The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to bit.listserv.ibm-main,alt.computers.folklore as well.
[email protected] (Chase, John) writes: > It's not (only) IBM "pushing down the pay scales". > > Like it or not, we live in a global economy, and "our" segment of that > global economy is such that anybody can do any of the work we do from > anywhere on the planet. As the initiators of the technological "wave", > we in the US have been riding the crest of that "wave" for a generation > or longer. Now that "wave" is beginning to "normalize" around the > globe, such that those in the "trough" are now rising and those on the > "crest" (us) are falling. Expect that trend to continue until the > "crest" and "trough" have leveled out. re: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009p.html#80 IBM driving mainframe systems programmers into the ground also, the corollary to "telecommuting" ... is "distance insensitive" i've been blamed for online computer conferencing on the internal network in the late 70s and early 80s. misc. past posts mentioning internal network (larger arpanet/internet from just about the beginning until possible late '85 or early '86) http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#internalnet -- 40+yrs virtualization experience (since Jan68), online at home since Mar1970 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
