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  • August 6, 2008 at 3:42 PM #13538
    Coronita
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    This is a followup to a thread recently posted about the future of IT opportunties in the government/public sector especially Kalifornia.

    I ran into this article (it’s got to be a joke). Anyway, i thought it would be humorous to post.

    Got Cobol?

    http://valleywag.com/5033701/schwarzenegger-thwarted-by-state-payroll-still-run-on-cobol

    Last week — it’s amazing how many tech workers missed it — California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger “terminated” (sigh) 10,000 state employees and cut another 200,000 to the state minimum wage of $6.55 an hour. Democratic state controller John Chiang (Schwarzenegger is a Republican, despite his marriage into the Kennedy family) told the Sacramento Bee that it would take at least six months to reconfigure the state’s payroll system to issue blanket checks at minimum wage. The state had hired retired Cobol experts to work part-time on the system. Schwarzenegger fired them last week. Entrepreneurs, start your engines — I smell opportunity! (Cobol code from SimoTime Enterprises)

    LOL, talk about bringing folks out of retirement…..

    August 6, 2008 at 4:24 PM #253597
    Eugene
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    http://developers.slashdot.org/developers/08/08/05/1816206.shtml

    [quote]The article quotes a consultant on how hard it is to find COBOL programmers; he says you usually have to draw them out of retirement. Problem is, if there were any such folks on the employment rolls in California, Gov. Schwarzenegger fired them all last week, too.[/quote]

    LOL.

    August 6, 2008 at 4:24 PM #253882
    Eugene
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    http://developers.slashdot.org/developers/08/08/05/1816206.shtml

    [quote]The article quotes a consultant on how hard it is to find COBOL programmers; he says you usually have to draw them out of retirement. Problem is, if there were any such folks on the employment rolls in California, Gov. Schwarzenegger fired them all last week, too.[/quote]

    LOL.

    August 6, 2008 at 4:24 PM #253831
    Eugene
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    http://developers.slashdot.org/developers/08/08/05/1816206.shtml

    [quote]The article quotes a consultant on how hard it is to find COBOL programmers; he says you usually have to draw them out of retirement. Problem is, if there were any such folks on the employment rolls in California, Gov. Schwarzenegger fired them all last week, too.[/quote]

    LOL.

    August 6, 2008 at 4:24 PM #253764
    Eugene
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    http://developers.slashdot.org/developers/08/08/05/1816206.shtml

    [quote]The article quotes a consultant on how hard it is to find COBOL programmers; he says you usually have to draw them out of retirement. Problem is, if there were any such folks on the employment rolls in California, Gov. Schwarzenegger fired them all last week, too.[/quote]

    LOL.

    August 6, 2008 at 4:24 PM #253772
    Eugene
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    http://developers.slashdot.org/developers/08/08/05/1816206.shtml

    [quote]The article quotes a consultant on how hard it is to find COBOL programmers; he says you usually have to draw them out of retirement. Problem is, if there were any such folks on the employment rolls in California, Gov. Schwarzenegger fired them all last week, too.[/quote]

    LOL.

    August 6, 2008 at 4:29 PM #253774
    ucodegen
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    [quote]Democratic state controller John Chiang (Schwarzenegger is a Republican, despite his marriage into the Kennedy family) told the Sacramento Bee that it would take at least six months to reconfigure the state’s payroll system to issue blanket checks at minimum wage. The state had hired retired Cobol experts to work part-time on the system. Schwarzenegger fired them last week.[/quote]

    Typical. I see the same out of MBAs.. ignoring fundamental operating requirements.. no need to service or maintain the existing machines, even though payroll depends upon it. Lets go into blind cost cutting mode, and see how much that costs us!!

    August 6, 2008 at 4:29 PM #253783
    ucodegen
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    [quote]Democratic state controller John Chiang (Schwarzenegger is a Republican, despite his marriage into the Kennedy family) told the Sacramento Bee that it would take at least six months to reconfigure the state’s payroll system to issue blanket checks at minimum wage. The state had hired retired Cobol experts to work part-time on the system. Schwarzenegger fired them last week.[/quote]

    Typical. I see the same out of MBAs.. ignoring fundamental operating requirements.. no need to service or maintain the existing machines, even though payroll depends upon it. Lets go into blind cost cutting mode, and see how much that costs us!!

    August 6, 2008 at 4:29 PM #253840
    ucodegen
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    [quote]Democratic state controller John Chiang (Schwarzenegger is a Republican, despite his marriage into the Kennedy family) told the Sacramento Bee that it would take at least six months to reconfigure the state’s payroll system to issue blanket checks at minimum wage. The state had hired retired Cobol experts to work part-time on the system. Schwarzenegger fired them last week.[/quote]

    Typical. I see the same out of MBAs.. ignoring fundamental operating requirements.. no need to service or maintain the existing machines, even though payroll depends upon it. Lets go into blind cost cutting mode, and see how much that costs us!!

    August 6, 2008 at 4:29 PM #253607
    ucodegen
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    [quote]Democratic state controller John Chiang (Schwarzenegger is a Republican, despite his marriage into the Kennedy family) told the Sacramento Bee that it would take at least six months to reconfigure the state’s payroll system to issue blanket checks at minimum wage. The state had hired retired Cobol experts to work part-time on the system. Schwarzenegger fired them last week.[/quote]

    Typical. I see the same out of MBAs.. ignoring fundamental operating requirements.. no need to service or maintain the existing machines, even though payroll depends upon it. Lets go into blind cost cutting mode, and see how much that costs us!!

    August 6, 2008 at 4:29 PM #253892
    ucodegen
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    [quote]Democratic state controller John Chiang (Schwarzenegger is a Republican, despite his marriage into the Kennedy family) told the Sacramento Bee that it would take at least six months to reconfigure the state’s payroll system to issue blanket checks at minimum wage. The state had hired retired Cobol experts to work part-time on the system. Schwarzenegger fired them last week.[/quote]

    Typical. I see the same out of MBAs.. ignoring fundamental operating requirements.. no need to service or maintain the existing machines, even though payroll depends upon it. Lets go into blind cost cutting mode, and see how much that costs us!!

    August 6, 2008 at 9:14 PM #253795
    paramount
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    I don’t recall who said the following but I agree: The IT industry today is similar to the manufacturing industry 50 years ago – and will have the same fate.

    August 6, 2008 at 9:14 PM #253964
    paramount
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    I don’t recall who said the following but I agree: The IT industry today is similar to the manufacturing industry 50 years ago – and will have the same fate.

    August 6, 2008 at 9:14 PM #253973
    paramount
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    I don’t recall who said the following but I agree: The IT industry today is similar to the manufacturing industry 50 years ago – and will have the same fate.

    August 6, 2008 at 9:14 PM #254030
    paramount
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    I don’t recall who said the following but I agree: The IT industry today is similar to the manufacturing industry 50 years ago – and will have the same fate.

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