Interesting read, but Mr Lewis has obviously never worked at any of the sites I have worked at (and I'm guessing many of my fellow mainframers on the list). I know many people over the years who have tried unsuccessfully to get the ears of upper management, and they take the comments made in the airline magazines as gospel while ignoring internal staff. I think they use the thoughts that "these people have been published so they must be right!" I can't tell you how many times we've told management to go down a certain path, and they ignore us until "Charlie the tuner" shows up as a consultant (from a minimum of 50 miles away and $300 per hour wages) shows up and tells them the exact thing we've already tried to tell them. Then suddenly this is the best thing since sliced bread!
OTOH, we've all also been in the situation where some hare-brained scheme comes down the pipe from either the afore-mentioned Charlie or the airline mag, and we've tried to talk mgmt into not following the consultant's half-baked advice, only to be ignored, and then having had to pick up the pieces and try to make the scheme work. Mind you, I'm not bashing all consultants and contractors, but Mr Lewis trying to place the blame all on the staff when mgmt conveniently ignores us (the very people they are paying to know these things) and placing so much emphasis on the airline magazine is misguided at best. My $.02. Rex ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
