Maggie’s Motivational Pic Thread v2.0 - - New Rules - See Post #1
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Live rounds. One in the air, one into the riot. Stops an invasion cold.
Well since y'all seemed to like the last one, here's another 
Ummmmm, that's still how it works, if you only check work emails ar work....
Yep that's how it should be, but my wife is constantly checking and dealing with work emails at home. I asked her what are we going to do with all this extra overtime money you are making....She looked at me like I was speaking Chinese.
Amazon's new delivery service option. It's called "The Drive-by"......
Driver even had the balls to snap the pic from the driver's seat.
Driver even had the balls to snap the pic from the driver's seat.
You can blame devices like the "Blackberry" for that. I was working on Wall St. when the Blackberry came into fruition. It made things so much easier for the bosses to bug you at home and outside work (even though cell phones with text/email and pagers had been invented before that).
To show you how things have evolved, I had a pager when I was still working in the Chicago area after school (early - mid 80's). It was receive only... you could not transmit on it just yet. Whenever I'd go "out of town," I'd have to let my boss know I'd be "unbeepable" for that time period.
After returning to the PRNJ for work, the company was larger and well known but still did things the old fashion way. I did have a bi-directional pager, but the expectation was that for critical system implementations (i.e. something going "into production for the first time," you should be able to come into the office to fix things, should something go wrong. These were for all the back-end systems that were critical to get work done so the online system could be up and running the next morning. Critical for sales/order processing. It was so critical that, in fact, they would pay for me to stay at a nearby hotel on the night a major change was being run "in production" for the first time (I lived about 50 miles away and had a 1.5 hr one way commute). This, until they were able to loan me a PC for home (and work) use. So I didn't have to travel in but could do the work remotely. It wasn't easy as we were still using dial up modems (incredibly slow) and no standardized Internet yet. Funny, when I quit that company, there were kind enough to let me purchase the PC from them, which I did. It was their own brand (they made them) but like an old style IBM PC (original one) as it had no HD's just floppies. It did, however, have a 9600 baud modem. Very slow.
Fast forward to Wall St where, in essence, my work did not involve that intense back-end batch stuff that had to be fixed immediately. Still, right after they came out, I was given a blackberry. So yeah, they could get me whenever they wanted. It's the reason why most Wall St. workers would take their vacations half way across the world (for me, Bora Bora) so we couldn't be contacted/disturbed.
Not that it would stop them. After all, by then, came Internet and "Webmail!"
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I work with a bunch of women like that. They all complain they just can't get away from work and the emails never stop. They are all emailing and responding to each other.
@4:01 time is that photo from the Vietnam Era?
Imperial, TX is no where special to visit. A friend and I left a ranch we were hunting in Brewster County, just east of the park. Headed north, he looks at me and said "You're going to think I'm full of shit, but if she's working we are getting lunch in Imperial. It will be the best brisket burrito you've ever had in your life." I said "BULLSHIT! There is nothing good in Imperial Texas!"
Well, the Abuela was working. Her food trailer set up at an old abandoned gas station, and the smoker running. Brisket burrito, homemade tortillas, homemade salsa, pinto beans. Super clean set-up she had. I paid her cash, and gave her 20% extra. Some of the best food I've ever had, and did not make us sick. Who would have though?
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@Fx51LP308, ahhhh, memories of switching over from VM to MVS & VSAM to DB2. But it did not end there. Calls @ 2:00 AM because a DB call hung the entire mainframe up & backend production which started at 5:00PM and most times was hard pressed to get done by the time I got in @ 5:00AM. There was an elusive bug that showed up every 5 years or so and we were never able to replicate it but always manifested itself in this major job stream. Retirement is good now!
Maxwell
Maxwell
Yeah, all the batch back-end stuff (that required hotel stays) was MVS/XA then ESA mainframe. Although, in my case, it was IMS DB/DC (well the DB part (DL1 - Hierarchical)). We used standard CICS for the communication. Now, for back-end batch, these guys would always convert the data bases to flat files and process the flat files, then re-converting them to DBs.
At the interim company beyond this one but before Wall St., it was still mainframe and CICS, but it was standard DB2. We used a CICS facilitator product called TELON. It helped you reduce time drawing CICS Maps and debugging them. Funny. For the longest time, I did not realize that DB2 Tables were just glorified VSAM files, anyway!
Wall St. was pure Client/Server using SUN/OS V880 and V1280 servers and using Sybase ASE for the DB. Of course, Solaris 8 and 10 workstations.
It’s good to see folks are putting in some effort, scrolling back a whole five or six pages to find something to share.
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Heartbreaking if you lived in that period of US History
This one is 5 or so years back in the scrolling but worth a repost.It’s good to see folks are putting in some effort, scrolling back a whole five or six pages to find something to share.
No that's a ballistic helmet and it looks like a Blackhawk.
Yeah, all the batch back-end stuff (that required hotel stays) was MVS/XA then ESA mainframe. Although, in my case, it was IMS DB/DC (well the DB part (DL1 - Hierarchical)). We used standard CICS for the communication. Now, for back-end batch, these guys would always convert the data bases to flat files and process the flat files, then re-converting them to DBs.
At the interim company beyond this one but before Wall St., it was still mainframe and CICS, but it was standard DB2. We used a CICS facilitator product called TELON. It helped you reduce time drawing CICS Maps and debugging them. Funny. For the longest time, I did not realize that DB2 Tables were just glorified VSAM files, anyway!
Wall St. was pure Client/Server using SUN/OS V880 and V1280 servers and using Sybase ASE for the DB. Of course, Solaris 8 and 10 workstations.
You guys are some sick motherfuckers. Everyone knows what you are thinking.
It's called "It won't be like that with a real dick".
I think you mean “When you’re a marine and use a pellet smoker”.
I was the only one that did CICS in the beginning. Some of my error messages in the test region were, ET call home, after you error entering data you are now on double secret probation, you are now in the house of the rising sun, little red riding hood I would like to ……and so on . A few times I did not take out all of my test messages, I thought it was funny!Yeah, all the batch back-end stuff (that required hotel stays) was MVS/XA then ESA mainframe. Although, in my case, it was IMS DB/DC (well the DB part (DL1 - Hierarchical)). We used standard CICS for the communication. Now, for back-end batch, these guys would always convert the data bases to flat files and process the flat files, then re-converting them to DBs.
At the interim company beyond this one but before Wall St., it was still mainframe and CICS, but it was standard DB2. We used a CICS facilitator product called TELON. It helped you reduce time drawing CICS Maps and debugging them. Funny. For the longest time, I did not realize that DB2 Tables were just glorified VSAM files, anyway!
Wall St. was pure Client/Server using SUN/OS V880 and V1280 servers and using Sybase ASE for the DB. Of course, Solaris 8 and 10 workstations.
I remember Telon…and workbench. Everyone thought it was great until it was not and the company refused to support it.
We had some system programmer that wrote an internal product that took your screen layout and converted it to a map. You just had to select alpha or numeric field, protected or not, highlight, and your notified data tag & field name ( where to move the output).
Still miss COBOLII CICS DB2 programming.
Maxwell
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