No company loyalty since my Boeing Helicopter days, in 2001 I was offered a job in Arkansas working for an company that basically creates all the spam - targeted ad's you see on the internet, and they were also an outsourcer. I was for warned about this company they have a tendency to lay off every year or so just to make the numbers look good, in 2009 when I was the only local person that supported the Zos systems and the sysplex's while on vacation after a long weekend of working to get another client added to the PLEX, I get this call from the Boss in Downers Grove with HR on the call, seems my position was eliminated, typical for this company to take the folks that have worked there the longest and have the most experience to be outsourced themselves to a foreign country, my team leader about a year earlier told me no job is #1 and family is #2 his reasoning; if you don't have #1 then #2 is left with nothing, I now work for a company that respects me and my family time and I do all I can to help make this company successful.
----- Original Message ----- From: "scott Ford" <idfli...@gmail.com> To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Sent: Monday, February 13, 2017 9:06:16 AM Subject: Re: Loyalty Well i have a short story about loyalty. I was working for a huge American company in NYC. I had gone to Europe to help out on a Data Comm. project. During my 2 weeks in Europe I hear the company is laying off people for the HQ office in NYC. I call my manager and ask him, was I one of them ? He said ' of course not' ...I get back and I was ...The good side of the story is that the European HQ put a bid in for me and we ( me and my wife) moved to Europe. It was temporary. I was a placeholder for another people of that countries nationality. I was then let go for a reason that was not valid. Politics ...I never forgot what happened, but I learned ... On Sun, Feb 12, 2017 at 5:12 PM, Jack J. Woehr <j...@well.com> wrote: > Edward Gould wrote: > >> I have never trusted an employer since that time. I think all people >> should not trust their employers either. >> > > Define "trust". Certainly the feudal bond and /noblesse oblige/ are gone. > In return, we have more freedom to change employment at will and no employer > holds a résumé of 2-yr. short stays against us. The system is always > slanted against the working stiff; complaints survive from ancient > Mesopotamia > on that score! > > -- > Jack J. Woehr # Science is more than a body of knowledge. It's a way of > www.well.com/~jax # thinking, a way of skeptically interrogating the > universe > www.softwoehr.com # with a fine understanding of human fallibility. - > Carl Sagan > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
