>>>>http://www.wral.com/business/local_tech_wire/news/story/2387954/
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>>>>What I find interesting is that one of those who was fired complained that his training was inadequate and 'outsourced.'
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>>>They used to tell me there would be training and courses that would be part of working for big blue. Somehow the training never seemed to arrive. Oh well . . . . .
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>>You worked for IBM? Cool. Some of the youngsters probably don't even know IBM was the Microsoft of its time.
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>MVS Systems and VFP


MVS -- now that brings back memories. To me it was just the OS but I knew some guys who were about to dump the vats of boiling oil on each other over the virtues of MVS vs. VSE. Classic tech geeks back when not just anyone could be one <g>. Lock them up in the computer room and pass pizza and Coke in every six hours....