Classification: Confidential CA tried this years ago with CA-Unicenter. All of the TSR's were supposed to be retrained as Unicenter tech reps.
Look where that went <G> ---Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> On Behalf Of Phil Smith III Sent: Monday, November 18, 2024 11:00 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: What can this mean? [CAUTION: This Email is from outside the Organization. Unless you trust the sender, Don’t click links or open attachments as it may be a Phishing email, which can steal your Information and compromise your Computer.] A private message I received says IBMers were all required to take online courses in AI and ChatGPT, and suggests that this might be the basis for the claim that everyone in the world has "expertise". I'm still suspicious of "65,000 consultants". I called that "a quarter of IBM" because I see numbers around 280K for worldwide IBM employee count, and I just can't believe that that (a) there are still anywhere near that many consultant positions after the Kyndryl spinoff and (b) even if there are still a ton of consultants, that it's 1:3 consultant:<the rest> where <the rest> has to include sales/support/dev/admin/financial/etc. I've worked for a lot of vendors, and with the possible exception of tiny shops where the founder is the main sales rep AND the lead developer AND goes onsite to do the installs, I don't think a quarter of any of those companies has ever been consultants, or in most cases even consultants+developers. -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> On Behalf Of Charles Mills Sent: Monday, November 18, 2024 11:30 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: What can this mean? It's like the job postings where they want three to five years of experience with some brand-new technology. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ::DISCLAIMER:: ________________________________ The contents of this e-mail and any attachment(s) are confidential and intended for the named recipient(s) only. E-mail transmission is not guaranteed to be secure or error-free as information could be intercepted, corrupted, lost, destroyed, arrive late or incomplete, or may contain viruses in transmission. The e mail and its contents (with or without referred errors) shall therefore not attach any liability on the originator or HCL or its affiliates. Views or opinions, if any, presented in this email are solely those of the author and may not necessarily reflect the views or opinions of HCL or its affiliates. Any form of reproduction, dissemination, copying, disclosure, modification, distribution and / or publication of this message without the prior written consent of authorized representative of HCL is strictly prohibited. If you have received this email in error please delete it and notify the sender immediately. Before opening any email and/or attachments, please check them for viruses and other defects. ________________________________ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
