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Anne & Lynn Wheeler <l...@garlic.com> writes: > I had done a lot of stuff for cp67 as undergraudate ... that was picked > up and shipped in the product. For the morph from cp67->vm370 much of > that was dropped as "simplification". Now, all during the future system > effort, I continued to do 370 stuff (and ridiculed pieces of the FS > activity ... which wasn't exactly a career enhancing thing to do, since > the senior executives were still senior executives after the dust > cleared). Misc. old email about 370 stuff: > http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006v.html#email731212 > http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006w.html#email750102 > http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006w.html#email750430 re: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009r.html#49 "Portable" data centers in the early 80s, I wrote a "open door" about my salary and being underpayed. After a couple weeks, I got back a written response from HR saying that they had studied my completely employee history and I was being payed exactly what I was suppose to. This was about the time I was being asked to interview new hires ... supposedly to work in a new group under my (technical) direction. They told me what HR was offering them as starting salaries. I then wrote I follow-up to HR's response ... pointing out that they were offering starting salaries to these new hires that was 1/3rd more than I was currently making. A couple weeks later I got the first of a series of raises that would eventually bring me up level to starting salaries that HR was offering the new hires that I was interviewing. It was (then) fairly obvious that HR's initial response wasn't true. old post mentioning being told "never forgive you for being right" http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007e.html#48 time spent/day on a computer misc. recent posts referencing "business ethics is oxymoron", Boyd's "to be or to do", and/or the "never forgive you for being right" quote: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009.html#53 CROOKS and NANNIES: what would Boyd do? http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009b.html#25 The recently revealed excesses of John Thain, the former CEO of Merrill Lynch, while the firm was receiving $25 Billion in TARP funds makes me sick http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009e.html#37 How do you see ethics playing a role in your organizations current or past? http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009g.html#56 Old-school programming techniques you probably don't miss http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009h.html#5 mainframe replacement (Z/Journal Does it Again) http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009h.html#71 My Vintage Dream PC http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009h.html#74 My Vintage Dream PC http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009k.html#73 And, 40 years of IBM midrange http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009o.html#47 U.S. begins inquiry of IBM in mainframe market http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009o.html#52 Revisiting CHARACTER and BUSINESS ETHICS http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009o.html#57 U.S. begins inquiry of IBM in mainframe market http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009p.html#34 big iron mainframe vs. x86 servers http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009p.html#60 MasPar compiler and simulator http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009q.html#37 The 50th Anniversary of the Legendary IBM 1401 http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009q.html#38 The 50th Anniversary of the Legendary IBM 1401 http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009r.html#6 Have you ever though about taking a sabbatical? -- 40+yrs virtualization experience (since Jan68), online at home since Mar1970 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
