• toofpic@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    We’re maintaining and developing OpenVMS OS, and both we and our customers need Cobol, Fortran, and other half-dead languages coders.
    Many large companies maintain their old systems and use them for production or data processing purposes. Sometimes it’s too expensive to migrate off, but im many cases “it just works”

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      8 months ago

      I’ve seen those postings and some executive is living in dreamland thinking they can hire someone to do that for $25/hr.

      • AFaithfulNihilist@lemmy.world
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        8 months ago

        My bosses tried to ask me if I knew anyone the could hire for a full time position at a hospital. I ask for more details and eventually they relent because they aren’t having any luck on indeed/craigslist/temp recruiter.

        It’s a 24 hour on call position for ‘up to’ $55,000 to be the sole IT staff for a 100 bed hospital in upstate NY.

        I literally laughed at them, but they seem to insist they are gonna find someone to take the job.

        I actually think the job isn’t even legal as described.