Yep, I agree , trying to explain to manglers , aka managers , what a sysprog does and has to know...my old age is showing, 62 in August , some ppl just don't get what we do..
Scott Ford Senior Systems Engineer www.identityforge.com On Apr 27, 2012, at 5:14 AM, Thomas Berg <thomas.b...@swedbank.se> wrote: >> -----Ursprungligt meddelande----- >> Från: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] För >> R.S. >> Skickat: den 27 april 2012 11:04 >> Till: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu >> Ämne: Re: SV: Mainframe Skills Scarce? (z/OS Mainframe & CA Product >> training ...) >> >> W dniu 2012-04-27 10:35, Thomas Berg pisze: >> [...] >> >>>>> If true, why are so many skilled mainframe professionals -- >>>> particularly >>>>> sysprogs -- looking for work? IJS... >>>> >>>> - More skilled ones are to expensive >>> >>> They aren't. It's just that the hiring bosses think so because they >> are fixated at the view that non-management personals should be payed >> much less than management personals. >>> In a rational world there wouldn't at the same time have people saying >> that it's hard to get skilled mainframe personal and have many skilled >> mainframe sysprogs looking for work (and not getting any). >>> >>> If you really need, e g, a skilled sysprog it's no problem to get one: >> just put some more money on the pay - and do a decent research to get >> the right person. >>> But CIOs today isn't interested as they are constantly looking at the >> next step in their careers. >> >> Let me rephrase it: It is TYPICAL IN OUR WORLD. >> Is our world reasonable? >> Well... I think it's completely unreasonable that poor soccer player >> earns much more than prime minister or university professor. It's >> unreasonable to pay fortune for Madonna's brassiere. It's unreasonable >> that, for example some celebrity's divorce is a news of the day, and >> blue laser is completely ignored. However it's typical, so it's NORMAL. >> And it's (unfortunately) normal, that managers prefer young candidates. >> It's bad, stupid, illegal, but normal. > > We have met the enemy and he is us ? :) > > > > Regards, > Thomas Berg > ______________________________________________________ > Thomas Berg Specialist AM/DQS SWEDBANK AB (publ) > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
