Subject:	Re: IMS GURUS
Date:	1999/07/08
Author:	cory hamasaki <kiyoinc@ibm.XOUT.net>
	Posting History

Pollies, explain this one.  I found it in bit.listserv.ibm-main.   The polly spin is that the work has been done, IT jobs are scarce, and that it's all over except for the drunken orgy in 176 days.  (even though I'm not a drinker, I'm looking forward to having nude, comely maidens feed me grapes while I ride a burro.)   My take is that there have been a lot of meetings, happy-talk brochures printed, and relatively little fixed.  We've had brochure writers crow about their accomplishments, seen best-of-the-best outfits like Monkey County caught having Y2K problems.   Now that everyone is compliant and just waiting for the signal to make the Y2K claims, here's an Indian company spamming the mainframe newsgroup for specialty programmers to come-to-India.   On Thu, 8 Jul 1999 07:47:31, atul_bajaj@my-deja.com wrote:   > A multinational company, based in India is looking for IMS > professionals, with more than 4 years experience in development and > support. Posting will be in New Delhi, India. > > > Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ > Share what you know. Learn what you don't.   Could it be?  Port Outbound, Starboard Home.   Could they be looking at liquidated damages?  Is it time to rack up the rates?  Why would a USA-ian (or European) programmer work in New Delhi?   There're billions of dollars of contract money sloshing around, even the most neponistic beltway bandit will run out of loafer brother-in-laws and clueless ex-girlfriends of the CEO eventually.   And keep buying the tuna (the fishermen need the money), the beans and corn (the farmers need the money), come on, do it for their children.   Next year if Y2K is a fizz, we'll buy nice sirloin steaks(the cattle ranchers need the money), grill them over the propane or wood you've been hoarding, and make steak fajitas. The beans and corn will not go to waste.  I love this stuff.  Thick juicy cholesterol dripping steaks cooked up over an open flame,  heaping dish of beans and corn, ohhh-ma-ma; crack open a box of the Velveeta and melt it on the beans and corn.   And if it is as bad as Info and milne fear, beans and corn will keep you going for a long time.    cory hamasaki  http://www.kiyoinc.com/current.html 

-- a (a@a.a), July 09, 1999

Answers

This is reading a lot into one job ad. Just because the main market for IMS programmers is Y2K remediation, and the Indians do a lot of (bad) Y2K work. After all - maybe they want to convert their old IMS hierarchical data bases to relational. Maybe they're looking for Indian programmers working abroad, who want to be home on 1-1-00.

-- kermit (colourmegreen@hotmail.com), July 09, 1999.

Heck of a leap of logic there.

-- Paul Davis (davisp1953@yahoo.com), July 09, 1999.

Paul,

I agree with your above comment completely (one of the few times I am able to side with you on this). The thing that is so fascinating about Cory is his ability to make these logical leaps so easily. For those who can't, it is a major frustration, isn't it Paul?

-- Gordon (gpconnolly@aol.com), July 09, 1999.

In Cory's defense, in his "Weather Reports", he does often point out that his sole area of expertise is big mainframes, and that he is just guessing about implications beyond the current state of mainframe remediation.

-- Anonymous99 (Anonymous99@Anonymous99.xxx), July 09, 1999.

And there are some of us that are really curious about Cory's claimed expertise even in the mainframe world...

Yours in COBOL... Dino!

-- (COBOL_Dinosaur@yahoo.com), July 09, 1999.

Anyone care to guess who the "some of us" are?

www.InsideTheWeb.com/messageboard/mbs.cgi?acct=mb237006&MyNum=92782473 2&P=Yes&TL=927772041

Debunking Y2k webboard, Re: Y2K as Religion - Comets and Koolaid, Thursday, 27-May-1999 13:05:32, 206.146.129.33 writes:

This thread is essentially correct - if I am reading it right. The DOOM crowd has not only gotten millitant over the coming "Armageddon", but they are literally PREACHING it.

I am wondering if many of these folks:

A) Missed the comet when it came by a few years ago.

B) Were too chicken to drink the koolaid?

Now don't get me wrong here. I am not a polly, or a doomer - I am probably on the polly-side of the middle of the road. Much of the bandwidth of the Y2K subject in general is taken up with fanatics on either side! Where the heck is the common sense in people?????

Yours in COBOL... Dino!

COBOL Dinosaur

-- Don't (like@kool.aid), July 09, 1999.

Dont,

In answer to your question look here:

http://www.greenspun.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg.tcl?msg_id=000uib

I am close to the end of the list of respondants.

Yours in COBOL... Dino!

-- (COBOL_Dinosaur@yahoo.com), July 09, 1999.

But are YOU prepared to drink koolaid for the Kaiser?

-- Sharky (jshark@spectr.com), July 09, 1999.