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Re: Need an example CALL USING RETURNING

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In article <uurhmo$22csf$1@dont-email.me>,
Bruce Axtens  <snetxa@hotmail.com> wrote:
>On 6/4/24 21:04, docdwarf@panix.com wrote:
> > Find where they keep
> > their skels ('templates'), read the code and learn their songs.'
>Which is essentially what I tell the mentees somewhere in the 
>discussions I have with them.

I was contracted to build some CICS code a few years ago and the 'specs' 
said 'Accept and validate the date.'

I went to the Group Lead - a surly man who didn't have a moment for anyone 
who wasn't an employee: subordinates to torment, superiors to suck up to 
and peers to backstab - and asked 'What's your standard for this?'

The response was 'you're a contractor, it's a date routine, how hard can 
it be, stop bothering me.'

So... I looked at a stack of greenbar and saw where the copylibs were and 
I started to browse them for helpful hints.

Thirty minutes later the Group Lead brought me into the Corner Office 
Idiot's office and shouted 'I caught this guy browsing through our source 
libraries, he's probably a spy, looking to steal our code!'

I picked my jaw up off the floor and said to the COI I received an 
assignment asking for a date routine and I was trying to maintain site 
standards and decrease duplicate effort.'

'Yeah, that's the garbage he said to me, too... he's a contractor, he's so 
smart let him write his own!'

The COI shrugged and said 'He's the Group Leader and his Group follows his 
lead.'

I got back to my desk, called my headhunter and said 'I've just been put 
in an impossible situation and told 'our way or the highway'.  I'm taking 
the second option.'

The headhunter said 'Yeah, we get a lot of that from there.  If I see 
something else I'll call you.'

>Yeah, "real world" is an unreal term, I grant you that.

Things may be different now, what I related occured when YYYY started with 
19.

DD

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Need an example CALL USING RETURNING Bruce Axtens <snetxa@hotmail.com> - 2024-04-06 09:46 +0800
  Re: Need an example CALL USING RETURNING Arnold Trembley <arnold.trembley@att.net> - 2024-04-06 04:38 -0500
  Re: Need an example CALL USING RETURNING R Daneel Olivaw <Danny@hyperspace.vogon.gov> - 2024-04-06 13:47 +0200
  Re: Need an example CALL USING RETURNING Bruce Axtens <snetxa@hotmail.com> - 2024-04-06 20:29 +0800
    Re: Need an example CALL USING RETURNING docdwarf@panix.com () - 2024-04-06 13:04 +0000
      Re: Need an example CALL USING RETURNING Bruce Axtens <snetxa@hotmail.com> - 2024-04-06 21:11 +0800
        Re: Need an example CALL USING RETURNING docdwarf@panix.com () - 2024-04-06 17:04 +0000
      Re: Need an example CALL USING RETURNING R Daneel Olivaw <Danny@hyperspace.vogon.gov> - 2024-04-06 22:06 +0200
        Re: Need an example CALL USING RETURNING docdwarf@panix.com () - 2024-04-07 01:42 +0000
  Re: Need an example CALL USING RETURNING "Vincent Coen" <VBCoen@gmail.com> - 2024-04-06 23:27 +0100

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