IanS00 | 6 years ago | on: New Jersey needs COBOL programmers for their unemployment claims system
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IanS00 | 6 years ago | on: New Jersey needs COBOL programmers for their unemployment claims system
There's a difference between a generic "bad boss" and an incompetent one. An incompetent one will kill the project.
If NJ have failed to maintain legacy systems that good COBOL development needs, almost by definition they have incompetent management (and a Governor who can't even pronounce COBOL). They likely don't have the dev or test boxes that they should have. They will either put up barriers to the other systems the developer needs to understand, or will throw open the doors so that my fixes get broken by everyone else's fixes.
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To get serious, they need to move HR aside. Many of the best techs from the '70s and 80s dropped out of college. What was called for back then was real-world experience, not slips of paper.
I seem to spend most of my working life trying not to embarrass people with 4-year degrees who can't even spell things like "COBOL".