[Info-vax] Just when you thought the VAX was dead...

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 1/21/22 2:34 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2022-01-21, Bill Gunshannon <bill.gunshannon at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I was bored this morning and it's too cold to even go the the gym,
> 
> How cold is cold ? :-)
> 
> (And how does it compare to northern Europe such as in Norway or Sweden ?)
> 
>> so......
>> I was looking at the job market in various skills I have.
>>
>> Amazing how many VAX/VMS jobs are still looking for people considering
>> that VAX VMS is officially dead.  :-)
>>
> 
> I suspect when people start advertising for jobs to work with x86-64 VMS
> systems, some of them will still call it "the VAX". :-)
> 

As I said, boilerplate.  Some of those same jopbs wanted Windows-NT
experience.  I think we have reached the point where one can not tell
what the job they are applying for actually is.  Not a new phenomena
but one that is becoming much more prevalent.

Reminds me of the last two jobs I held back in 2012.  First job was
as a COBOL Programmer.  At the end of the interview they aske4d if
I had any questions.  i said, yes, one.  I then said, "Do you realize
that you didn't ask me a single question regarding COBOL?"  They
kind of looked back and forth at each other and said, "Your right."
After 3 months there they rold me I was being scheduled for a class
in PL/SQL.  Being as I already knew PL/SQL I was not impressed.  I
left about a month later as they wanted me to do things I had not
signed up for.  They still have a bunch of cobol, but were never
able to find someone else to come there to take over the maintenance.
The next was even worse.  I was hired to be a Unix (specifically
HP/UX) system administrator.  Less than a month after hiring me
I was informed they only had one Unix box and it was scheduled for
deactivation within 6 months at which time I would be moved over to
the Windows System Administrators camp.  I was there about one
month.  I learned as I was leaving that the day I started the rest
of the office had a pool on how soon I would leave.

Now I just read these vacancy announcements for their humor value.

bill