Re: Mainframe JOBS in Austin

2017-03-20 Thread John McKown
On Mon, Mar 20, 2017 at 11:59 AM, Jon Butler wrote: > It's not libel if it's true...although they may know where you live ;¬)) > > ​But remember that, regardless of truth (per Pilate: "What is truth?"; John 18:38) you can still get sued and convicted for libel if the has

Re: Mainframe JOBS in Austin

2017-03-20 Thread Jon Butler
It's not libel if it's true...although they may know where you live ;¬)) -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: Mainframe JOBS in Austin

2017-03-13 Thread Todd Last
I live in Austin but I'm not going to attend SXSW. Way too many people. Are mainframe jobs open around here or are companies just recruiting? I haven't heard of any sysprog job open lately but I'm always looking. -- For

Re: Mainframe JOBS in Austin

2017-03-12 Thread Edward Gould
> On Mar 12, 2017, at 9:57 AM, scott Ford wrote: > > Ed. > > I am nost surprised, it seems critical thinking has disappeared or is > hiding. > It's like the cycle of a company centralizing IT resources and > de-centralizing..all at the whim of some mangler. > I feel you have

Re: Mainframe JOBS in Austin

2017-03-12 Thread scott Ford
Ed. I am nost surprised, it seems critical thinking has disappeared or is hiding. It's like the cycle of a company centralizing IT resources and de-centralizing..all at the whim of some mangler. I feel you have to have a long range game plan for company, products, etc. Scott On Sun, Mar 12,

Re: Mainframe JOBS in Austin

2017-03-11 Thread Edward Gould
> On Mar 11, 2017, at 8:17 AM, scott Ford wrote: > > Amen Jack, everyone doesn't get that mainframe sysprogs and developers > really aren't a dime a dozen. > > My dad used to say "buy cheap get cheap", see this everyday.. > > Scott Scott: A place I used to work moved

Re: Mainframe JOBS in Austin

2017-03-11 Thread Steve Beaver
My fat finger -- Sorry -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of John McKown Sent: Saturday, March 11, 2017 7:36 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Mainframe JOBS in Austin On Sat, Mar 11, 2017 at 5:13 PM, Steve

Re: Mainframe JOBS in Austin

2017-03-11 Thread Jack J. Woehr
Steve Beaver wrote: W@H home means you are up at 6 working at 0630, lunch in in the kitchen, and in the middle of the night you wake up To fix code you wrote or fix the system. If anyone is abused it’s the guy that works from home because they can find you anytime and you are not stuck in

Re: Mainframe JOBS in Austin

2017-03-11 Thread John McKown
On Sat, Mar 11, 2017 at 5:13 PM, Steve Beaver wrote: > Also H1B visas are all on a slow path. There is no way to pay a fee to > expedite a VISA after April 3, 2107 > ​Wow, that's like 90 years in the future! Oh, you typo'd 2017.​ -- "Irrigation of the land with

Re: Mainframe JOBS in Austin

2017-03-11 Thread Edward Finnell
Guess if you want more yield, plant more seeds! Think the US has slipped to 14th in education. Seems obvious we need more professors, more scholarships, better labs, better research facilities. Seems like would be a good task force for government and industry to address these critical

Re: Mainframe JOBS in Austin

2017-03-11 Thread Steve Beaver
going home with no access for 90 minutes or so. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Jack J. Woehr Sent: Saturday, March 11, 2017 5:15 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Mainframe JOBS in Austin Farley, Peter x23353

Re: Mainframe JOBS in Austin

2017-03-11 Thread Jack J. Woehr
Farley, Peter x23353 wrote: Interesting you say that you have seen W@H abused. I have not seen that at all here; quite the contrary -- the employer gets a great deal more of our development time than we're actually bound to do, just because it is so productive a way to work and so easy to do

Re: Mainframe JOBS in Austin

2017-03-11 Thread Steve Beaver
@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Mainframe JOBS in Austin The other thing in the same vein as Jack is talking about what said when I started this chain. With so few of us, stop accepting the $60/HR and push to $110/HR as if you were a LLC and charge for travel and living expenses Also as most of you know

Re: Mainframe JOBS in Austin

2017-03-11 Thread Steve Beaver
is in place and wants $10 out of what you are getting paid -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Jack J. Woehr Sent: Friday, March 10, 2017 11:19 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Mainframe JOBS in Austin Doug

Re: Mainframe JOBS in Austin

2017-03-11 Thread Steve Beaver
, Peter x23353 Sent: Saturday, March 11, 2017 3:19 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Mainframe JOBS in Austin Interesting you say that you have seen W@H abused. I have not seen that at all here; quite the contrary -- the employer gets a great deal more of our development time than we're

Re: Mainframe JOBS in Austin

2017-03-11 Thread Farley, Peter x23353
ppery thing). Peter -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of scott Ford Sent: Saturday, March 11, 2017 1:17 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Mainframe JOBS in Austin I have worked remote since 2006. You have to h

Re: Mainframe JOBS in Austin

2017-03-11 Thread scott Ford
I have worked remote since 2006. You have to have a company / mgmt that is willing to do it. I have since it abused also.. Scott On Sat, Mar 11, 2017 at 12:17 PM Mike Beer wrote: > IBM is currently moving the people back to the office. > > No more remote work. > > > > Mike > > >

Re: Mainframe JOBS in Austin

2017-03-11 Thread Mike Beer
IBM is currently moving the people back to the office. No more remote work. Mike -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: Mainframe JOBS in Austin

2017-03-11 Thread Jack J. Woehr
Dan Skomsky wrote: I'd take a look at it. Maybe examine a program or two and see if it looks interesting. Let ya know if it really happens. -- Jack J. Woehr # Science is more than a body of knowledge. It's a way of www.well.com/~jax # thinking, a way of skeptically interrogating the

Re: Mainframe JOBS in Austin

2017-03-11 Thread Dan Skomsky
: Mainframe JOBS in Austin scott Ford wrote: > Amen Jack, everyone doesn't get that mainframe sysprogs and developers > really aren't a dime a dozen. Somebody asked me the other day about converting 1000 programs from Assembler to Cobol. If that is jumping off (not sure of the deal) is

Re: Mainframe JOBS in Austin

2017-03-11 Thread Jack J. Woehr
scott Ford wrote: Amen Jack, everyone doesn't get that mainframe sysprogs and developers really aren't a dime a dozen. Somebody asked me the other day about converting 1000 programs from Assembler to Cobol. If that is jumping off (not sure of the deal) is anyone interested? Probably can

Re: Mainframe JOBS in Austin

2017-03-11 Thread John McKown
On Sat, Mar 11, 2017 at 8:58 AM, wjanu...@yahoo.com < 008d52e04f2e-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > These companies need to get out of the 'stone age'. > > ​Sound more like "We can't get qualified American citizens for our needs. Therefore we need to have more H1B visas!" I.e. People

Re: Mainframe JOBS in Austin

2017-03-11 Thread wjanulin
These companies need to get out of the 'stone age'. Sent from my mobile phone -- Original message-- From: Doug Fuerst Date: Sat, Mar 11, 2017 9:28 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU; Subject:Re: Mainframe JOBS in Austin I'm just trying to wait them out. If no one takes these "signif

Re: Mainframe JOBS in Austin

2017-03-11 Thread Doug Fuerst
-- From: "scott Ford" <idfli...@gmail.com> To: IBM-MAIN@listserv.ua.edu Sent: 11-Mar-17 9:17:12 AM Subject: Re: Mainframe JOBS in Austin Amen Jack, everyone doesn't get that mainframe sysprogs and developers really aren't a dime a dozen. My dad used to say "buy che

Re: Mainframe JOBS in Austin

2017-03-11 Thread scott Ford
Amen Jack, everyone doesn't get that mainframe sysprogs and developers really aren't a dime a dozen. My dad used to say "buy cheap get cheap", see this everyday.. Scott On Sat, Mar 11, 2017 at 12:19 AM Jack J. Woehr wrote: > Doug Fuerst wrote: > > > If I take these rates, I'll

Re: Mainframe JOBS in Austin

2017-03-10 Thread Jack J. Woehr
Doug Fuerst wrote: If I take these rates, I'll make less now than I did 25 years ago. There are fewer and fewer of us, and yet they demand more and more for less and less. Time to form a consulting LLC and work from home via VPN at high rates. They've marked down those who want "employment"

Re: Mainframe JOBS in Austin

2017-03-10 Thread Doug Fuerst
...@bkassociates.net -- Original Message -- From: "Steve Beaver" <st...@stevebeaver.com> To: IBM-MAIN@listserv.ua.edu Sent: 10-Mar-17 5:57:02 PM Subject: Re: Mainframe JOBS in Austin If you live there Chris, but you're in NY. Most of the mainframe folks do not live in

Re: Mainframe JOBS in Austin

2017-03-10 Thread Steve Beaver
-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Blaicher, Christopher Y. Sent: Friday, March 10, 2017 3:29 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Mainframe JOBS in Austin I was working from home, so traffic wasn't the biggest thing. The heat was. I can put another log on the fire up here

Re: Mainframe JOBS in Austin

2017-03-10 Thread Steve Beaver
Subject: Re: Mainframe JOBS in Austin But, that's a good thing for us old time mainframers already living in Austin isn't it? -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Bill Johnson Sent: Friday, March 10, 2017 3:01 PM To: IBM-MAIN

Re: Mainframe JOBS in Austin

2017-03-10 Thread Dan Skomsky
@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Blaicher, Christopher Y. Sent: Friday, March 10, 2017 3:29 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Mainframe JOBS in Austin I was working from home, so traffic wasn't the biggest thing. The heat was. I can put another log on the fire up here, but they arrest you

Re: Mainframe JOBS in Austin

2017-03-10 Thread Blaicher, Christopher Y.
@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Mainframe JOBS in Austin But, that's a good thing for us old time mainframers already living in Austin isn't it? ATTENTION: - The information contained in this message (including any files transmitted with this message) may

Re: Mainframe JOBS in Austin

2017-03-10 Thread Dan Skomsky
: Mainframe JOBS in Austin On Friday, March 10, 2017, 3:42 PM, Blaicher, Christopher Y. <cblaic...@syncsort.com> wrote: Growing 6000 people per month. That is why I left Austin. Traffic and HEAT. You can hit 90 any day of the year, and most days from April thru October it will be 90 to 10

Re: Mainframe JOBS in Austin

2017-03-10 Thread Allan Staller
SUPERCROC? Didn't they make a movie about that? ISTR it was called "LAKE PLACID" Growing 6000 people per month.  That is why I left Austin.  Traffic and HEAT.  You can hit 90 any day of the year, and most days from April thru October it will be 90 to 100+. I now live in a little town of

Re: Mainframe JOBS in Austin

2017-03-10 Thread Bill Johnson
G DATA -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Steve Beaver Sent: Friday, March 10, 2017 3:17 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Mainframe JOBS in Austin No doubt many of you have been or will be contacted for a gigs in Austin. S

Re: Mainframe JOBS in Austin

2017-03-10 Thread Blaicher, Christopher Y.
[mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Steve Beaver Sent: Friday, March 10, 2017 3:17 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Mainframe JOBS in Austin No doubt many of you have been or will be contacted for a gigs in Austin. Since I just left a job there here are some number to help you

Mainframe JOBS in Austin

2017-03-10 Thread Steve Beaver
No doubt many of you have been or will be contacted for a gigs in Austin. Since I just left a job there here are some number to help you. Austin in growing 6,000 per month To Find a place other than a hotel you will have to 60 miles out and have a 90 minute commute each way