Posts by ps2os2

The real question is when Trump blows the planet up and there is nothing to come back to, what do the astronauts do?

Scammers are children compared to US scammers

Everyone in a while you pick up your phone and there is this unbelievable fast talking person after they get you to stay on the line for about 5 minutes, they then will start talking about your brothers and sisters with her name and they know what age they are, they go into extremely detailed discussion of your life and the amount of DEBT you have and about how much you owe in credit card debt. They also know how much you owe on your house and how they could get you a better rate.

I listened to one for two minutes he thought he had me fooled. I hung up on him, I don't have time for such foolishness. These guys are *GOOD*.

If you want the personal touch you can call these 1-800 (toll-free) and talk with a person that has a special talent and she will read you like you have never been read before. These girls are scary, They also get $5 a minute so they keep you on the line as long as possible.I am told these women are excellent talks and before long your phone bill is-logging with charges, first its $5 then connect time j

Is the blond in the article the same person that did this deal?

If it is, start watching out for the ditzy blond jokes as she is one of her own makings.

Uber

This is typical of a dot com company to treat its users so poorly. I would never use them as the people that I know can't make a living off of it and they do work 12 hours a day.

re: Has a customer ever apologized to you

My incident revolved around an auditor. He had a distrust of the mainframe where I worked. Whenever he called I was honest with him to a fault. Our security system was not IBM's but another one. He was always calling up and asking questions like why did I access this specific data set. I informed that that was part of my job as when a drive was just about to go, I would move all the data off of it to one that was ready for use. That way I told him there would never be calls at 0300 about a drive failing. I was also responsible for all the DASD on the system. It was typical for me to do hundred+ datasets at a time. He was suspicious of me. for some reason. I was installing maintenance on a copy of the system and all of a sudden I was seeing thousands of loggings of datasets that were *mine* (well they belonged to the system). I watched as the logging went up to 3000 or so. For the sake of good relations, I called him up and asked if he wanted to see what I was doing. The listing for applying maintenance can grow rather large as practically every system data set is updated, it was 6 foot high. I put it on a paper cart and took it up to his office and said where do you want me to go through this with you. He was surprised that the listing was so large.

I went through each update and why it was logged. I think his eyes glazed over as I went through every fix that went on. I asked him after 50 pages if he wanted to continue. and he said well could I come back later, I said yes. The next day he called me up and asked if I could start again. I said yes. I got a cola and went up there prepared to start up again. Sitting at the conference table was a VP and our security person and I thought oh no I am getting fired. I asked him if he wanted to start over and he said yes, I was not happy to repeat myself but I thought if I was going down for something, it wasn't what I was doing as it was part and parcel of every day on the job. So I explained the process of how IBM sends out fixes and a little bit on how they are packaged. So I started at the first logging message and what was going on. This was way over the VP's head but the security guy grasped the fundamentals and understood vaguely what was going on. He was getting into it pretty good and the VP fidgeted looking for a way out. I asked the security guy that what I was doing was normal and he said "yes". With that the VP got up and walked out of the room. I asked the auditor if I should continue and he said no. The auditor and the security guy got up and left. So I took 6 foot of paper back to my desk to go through by myself and was done in 2 hours as I knew what if any issues I had to look for.

After that I never was questioned about anything I did. The Auditor actually warmed up to me and apologized for getting me into the situation. He thought I was doing something I shouldn't have and he saw tha it was normal for me to update system data sets on a not currently used system.

Didn't the Swiss do this first?

I remember an article about the Swiss doing thi a year or two ago. Anybody remember?

Easy fix

Just get rid of all your Windows machines and convert to LINUX. And before the flames get too high, there are plenty of application that will run on Linux.

IBM then and now

IBM at one time was the top notch employer in the US. People lined up for jobs and were considered lucky if they were hired.

When I had a question on Sales I would walk over to the friendly IBM salesman that had his own desk in our office.

Ten years go by.

I had to ask around who our sales rep was, nobody knew.

I finally get a phone number. I call the person and he listens to my question and says something to the effect that your going to have to sign a contract in order to speak to tecnical person at IBM.

I asked HUH?

He tells me any question that has to be asked a technical person at IBM now requires a contract.

I left shaking my head.

IBM did a 180 turn around in 10 years. I couldn't even ask about a new CPU that we had bought, We had to sign a contract... sigh.

IBM used to be the customers friend and would gladly answer a question without a flinch.

IBM will pay for this in the long run.

Comcast is pretty bad

I am a comcast user and have been for 20+ years.

Kansas got the raw end of the deal becuase of Google. I know there are people desparate out there for cable but getting Comcast is a nightmare. Right now you just have lust in your hearts, but its better to have lust than broken promises from Comcast (aka Xfinity).

Now other nations are finally seeing the problem taxes

The US has "breed" the best tax experts in the world. NZ is seeing what the US has been having done to them what the IUS has been doing to us for years. They find a loophole and stretch it to fit them. Ireland is another Tax dodge, for the US as are other countries.

The US must get their system under control. Only one option has been suggested and everybody across the board rejects it (flat tax). GE a multi billion dollar company pays either zero or a few thousand. They broadcast the fact that they have the lowest tax rate in the US.

All those MBA's must justify their salaries and this is one way. If you fire them in a few years some one else will take their place.

I don't have an answer but our tax code is so complicated that it breeds this type of abuse.

Short sightedness loses business

I was astounded when I read the first stories of this andf found it unbelievable.

The more that came out the worse it was for VW.

Now, hopefully after the smoke has cleared I wonder if VW really knows how much they have damaged their reputation.

I for one would never buy a VW of any type again PERIOD.

Where is the Russian - Trump connection?

We know that Trump is entangled in the Russian Mob who is also involved with the Iranian guard in Azerbaijan, I am surprised that you didn't tie in the connection or is this the first layer of the onion to unpeel?

I want to know how a yearly salary of $12,000 (US) got to be a billionaire.

IBM office consolidation

Yikes, IBM sold their d/t building to condo types. I expect we will be seeing IBMers out on the street panhandlingm for office space.