CYMA

This was one of the all time worst jobs I had.

I think Lawrence got me the job after we all got fired from Motorola during layoffs. Well I got fired for political reasons, cuz I had the balls to tell the truth and say I could write the software in a week instead of six months. I also met Gene Asad a cool Arab guy here.

The first day at work I was told to hide in my cube because the boss was on a rampage. And it didn't get any better. They were going to fire me because they said I lied on my resume. Well the dumb asses did't call the Phoenix Office of Everex, the idiots called the San Jose California office of Everex who said they didn't know me. Duh!!! I didn't work at the San Jose Everex office you idiots, I worked at the Phoenix office.

I quit after about a week when Intel offered me a job. The Intel job was a little better but not much.

If you have heard of CYMA they make software for PC's. Well this is the same outfit. But they don't write software for PC's! They write software for IBM computers that run on Saudia Arabian military computers. The owner of CYMA knows the King or some Prince in the Suadi government and they got a sweatheart deal to write the software. I think it is some type of configuration managment software. That's probably how Lawrence got the job because he did that stuff at Motorola.

I was going to learn how to write CICS code in this job. But I quit because the place was run by a bunch of idiots. I probably should have stayed here because I got fired after I went to Intel by another set of idiots. But that is a whole other story which you can read about on that web page. They fired me because they were idiots and though I might expose them.

I have written tons of software on IBM mainframes including lots of assembly language code, COBOL, FORTRAN, REXX but I have not written CICS code (execpt in a class I took on Micro Focus) and I was looking forward for this job to give me some CICS skills. If you want to talk like an IBM mainframe CICS programmer you pronounce "CICS" as "kicks", like you get your kicks on route 66.

This job also required that you go to Saudia Arabia and help with the software there. That would have been fun. So of course the subject of religion came up. I was told that even though I am an atheist I would have to say I was a Christian to get into the country. And that if I was Jewish I would have had to lie and say I am a Christian to get into the country.