On Tue, 24 Feb 2009 13:23:19 -0600, Mark Zelden <[email protected]> wrote:
>On Tue, 24 Feb 2009 12:48:51 -0600, P S <[email protected]> wrote: > >>...your: >> >>network folks >>security folks >>sysprogs >>applications programmers >>? >> > >1) Network folks >2) Security folks >3) Sysprogs >4) Application programmers > >:-) > >Ok... only half kidding. ... I have to agree, except that instead of "Sysprogs" I call them MVS folks (even when messing around with the /etc/ directory) CICS folks (even when they are working on DB2) us (when working on VTAM, TCP/IP, NetView, etc.) I've never worked at a shop where official names meant anything at all. I'm officially "Technical Specialist-Sr" which implies asolutely nothing. I think "Network folks" is particularly misleading ... especially when applied to me. I makes people think I might know something about networks, for instance. When branded with that label I usually responds "MVS system programmer specializing in communication software". (I may not know squat about a router but I know that Spin Loop message explains why VTAM and TCP/IP were brain-dead for a while.) Pat O'Keefe ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
