> On Jun 22, 2017, at 3:07 PM, Tom Conley <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 6/22/2017 3:42 PM, Edward Gould wrote: >> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/06/20/ibm_contractor_crackdown/ >> <http://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/06/20/ibm_contractor_crackdown/> >> IBM's contractor crackdown continues: Survivors refusing pay cut have hours >> reduced >> Managers told to hit budgets, even if customers bleed > > IBM continues to devalue the systems programmer.
——————SNIP——————————————————————— I think it was around 1995 when an IBM instructor (in a SERVPAC Class no less) stated that IBM’s goal was to get rid of them (sysprogs). I challenged him about that statement. He looked men straight in the eye and said that was INDEED IBM’s goal. Ed ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
