking to a violin player: "I know
Orchestra conductor talking to a violin player: "I know you usually play the
violin, but today we need another french horn player. You are a musician. You
can do it."
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Regarding your first paragraph: To be fair to the "Human Resources" moniker,
the point when it first became chic was to remind the Personnel department that
people, too, are important to the organization. We don't abuse computers or
desks, we don't waste pens or typewriter ribbons, we ought to
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I knew a couple of VP's who didn't understand why mainframe folks weren't
interchangeable.
You
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LOL. When things like the "Project Management Office" became common in maybe
the late 1990's where I worked, they
LOL. When things like the "Project Management Office" became common in
maybe the late 1990's where I worked, they called us Resources. I
remember writing a note back saying I'm not a lump of coal or even a
vein of gold.
The real problem though, was like you mentioned, they treated us as a
On Mon, 12 Jun 2023 at 22:13, James FRSolutions
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> FR Solutions has programs to help find resources or build new resources
> for organizations in search of Mainframe professionals. With the
> marketplace shrinking in the MF skills area, we can help.
>
Yes, great catch and sorry about that, the website is correct but spell check
needed here. :) Thank you.
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Don't you mean immersion?
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> FR Solutions has programs to help find resources or training emersion for
> new resources for organizations in search of Mainframe
FR Solutions has programs to help find resources or training emersion for new
resources for organizations in search of Mainframe professionals. With the
marketplace shrinking in the MF skills area, we can help.
https://www.frsolutionscorp.com/mainframe
FR Solutions has programs to help find resources or build new resources for
organizations in search of Mainframe professionals. With the marketplace
shrinking in the MF skills area, we can help.
https://www.frsolutionscorp.com/mainframe
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