RE: My Common Reno Experience

That sucks. FWIW, in the past, I've made attendance a part of my employment
agreement. Being a volunteer and getting my registration for free helped,
but only to a point.

The basic benefit was that the things I learned made me more valuable to my
employer's customers, and as a side item, allowed them to charge a higher
rate for my time.

Paul Nelson
Office 512-392-2577
Cell 708-670-6978
nelsonp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx


-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Colpaert, Peter
Sent: Thursday, April 30, 2009 8:18 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: RE: My Common Reno Experience

Do you really think I haven't tried that yet?

You must keep in mind that I work for an insourcing company (I think that's
the term, what I mean is that my company places IT people at customers'
sites).

There are over 250 IT people working for the company in Belgium, and about 5
of them work on iSeries.

Frankly, I'm surprised that they even bother to remain member of COMMON
Belgium as it is...

And I don't think the budget approval committee (at home) would let me pay
it out of our own pocket ;-)

Peter Colpaert
Software Engineer, Philips Consumer Luminaires

Industrieterrein Satenrozen 11, 2550 Kontich, Belgium
Tel. +32/ 3 450 74 09, Fax +32/ 3 450 74 33, Internal 1317
peter.colpaert@xxxxxxxxxxx, www.philips.com

Simply Switch to printing double-sided and printing less

-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:midrange-l-
bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Paul Nelson
Sent: donderdag 30 april 2009 13:51
To: 'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'
Subject: RE: My Common Reno Experience

Explain to your boss the when all is said and done, attendance at
COMMON is
free. The return more than covers the investment.

Paul Nelson

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