I've been working at home exclusively (except for customer engagements) since 1996 or so.. I think I'd have retired much sooner if I'd had a daily commute to deal with. In this virtual world - physical location means less and less.
I'm not sure there's anyone on my team less then 50 - so that rumor may be true :-) I'll be passing a baton to someone who may or may not make it to the next leg .... :( Scott Rohling On Fri, Nov 16, 2018 at 5:24 PM Alan Ackerman <alan.ackerma...@gmail.com> wrote: > I’m 71. So far I have no desire to retire and have not been encouraged to > leave. I’m not aware of age discrimination here. > > Several years back (5-10) we were encouraged to go work at home. I may > have been the last one to take the offer. I’m gregarious by nature, but > eventually I was surrounded by empty cubicles and attending all meetings by > phone. New management came in and wanted us all to come back in to work. > For a few years I’ve been told Concord (CA) is next. Quite a few people > went back in this month. But I was not contacted. The rumor is that > management has decided not to bother mainframers for fear we will retire > rather than going back into work. (Might be true!) > > This is relevant to this discussion because it appears to be the reverse > of what happened at IBM. > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Nov 16, 2018, at 3:14 PM, Rick Troth <r...@casita.net> wrote: > > > On 11/16/18 4:33 PM, Gabe Goldberg wrote: > > > https://features.propublica.org/ibm/ibm-age-discrimination-american-workers/ > > > > > > No surprises, just a lot of details... > > > As it happens, I just learned this week that a good friend was cut loose > from a certain other company. I won't say which, but I used to work > there. He said new manglement decided to get rid of "long timers". The > way he said it, the ax was more about longevity ... "you say that like > it's a bad thing". It struck me that the new owners wanted firm control > or some such. Brilliant: get rid of the people who know the products, > business, customers best. Just camp on that juicy IP and stack-o-patents > and brand. oy > > My buddy is definitely running into ageism on his new search though: > lots of interviews, no offers. > > Re-invent yourself, retrain, reassign, relocate. BT/DT and would again > for the right job. But I don't think these execs really want to hire > skill, talent, or know-how. > > Paul Henry is mentioned in the ProPublica piece. I know him! He hired me > at Nationwide. I remember his thick Boston accent as he baited me, > "We're serious about virtualization". > > -- R; <>< > > > > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or > visit > http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For more information on Linux on System z, visit > http://wiki.linuxvm.org/ > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or > visit > http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For more information on Linux on System z, visit > http://wiki.linuxvm.org/ > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
