Not all boomerangs come back. Not all who throw a boomerang can make it come back.
Take it from an Aussie that has unsuccessfully thrown a few boomerangs. RON HAWKINS Director, Ipsicsopt Pty Ltd (ACN: 627 705 971) m+61 400029610| t: +1 4085625415 | f: +1 4087912585 -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> On Behalf Of ITschak Mugzach Sent: Friday, 23 August 2019 00:18 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: [IBM-MAIN] Attitude of companies toward mainframers working from home? John, It sounds like the buyer got an ausrellian boomerang, not an insurance company. your company migration story reminds me the australian that purchased a new boomerang, but was unable to get rid of the old one ;-) ITschak On Thu, Aug 22, 2019 at 2:36 PM John McKown <john.archie.mck...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Aug 21, 2019 at 3:46 PM Charles Mills <charl...@mcn.org> wrote: > > > I am doing a favor for a friend who is writing a blog article on the > above > > subject, with an emphasis on the effect of the shrinking mainframe > > personnel pool. (This is NOT some disguised headhunter pitch. Reply > > to the list or > to > > me personally. I will take full responsibility for "sanitizing" your > e-mail > > address and so forth out of what I forward to my friend.) > > > > Does your employer allow mainframe sysprogs and developers to work > > from home? > > > > Yes. The application programmers, both of them, oftern work from home. > The sysprogs generally don't. I'm a sysprog. If I were at home, I'd be > too tempted to play games. > > > > Any particular restrictions or qualifications? > > > > Restriction: get the job done. > > > > > Have they changed their policies specifically to address the > > shrinking mainframe personnel pool? > > > > Yes. They have said that we will be eliminated as soon as possible. > They've been saying this for over 6 years now with 2 failed attempts. > We were just bought out by a multinational who has reiterated that the > IBM z mainframes will be elimnated and the ;work moved to a software package > called Facets. > They are also said that this cannot occur quickly because we have so > many "customized" policies (health insurance) that Facets cannot > handle the thousands of variations. So they are waiting until they can > refuse renewal, convince the customer to change policies, or the > customer dies (I am guessing this later, management would never say > that.) > > > > > Roughly what percentage of your colleagues work from home? > > > > Both programmers, about 50% of the time. 3 sysprogs, almost never > because we need to be here to do "operations" duties -- like kicking > the accursed > 3494-B10 when it messes up (a fairly often thing, it being 13 years old). > > > > > > > Thanks! > > > > Charles > > > > -- > I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I > go into the library and read a good book > -- Groucho Marx > > Maranatha! <>< > John McKown > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send > email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > -- ITschak Mugzach *|** IronSphere Platform* *|* *Information Security Contiguous Monitoring for Legacy **| * ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
