[LINK] Schwarzenegger pay plans thwarted by COBOL

[Peter Bowditch]

Roger said:

> At 16:40 +1000 7/8/08, David Boxall wrote:
> ><http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2223408/schwarzenegger-pay-plans-cobo
> l>
> >>  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!!

I've got a passport and I'm sure I could get my COBOL skills up to scratch 
in no time at all. Book two sats on the plane, Roger. Sacramento has to be 
warmer than where either of us are today.

-- 
Peter Bowditch
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