What top management in large companies often doesn't understand is that we live in a capitalistic economy. If an employee can find better pay or better working conditions elsewhere, he is free to leave. Everything that I have read suggests that it costs a lot less to retain a professional than it does to replace him. Treat employees well and they may choose to remain even if they are offered more pay elsewhere, but if you are not loyal to them, don't be shocked if they treat you the same.
HR often has tunnel vision, but it's far from the only own. You have no idea how much havoc an autocratic procurement department can wreak. Remember, "If it doesn't come out of my budget then it'd not a cost."; what matters is my cash flow, not whether what I substituted for what you ordered will actually work. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of Bob Bridges [robhbrid...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2023 9:04 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Mainframe help now available! Regarding your first paragraph: To be fair to the "Human Resources" moniker, the point when it first became chic was to remind the Personnel department that people, too, are important to the organization. We don't abuse computers or desks, we don't waste pens or typewriter ribbons, we ought to treat the human beings too as valuable. Regarding your second: A change in terminology doesn't by itself fix an underlying problem. "HR" became the new word for "Personnel", but a company, to survive, still has to spend as little as possible and produce as much as possible. And the centralized HR folks can never understand your value as well as your boss can...even if your boss can't. --- Bob Bridges, robhbrid...@gmail.com, cell 336 382-7313 /* [Infant Sophie is] exploring her environment, as her brain learns to perform the incredibly complex set of functions we call human thought ("Maybe THIS will fit into my mouth! Maybe THIS will fit into my mouth! Maybe THIS will..."). -Dave Barry, 2000-09-17 */ -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> On Behalf Of Tom Brennan Sent: Monday, June 12, 2023 20:42 When things like the "Project Management Office" became common in maybe the late 1990's where I worked, they called us Resources. I remember writing a note back saying I'm not a lump of coal or even a vein of gold. The real problem though, was like you mentioned, they treated us as a simple headcount. That didn't work because it might take 10 of me to do the work of (for example) one good CICS person, if I can figure it out at all. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
