The blue team was in the other day and I sat through the entire 2 hours of how much money running Linux on the Z would save us. It sounded great on paper. As I was leaving with the AIX guys they could barely contain themselves so I asked what was so funny. They gave me the summary of how the last time several years ago we tried this with results that were similiar if not worse then the perivous poster. We would have spent many many millions to run our p series and or the i series servers. I'm sure we will take another shot at this but, even as a Blue supporter, buyer beware.
Yep, some managers sit in their office and do nothing just like some developers do. If I am not interacting with my team, I get the joys of doing hr paperwork, setting goals and objectives, fending off senseless work for my team, finding good projects for my team. This didn't touch on handling soft skill problems like team problems, getting rid of employees that are sucking the life out of the company and trying to move the good ones forward in their career. This gets done between trying to fight production problems. I know which one of my team (25 plus) work and don't. The greatest monitoring system is your peers. Good people hate loafers and the unskilled......
Yep, best person in the last two years to join my team came from the helpdesk. Had a CS degree and was willing to do and learn anything. Always on the look for these guys. I would take fresh from school grads with a good attitude and some experience with things like open source software.
Last week I conducted 7 interviews for one of the four positions I have open. All resumes looked good, not a single US citizen.. Four sucked so bad they had no chance on the technical portions. One could not be understood so maybe he was technically qualified, maybe not. The remaining two were able to answer 60% of the technical questions about something they claimed to have 5 years experience in. If you become skilled and have a good attitude, ie a willingness to attend meetings, work long hours (often you will be paid for every hour worked) and can get along with other homosapiens you can be guaranteed a position. For those that don't believe me and meet the above requirements with skills in Siebel admin, WMQI admin, AIX applications, IDTI or Siteminder/Transactionminder send me your resume and a contact method.
Bottom line if you love IT you can excel....
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The blue team was in the other day and I sat through the entire 2 hours of how much money running Linux on the Z would save us. It sounded great on paper. As I was leaving with the AIX guys they could barely contain themselves so I asked what was so funny. They gave me the summary of how the last time several years ago we tried this with results that were similiar if not worse then the perivous poster. We would have spent many many millions to run our p series and or the i series servers. I'm sure we will take another shot at this but, even as a Blue supporter, buyer beware.
Yep, some managers sit in their office and do nothing just like some developers do. If I am not interacting with my team, I get the joys of doing hr paperwork, setting goals and objectives, fending off senseless work for my team, finding good projects for my team. This didn't touch on handling soft skill problems like team problems, getting rid of employees that are sucking the life out of the company and trying to move the good ones forward in their career. This gets done between trying to fight production problems. I know which one of my team (25 plus) work and don't. The greatest monitoring system is your peers. Good people hate loafers and the unskilled......
Yep, best person in the last two years to join my team came from the helpdesk. Had a CS degree and was willing to do and learn anything. Always on the look for these guys. I would take fresh from school grads with a good attitude and some experience with things like open source software.
Last week I conducted 7 interviews for one of the four positions I have open. All resumes looked good, not a single US citizen.. Four sucked so bad they had no chance on the technical portions. One could not be understood so maybe he was technically qualified, maybe not. The remaining two were able to answer 60% of the technical questions about something they claimed to have 5 years experience in. If you become skilled and have a good attitude, ie a willingness to attend meetings, work long hours (often you will be paid for every hour worked) and can get along with other homosapiens you can be guaranteed a position. For those that don't believe me and meet the above requirements with skills in Siebel admin, WMQI admin, AIX applications, IDTI or Siteminder/Transactionminder send me your resume and a contact method. Bottom line if you love IT you can excel....