Rex, I know an ex-CIO who would not do anything unless she heard it from Gartner. Notice I say 'EX-cio". She was all set to kill off the mainframe because said mainframe is dying. 10 years later, mainframe still running as strong as ever.
On Tue, 8 May 2012 14:11:52 -0500, Rex Pommier <[email protected]> wrote: >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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
