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Franklin Pierce said:
Obsolete 1950s Computer Code is causing Unemployment chaos amid huge lines: Appeal for retired Programmers who know obscure COBOL language to fix Outdated Computer System in states across US


States have appealed for help reprogramming their outdated computer systems that are used to process surging unemployment applications as a record 16.8 million Americans claim benefits amid the coronavirus lockdown.

A record 6.6 million new claims for unemployment benefits were filed last week, according to the latest Labor Department figures released on Thursday. It comes on top of than 10 million applications filed in the last two weeks of March.

Many local government computer programs use an obsolete code from the 1950s at a time when the social security process has been thrown into chaos with rising numbers of workers forced out of work due to coronavirus.

Officials in New Jersey, Kansas, Connecticut, Maine, Rhode Island, Mississippi and Oklahoma have all admitted struggling to proceeds growing applications.
Governors have put out pleas for retired programmers to help code the decades-old computer programming language called COBOL because many of the state's systems still run on old mainframes.

Hundreds of desperate Floridians were filmed lining up and risking exposure to coronavirus to get paper for applications.

More than half of states still rely on 40-year-old mainframe systems that run on outdated software.

Appeal for retired programmers to fix outdated computer system amid unemployment chaos | Daily Mail Online
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I had one quarter of COBOL in about 1970.
 
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Just 8% of the 90,000 Medical Workers From across the US who volunteered to Come to New York to Help fight coronavirus have been assigned a job

When Gov Andrew Cuomo issued a desperate call last month asking doctors and nurses to come to New York and help shoulder the enormous burden of treating an ever-growing number of coronavirus patients flooding the city's hospitals, medics across the country listened, and they came in droves.

Some 90,000 medical professionals so far have signed up to volunteer at hospitals overflowing with critically ill patients in order to take some of the pressure off the existing staf.

But according to multiple reports, more than 90 per cent of them were still sitting on the sidelines waiting to be called up.

Articles published this week by The Washington Post and The New York Times quoted frustrated doctors and nurses as saying that they have been waiting in vain for someone to reach out to them and give them an assignment, even though they were willing and able to help with the pandemic response.

Ninety per cent of 90,000 volunteers who want to help New York doctors are waiting for assignment | Daily Mail Online
 
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volfan_89 said:
What about Jeff Bezos and Amazon effectively paying zero federal income taxes? Surely if you’re upset about one group not paying taxes, or upset about the other as well?
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Bezos paid income tax. Amazon did not pay corporate taxes on its earnings this year. Do you know why? Because of the billions they lost in prior years laying the infrastructure for the future.
 
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This is posted on Facebook in the Knoxville area. Not me or my post, just a copy of the text.
I need a direct contact to a news station investigator in Knoxville ASAP. (or someone else that can help)

My mom (her DR told her to quarantine until test results are back) works for a Dr's office that is neglecting the safety of the employees AND Patients.

a couple of things going on:
Employees are sharing office spaces and computers including clocking in and out. They are NOT providing any masks nor any sanitizing.

Nurses not wearing protective gear with patents and nothing getting wiped down in between patients.

She is scared of getting fired and won't do anything on her own to expose them, so I'm reaching out. They are more concerned about when she can get back to work. :(

I'm out of state, so it's difficult for me to reach out.
 
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volfan_89 said:
Not really, two dudes can have all the sex they want. Ain’t nobody getting prego. Two women can have all the sex they want, ain’t nobody getting prego. A woman could have you ovaries removed, she ain’t getting prego. Dude could have his balls removed and a penile implant in place, ain’t nobody getting prego. That’s a lot of none abstinence.
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It helps if you've followed the discussion. Then you'd know what we were actually talking about.

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Weezer said:
It helps if you've followed the discussion. Then you'd know what we were actually talking about.

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It was a reach I know. I mostly post in politics to get a rise outta people. But still there are a few ways around abstinence so that no one involved gets eggs fertilized.
 
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Zues1 said:
This is posted on Facebook in the Knoxville area. Not me or my post, just a copy of the text.
I need a direct contact to a news station investigator in Knoxville ASAP. (or someone else that can help)

My mom (her DR told her to quarantine until test results are back) works for a Dr's office that is neglecting the safety of the employees AND Patients.

a couple of things going on:
Employees are sharing office spaces and computers including clocking in and out. They are NOT providing any masks nor any sanitizing.

Nurses not wearing protective gear with patents and nothing getting wiped down in between patients.

She is scared of getting fired and won't do anything on her own to expose them, so I'm reaching out. They are more concerned about when she can get back to work. :(

I'm out of state, so it's difficult for me to reach out.
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Why don’t they just call the news station?
 
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Franklin Pierce said:
Obsolete 1950s Computer Code is causing Unemployment chaos amid huge lines: Appeal for retired Programmers who know obscure COBOL language to fix Outdated Computer System in states across US


States have appealed for help reprogramming their outdated computer systems that are used to process surging unemployment applications as a record 16.8 million Americans claim benefits amid the coronavirus lockdown.

A record 6.6 million new claims for unemployment benefits were filed last week, according to the latest Labor Department figures released on Thursday. It comes on top of than 10 million applications filed in the last two weeks of March.

Many local government computer programs use an obsolete code from the 1950s at a time when the social security process has been thrown into chaos with rising numbers of workers forced out of work due to coronavirus.

Officials in New Jersey, Kansas, Connecticut, Maine, Rhode Island, Mississippi and Oklahoma have all admitted struggling to proceeds growing applications.
Governors have put out pleas for retired programmers to help code the decades-old computer programming language called COBOL because many of the state's systems still run on old mainframes.

Hundreds of desperate Floridians were filmed lining up and risking exposure to coronavirus to get paper for applications.

More than half of states still rely on 40-year-old mainframe systems that run on outdated software.

Appeal for retired programmers to fix outdated computer system amid unemployment chaos | Daily Mail Online
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COBOL lmao.

Now that takes me back.
 
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Zues1 said:
This is posted on Facebook in the Knoxville area. Not me or my post, just a copy of the text.
I need a direct contact to a news station investigator in Knoxville ASAP. (or someone else that can help)

My mom (her DR told her to quarantine until test results are back) works for a Dr's office that is neglecting the safety of the employees AND Patients.

a couple of things going on:
Employees are sharing office spaces and computers including clocking in and out. They are NOT providing any masks nor any sanitizing.

Nurses not wearing protective gear with patents and nothing getting wiped down in between patients.

She is scared of getting fired and won't do anything on her own to expose them, so I'm reaching out. They are more concerned about when she can get back to work. :(

I'm out of state, so it's difficult for me to reach out.
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There are whistleblower laws.......

Google WBIR, WATE, etc.... Somebody would jump on that like a duck on a june bug.

Just make sure your ducks are in a row before you go off...... There are consequences to going off "half-cocked".....
 
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Workers wearing Hazmat suits bury caskets in huge trenches on New York's Hart Island amid speculation it has become a resting place for coronavirus victims as the number of burials there more than quadruples and the city's death roll rises to 4,260

About a dozen workers were seen digging the graves on Thursday as at least one refrigerated truck was brought onto New York City's Hart Island
Prisoners from Rikers Island are usually brought in to dig graves on Hart Island but the Department of Corrections has now stopped those in custody from carrying out the work due to the coronavirus outbreak
The refrigerated truck that was brought onto the island is similar to those currently parked outside hospitals across Manhattan as part of makeshift morgues set up to deal with the pandemic
Authorities have not officially confirmed if coronavirus patients are currently being buried on Hart Island despite morgues overflowing across the city and the death toll continuing to rise
Currently, 4,260 people have died from coronavirus in the city and more than 80,000 have been infected
 
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