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Started by Rogers64, October 28, 2008, 06:11:04 PM

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TURobY

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October 30, 2008, 03:08:14 PM Last Edit: October 30, 2008, 03:09:29 PM by TURobY
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Originally posted by nathanm



The problem is finding well qualified people willing to drive to Pryor.


Ding ding ding! Most of the qualified people already live in the city and can find well-paying jobs here. I don't know many people willing to drive an hour to get paid the same in Pryor as if they drove 15 minutes to a job in town.
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TulsaEx

#16
October 30, 2008, 03:22:35 PM
There must be more to this.  I can't believe it is more difficult to staff a server farm in Pryor than it is to staff a server farm in Lenoir, NC (1+ hour from Charlotte), The Dalles, OR (1+ hour from Portland) or outside of Council Bluffs, IA and Charleston, SC.

nathanm

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October 30, 2008, 03:22:40 PM
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Originally posted by TURobY


Ding ding ding! Most of the qualified people already live in the city and can find well-paying jobs here. I don't know many people willing to drive an hour to get paid the same in Pryor as if they drove 15 minutes to a job in town.

The only way I'd consider it is if they paid someone to drive me out there. I have better things to do than waste an hour and a half of my day driving.

I wouldn't be surprised if it being that far out didn't bother the people who made the decision to build there. They probably looked at the numbers and said something like "heck, I drive over an hour to work every day" and thought it wasn't all that bad. Bay area traffic sucks a big one. I could easily see someone failing to realize that most people around here drive 15 or 20 minutes at most to get to work.
"Labor is prior to and independent of capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration" --Abraham Lincoln

dbacks fan

#18
October 30, 2008, 03:43:18 PM
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Originally posted by nathanm

QuoteOriginally posted by izmophonik

AS/400 guys..


AS/400? I havent seen one of those since I did work for Vintage Petroleum in the late 90's

izmophonik

#19
October 30, 2008, 04:22:29 PM
You have to remember we live in a city where there is supposedly no parking downtown.  If you can't throw a rock at it from your car then it's not walkable.

nathanm

#20
October 30, 2008, 04:47:32 PM
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Originally posted by dbacks fan


AS/400? I havent seen one of those since I did work for Vintage Petroleum in the late 90's

I suppose IBM quit calling them that (I think they're calling them 'i5' now), but there's still a lot of them around. They're great database machines, even for new installs, but it's hard to find good RPG programmers for all those legacy apps out there.
"Labor is prior to and independent of capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration" --Abraham Lincoln

dbacks fan

#21
October 30, 2008, 06:07:58 PM
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Originally posted by nathanm

quote:
Originally posted by dbacks fan


AS/400? I havent seen one of those since I did work for Vintage Petroleum in the late 90's

I suppose IBM quit calling them that (I think they're calling them 'i5' now), but there's still a lot of them around. They're great database machines, even for new installs, but it's hard to find good RPG programmers for all those legacy apps out there.


I should have guessed that, IBM much like AT&T/Lucent/Avaya mature their systems.
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