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To: EL KABONG!!! who wrote (19587)	6/8/2002 8:25:49 PM
From: Snowshoe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

most had never written a single line of COBOL code That was part of the problem with the guy I had to let go. The people responsible for hiring had overlooked the skill requirements in their zeal to hire someone "cheap" (i.e. where they could bill the client for $X and pay the programmer $X/3). Echoing your frustration about training people on legacy systems, I fondly recall the time I explained MVS mainframe disk allocation JCL to some of these COBOL newbies, and watching their eyes grow wide as saucers. Apparently these new-fangled systems handle that sort of thing automatically <ggg>.