Re: Performance Review

["Alan Cassidy" <acassidy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Early in the 400 days, one of my courses in programming on the /400 was for
a very well-known international bank, that had just acquired one to convert
from the S/36. Management had decided to get one after they started losing
their best programmers to shops that were getting on the /400.

- Alan


----- Original Message -----
From: Scott Klement <klemscot@klements.com>
To: <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com>
Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2001 7:41 PM
Subject: RE: Performance Review


<snip>
> I partially agree with you, Ed.  A program must be maintained, and the
> staff has to be able to maintain it.   However, I don't think its fair
> for a T.S. programmer to be forced to stay behind technology forever
> just because another person doesn't want to learn something new!
>
> The person who wants to learn needs to be given opportunity to do so,
> otherwise he'll get bored and leave, or he'll get frustrated and his job
> performance will suffer.
>
> The solution, of course, is to have some sort of a middle ground.  Hold
> the T.S. programmer back here and there, and make the "set in his ways"
> programmer learn here and there.
>
> You can't stay running on a System/36 just because one guy doesn't want
> to learn RPG III, CL, externally defined files, etc.  Technology must
> be allowed to progress, or you AND YOUR BUSINESS, will be left behind.
>
>


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