On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 6:37 PM, Savor, Thomas (Alpharetta) < [email protected]> wrote:
> <snip> > > > We know that Outsourced folks aren't as good as local staff....problem is > Management doesn't see it that way. > They see a Cobol programmer is a Cobol programmer....not a Cobol > programmer with 40 years experience and 20-30 years on an application > verses a Cobol programmer right out of school. Those 40 years of > experience has shown me how to code a program or how to fix a > problem.....unfortunately many times it's because we know what will NOT > work. So, once we find a way or method of doing things, we stick with > it....it's called experience. > > I have a story on experience. Apparently a few years ago, when we were looking to just lay off 1 person, I was on the chopping block. Mainly because I was the most expensive person in the group. What saved me? I came in one morning to a hectic ant hill of activity. Turns out a critical application had failed during earlier that night. I had not been called because "it's an application problem". But, having nothing better to do that morning, I decided to give a look at it. About 10 minutes later, I got with my boss and said "why don't we try ... after all, it isn't going to be more broken afterwards". Another 10 minutes to implement (they were desperate and just tried it) and "poof" the problem is solved. They had been working on this for over 5 hours. Need I say that I was removed from the list of potential people to be released? Is it because I'm just inherently good? Well, more likely it's because I've seen a _lot_ of failures in my time. Like Thomas Edison said: " *I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." *I know a lot of things which "won't work". It cuts down the "solution space". -- The man has the intellect of a lobotomized turtle. Maranatha! <>< John McKown ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
