California cutting all employees pay to minimum wage!
Good news, everyone!
California government consulting firms now have job openings for legacy systems archaeologists, programmer/archaeologists who understand how to modify and debug COBOL software (with maybe ADABAS) running in a System/360 (late 60s vintage) emulation running in MVS running in a systems complex under ZCF/ICF. (As I understand it...
I've done way too much legacy support, but that was more along the likes of getting Mac Classic to play nice with Mac OSX, where the folks who wrote the original were still alive!)
Alas, the people who knew what that meant have retired, and none of the High Priced Consultants have been able to figure it out.
Now, the COBOL payroll software at the heart of the beast doesn't use anything that a database programmer would recognize. There's no real transactional processing here. It predates VSAM. (nervous yet?) Specifically, the beast doesn't have the facility to track what someone should be paid, pay them a different amount, and track the accumulated difference in pay, and difference in charges to department payrolls, and all the other fiddly bits.
They also don't have the staff to quickly write all this new code to implement the needed facilities, figure out how to shoehorn it into a virtual Sys/360 machine, test, and debug it. Certainly not on minimum wage!