Comments on: the terminator http://www.myconfinedspace.com/2008/12/01/the-terminator/ My Confined Space is an image blog with user submitted pictures of anything and everything, funny, serious or dark. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 09:31:57 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Phyreblade http://www.myconfinedspace.com/2008/12/01/the-terminator/comment-page-1/#comment-162915 Phyreblade Tue, 02 Dec 2008 00:20:59 +0000 http://www.myconfinedspace.com/2008/12/01/the-terminator/#comment-162915 OK. If you run any department on software that has to be recoded in order to accommodate something as mundane as firing a bunch of employees (be it 1 or 100,000), then you deserve everything you get. OK. If you run any department on software that has to be recoded in order to accommodate something as mundane as firing a bunch of employees (be it 1 or 100,000), then you deserve everything you get.

]]> By: LukeV1-5 http://www.myconfinedspace.com/2008/12/01/the-terminator/comment-page-1/#comment-162631 LukeV1-5 Mon, 01 Dec 2008 17:14:40 +0000 http://www.myconfinedspace.com/2008/12/01/the-terminator/#comment-162631 I don't live in California. I.e., I don't care. He is a god damn time-traveling robot. I don’t live in California.

I.e., I don’t care.

He is a god damn time-traveling robot.

]]> By: macol http://www.myconfinedspace.com/2008/12/01/the-terminator/comment-page-1/#comment-162546 macol Mon, 01 Dec 2008 15:20:53 +0000 http://www.myconfinedspace.com/2008/12/01/the-terminator/#comment-162546 Facing a state budget crisis in July, California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger fired about 10,000 temporary and part-time workers and ordered the 200,000 permanent employees to be paid only the minimum wage of $6.55 an hour until the legislature passed a crisis-solving budget. However, a week later the State Controller John Chiang pointed out that state payroll records could not be changed to accommodate the cut because they were written in the antiquated COBOL computer language, and virtually the only state employees who knew the code were some of the part-timers Schwarzenegger had just fired. [Sacramento Bee, 8-5-08] Facing a state budget crisis in July, California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger fired about 10,000 temporary and part-time workers and ordered the 200,000 permanent employees to be paid only the minimum wage of $6.55 an hour until the legislature passed a crisis-solving budget. However, a week later the State Controller John Chiang pointed out that state payroll records could not be changed to accommodate the cut because they were written in the antiquated COBOL computer language, and virtually the only state employees who knew the code were some of the part-timers Schwarzenegger had just fired. [Sacramento Bee, 8-5-08]

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