I am stunned by this story in the Sacramento Bee.If Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger wants to issue minimum-wage checks to 200,000 state workers in less than a month, he may want to rehire any semi-retired computer programmers he terminated last week.California taxpayers are now being held hostage by CA state employees. Court orders don't matter. Edicts from the governor don't matter. Just fabricate a tale and blame it all on COBOL. Funny how CA state employees can give themselves big pay raises in a hurry using this very same payroll system!
The massive pay cut would exhaust the state's antiquated payroll system, which is built on a Vietnam-era computer language so outdated that many college students don't even bother to learn it anymore.
Democratic state Controller John Chiang said Monday it would take at least six months to reconfigure the state's payroll system to issue blanket checks at the federal minimum wage of $6.55 per hour, though Schwarzenegger insists such a change should occur this month.
The beautiful state of California is SO screwed.
Update: The Instaglenn posted about this.
4 comments:
God I remember learning COBOL in collej - back in 1987.
And I remember skipping COBOL in college about that same time, thank gawd, else I might have ended up pushing payroll checks on some mainframe for the rest of my life!
(And what did I take instead? IBM 360 Assembler Language. Now there's a resume-builder, eh?)
This story is over a month old. I guess they found a way to work around this COBOL problem.
The hell with California. America is screwed.
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