In a message dated 10/22/2007 5:09:38 P.M. Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >Operators (especially console operators) are extremely competent and if they screw up, IMO, they need to be fired. >That's just ridiculous.
I have seen operators who knew much more about what certain messages meant than I, the resident guru, did. I have seen midnight shift operators retire to the underground parking structure to smoke marijuana. I worked at a DASD vendor shop with NO operators, 110 LPARs, extremely bright and competent guru developers who had unlimited hands-on access to consoles, and anyone who deleted a non-deletable I/O error message before the microcoders could look at it would be fired. Different environments have different requirements. What should happen to a computer operator in the US Marine Corps whose typo causes an infantry platoon to be destroyed by friendly fire or a human error resulting in a $1 loss? One size does not fit all. Let the punishment fit the crime. Bill Fairchild Plainfield, IL ************************************** See what's new at http://www.aol.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
