I spend a long weekend in that building every six months because Smith Bucklin--the company that manages SHARE conferences--moved there from the old Allstate building a few years ago. We go there for conference planning. The building is in good shape and fully occupied as far as I can tell.
I remember the wind well from my first trip there for a JES2 class in a distant early spring. From the window, a gorgeous sunny day with clear blue sky. Then step outside. Yikes. . . J.O.Skip Robinson Southern California Edison Company Electric Dragon Team Paddler SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager 323-715-0595 Mobile 626-543-6132 Office ⇐=== NEW [email protected] -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Karl S Huf Sent: Wednesday, May 24, 2017 9:09 AM To: [email protected] Subject: (External):Re: Looks like lots of folks in marketing said thanks but no thanks The building is still there at 330 N Wabash. I remember attending many, many classes there. If you were lucky/unlucky enough to be in a classroom on the east side of the building it was very difficult to concentrate as the views of the Wrigley Building, Tribune Tower, and the locks opening and closing between the Chicago River and Lake Michigan were quite distracting. A lot of us remember it most for the intense winds that were there - so intense that the building's plaza had a series of stanchions and ropes to provide people a way to anchor themselves and literally pull themselves to/from the building's entrance. The building is classified as a landmark and was designed by Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe; most students of architecture consider it a masterpiece. IBM sold it a little over 20 years ago and moved out a little over 10 years ago (now in the Hyatt Center on Wacker & Monroe). The building is now mixed use with a boutique hotel (Langham) taking up the lower floors and the AMA the rest. ________________________________________________________________________ _______ Karl S Huf | Senior Vice President | World Wide Technology 50 S LaSalle St, LQ-18, Chicago, IL 60603 | phone (312)630-6287 | [email protected] Please visit northerntrust.com CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This communication is confidential, may be privileged and is meant only for the intended recipient. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender ASAP and delete this message from your system. NTAC:3NS-20 P Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail. > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf Of Edward Gould > Sent: Tuesday, May 23, 2017 11:08 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [EXT] Re: Looks like lots of folks in marketing said thanks but no > thanks > > > On May 23, 2017, at 6:41 PM, Steve Beaver <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > As we all know IBM has started the no more Remote work. Looks like > > lots of folks in marketing said thanks but no thanks > > > > Earlier this year, IBM's Chief Marketing Officer Michelle Peluso > > announced that the U.S. marketing division's 2,600 employees would have to > "co-locate" > > or collaborate onsite from one of six cities. Those who worked > > primarily from home would have to move to one of the cities or quit IBM. > > > > For decades, IBM embraced remote work. Eight years ago, 40 percent of > > IBM workers worldwide telecommuted. As a result, it saved about $100 > > million a year in the U.S. and had reduced office space by 78 million square > feet. > > > > IBM remote workers who choose to resign rather than move to one of the > > six cities will be paid severance, according to an IBM internal > > document, of one month's base salary, the standard at IBM. Peluso says > > she plans to recruit replacements for those employees from the six > > co-located locations-not abroad. "If what I were trying to do was > > reduce headcount," she says, "there are much simpler and easier ways > > to do that, which would be less disruptive for everyone, myself included.” > > > Can’t speak for other cities but in Chicago, There is/was a building that > housed mostly IBMers for at least 30 years that I remember. The address was > 1 IBM Plaza. > It used to house IBM education/marketing and a data center (we IPLed the > first version of MVS there late one night (or was it morning?)) I spent many > weeks there in various IBM classes over the years. > A couple of years ago I went past the place and it looked deserted (and > somewhat dirty). > I had a few friends that worked for IBM over the years and they moved to the > East Coast and West Coast. > I keep in touch a little with one now EX IBMer he was in G-burg and then the > west coast. > I was extremely disappointed with IBM over the last say 20+ years. What was > once excellent Marketing people were reduced to call centers and it showed to > the customer. > We were an excellent customer of IBM and ordered the latest equipment > available and really got over the top engineering support and marketing > support. IBM once in a while would bring customers through our data center > to show off any new equipment. > When we had major issues with IBM equipment the place was overrun with > IBM types helping out and making good suggestions. One time our brand new > 168MP wasn’t quite dead on delivery but close to. IBM showed that they > supported the customer when a jet flew in from the east coast with about 20 > IBM types. They problem was found a part was supplied that fixed the issue > (too long of a tri lead wire going into the High speed buffer). Talk about > unreproducible S0C4’s. > > Then IBM started to go down little by little not as good support as they used to > have. People seemed to be leaving IBM faster than they could hire. They tried > to sell me a remote education class and I balked a little. I finally got them to > not charge the company if I found it was unsatisfactory. The second day of the > class I walked out and went to the person in charge and told them to refund > the money and to make sure they specified in the education catalog if it was > remotely taught. I stayed away from all remotely taught classes. > > Then somewhere around 1995 I found I needed to ask a person who has had > experience with encryption and key handling. (this was a 1-800 number) I was > told I was going to have to pay IBM to get an answer about their product, I > answered back I guess you don’t want to sell new hardware anymore and I > hung up) Then a few years laterI had some questions about hardware and > was told the same thing. > I only called IBM when we had a service contract. Even the IBM software > (parts of it anyway) broke every IBM rules there was. That was enough for me. > Good bye IBM it was nice for a while, not so much anymore. > > Ed ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
