Virginia, using 35-year-old computer system to process unemployment claims, is 5 months behind

[mahatmakanejeeves]

Graham Moomaw Retweeted

@nedoliver
reported in late October that adjudication staff at the Virginia Employment Commission were working on backlogged cases from June.
@ABC7News
reports today they're now at claims from the first of July:

Link to tweet

[underpants]

1. Throwing money at anything related to the unemployed

has never been a big priority here or a lot of places I’m sure.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

4. When I had dealings with the VEC, I had to go out of my way to get the office.

You couldn't get there easily on public transit. They didn't want anyone showing up who was poor or out of work.

[Arne]

2. Windows 3.1 or DOS?

[mahatmakanejeeves]

3. I, too, suspect that "35 years old" is exaggerating things.

I'll have to update my resume to point out that I can work with a command line interface.

[Arne]

5. Not so sure, we had a similar story with the employment computers

here in Florida.
The glitches and back log was reported like this.

[mwooldri]

6. CP/M I bet... NT