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posted by chromas on Tuesday April 07 2020, @12:00AM   Printer-friendly
from the big-cobalt dept.

Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:

The governor of New Jersey has asked COBOL-capable coders to volunteer their skills as the State’s mainframe computers have struggled to cope with a surge of requests for benefits to help citizens through the coronavirus crisis.

COBOL - common business-oriented language - was first introduced in the early 1960s and achieved the then-important trick of offering programmers a language that could work across multiple manufacturers' proprietary computers.

[...] In his daily press briefing on April 4th, governor Phil Murphy said: “In our list of volunteers not only do we need health care workers but given the legacy systems we should add a page for cobalt [sic] computer skills, because that's what we're dealing with in these legacies.”

[...] It appears that New Jersey needs COBOL coders because its benefits system has choked on a surge of requests for unemployment payments.

[...] [C]ommissioner of the New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Robert Asaro-Angelo explained that his agency has experienced a 1600 percent increase in its usual volume of requests for assistance.

[...] At Governor Murphy’s April 2nd briefing he said: “This morning the Department of Labor reported that over the past week more than 206,000 new claims for unemployment were filed, meaning that in just the past two weeks alone more than 362,000 residents have filed for unemployment. “

Does anybody know where he could find someone looking for work?


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  • (Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Tuesday April 07 2020, @12:14AM (15 children)

    by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Tuesday April 07 2020, @12:14AM (#979817) Homepage

    Not only that, but it's working on-site in New Jersey, which is by far one of the most environmentally and culturally disgusting states in America.

  • (Score: 3, Funny) by Runaway1956 on Tuesday April 07 2020, @12:43AM (5 children)

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday April 07 2020, @12:43AM (#979825) Journal

    Yeah, the license plates are way behind the times. NJ was the Garden State, but has become the Garbage State. There are still a few pretty spots in the state, but it's all way overpopulated. Kinda like Cal, come to think of it.

    • (Score: 2) by barbara hudson on Tuesday April 07 2020, @01:55AM (3 children)

      by barbara hudson (6443) <barbara.Jane.hudson@icloud.com> on Tuesday April 07 2020, @01:55AM (#979841) Journal

      Like many, I did a contract job in New Jersey. And like many, I'll say "fool me once, shame on me ..." What a dump.

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      • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 07 2020, @03:14AM (2 children)

        by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 07 2020, @03:14AM (#979864)

        It isn't as big a dump since you left.

        • (Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 07 2020, @04:50AM (1 child)

          by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 07 2020, @04:50AM (#979891)

          At least she found way to leave the world a better place.

          • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 07 2020, @07:39PM

            by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 07 2020, @07:39PM (#980050)

            it's a dude, man!

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 07 2020, @03:09AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 07 2020, @03:09AM (#979863)

      Change the plates to "Birthplace of Unix".

  • (Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 07 2020, @01:00AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 07 2020, @01:00AM (#979832)

    Not as disgusting as EF.

    • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 07 2020, @01:19AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 07 2020, @01:19AM (#979836)

      EF's just ahead of the curve.

  • (Score: 4, Informative) by Grishnakh on Tuesday April 07 2020, @02:47AM (5 children)

    by Grishnakh (2831) on Tuesday April 07 2020, @02:47AM (#979854)

    -1 Utterly ignorant.

    Obviously, you've never been to NJ, or if you have, you were only there to go in or out of the Newark airport. Yes, if that's the only part of NJ you've seen, it's understandable why you'd think this way, but it's ridiculous. NJ isn't that small a state.

    Speaking from personal experience (I lived there for 2 years), there's a reason it's called the "garden state". It's really beautiful. The western part, in particular, is very pretty. Of course, this is pretty far from NYC and all the industrialized areas. Also, many of the townships are very quaint and pretty. And there's a bunch of really great parks there too.

    Of course, there's some pretty bad parts of the state too. Newark is pretty ugly, and pretty dangerous too. Elizabeth isn't very pretty either. In fact, a lot of the stuff in that sector of the state isn't very pretty: it's been industrialized for well over a century, it's close to NYC, and a lot of stuff is just plain old, and a lot of it is looking pretty decrepit. But again, that's only one smallish part of the state. Just stay away from those burnt-out industrial areas near Newark, and check out the other parts. Except Camden; that place has a bad reputation too.

    Anyway, yes, certain cities with high crime rates are probably places to avoid. But there's a lot more to the state than those places.

    • (Score: 2) by fliptop on Tuesday April 07 2020, @04:23AM (2 children)

      by fliptop (1666) on Tuesday April 07 2020, @04:23AM (#979888) Journal

      there's a reason it's called the "garden state". It's really beautiful

      Maybe so, but it's been long known in industry that NJ has more hazardous waste sites [wikipedia.org] in need of Superfund cleanup than any other state. Look at the map, the whole damn state is red.

      What's on top may look pretty, but what's underneath is gross.

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      • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 07 2020, @01:03PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 07 2020, @01:03PM (#979949)

        Sounds like my ex.

      • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Grishnakh on Tuesday April 07 2020, @01:28PM

        by Grishnakh (2831) on Tuesday April 07 2020, @01:28PM (#979952)

        Again, you're conflating totally different parts of the state. Are you going to trash California because of problems in the Bay Area? What exactly do the Joshua Tree or Death Valley national parks have to do with the idiotic NIMBYism in SanFran? Nothing. Nor do the local politics of Eureka or Redding have anything to do with that city. More similar to your point, another really hazardous place is the Hanford Site in Benton county, Washington. Are you going to try to tell me that everything around the Puget Sound is somehow bad because of this? Sure, there's a lot of superfund sites in NJ, just like much of the northeast. You probably don't want to live next door to a superfund site, but living 100 miles away isn't unsafe; polluted sites don't somehow contaminate everything that distant. There's superfund sites in every state.

    • (Score: 2) by Hartree on Tuesday April 07 2020, @05:00AM (1 child)

      by Hartree (195) on Tuesday April 07 2020, @05:00AM (#979893)

      I saw a lot of the outdoors in New Jersey.

      But, it was Fort Dix and for basic training.

      My opinion may be biased due to that.

      • (Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Tuesday April 07 2020, @01:20PM

        by Grishnakh (2831) on Tuesday April 07 2020, @01:20PM (#979951)

        Well, that's much farther south than the stuff in the northwest part of the state where I spent some time. Also, generally speaking, areas in and around military bases are generally always awful, everyone in the country.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 07 2020, @03:40AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 07 2020, @03:40AM (#979869)

    Coming from you, that is a compliment.