Re: how to list LE options

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ITYM "dumb" rather than "stupid" ("dumb" is curable via education;
"stupid" is as "stupid" does).

That was actually a stated policy in a university (!!) where I worked
previously. In that boss's own words, "If we allow you more training,
your marketability will be enhanced and you'll leave us for more money
somewhere else."

Well, "No $h1t, Sherlock!"



John,

Thanks for reminding me of this. I had put this out of my memory. (wish it had never happened ).

The senior VP of a company that I worked for had this belief. He would never send anyone for training no matter what. At the time the way they scheduled jobs was to read all the jobs into the input Q with typrun=hold, and then depended on the operator to release them in the right sequence.
The number of jobs that were read in grew to be over 1000 and the poor operator had a hell of a time keeping track of them. AFter a few mistakes and the time lost from the mistakes the market didn't open on time (we were fined big time). They finally decided to get a job scheduler. The went out and found one and purchased it. They thought they had worked out how to use it. The first night was almost catastrophic. They just didn't understand how to schedule for it. Instead of training their people the decided to hire "consultants" the next attempt was a little better (at least the market opened on time). This went one for several weeks finally a news system was to be turned over to production and the proverbial hell arose . The market did not open on time either. The VP was called on the carpet for a dressing down like he had never gotten before. The next day we had a 5 people appear out of nowhere from the vendor to give classes for the scheduler and the production control people were given an intensive 2 day class. Even the night shift people were brought in. The results were self evident they rewrote the nights schedule with some help from the trainers and the next night the production ran rather well. Yes there were some rough edges but the jobs did get done in the right sequence. From then on the VP always made it part of the job for training. It took him getting raked over the coals to get it to happen.

Ed

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