[LINK] Schwarzenegger pay plans thwarted by COBOL

[Ivan Trundle]

On 07/08/2008, at 5:21 PM, Roger Clarke wrote:

> At 16:40 +1000 7/8/08, David Boxall wrote:
>> <http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2223408/schwarzenegger-pay-plans-cobol 
>> >
>>> State Controller John Chiang told the Senate Committee on  
>>> Governmental
>>> Organization that this was impossible as the payroll system was
>>> written 30 years ago in COBOL and there weren't enough programmers  
>>> to
>>> do the job.
>
> For the right level of pay, I'd be *delighted* to drop all this
> strategy, policy and advocacy stuff I do, and dust off my COBOL
> skills!!

That'll be 'minimum wage level', Roger...