6.6 million jobless claims.

[Jolly]

Sometimes, if it works, leave it alone. We were running the old roll and scroll Sunquest as late as 2014 and it did everything we needed.

[Mik]

IT systems are tools. Nothing more. If the tool does what you need done and is on a maintainable platform it's good.

I have seen a lot of businesses that worked for technology rather than technology working for them. You see a LOT of that in healthcare. That's the wrong way to go.

[Improviso]

@mark said in 6.6 million jobless claims.:

@Improviso said in 6.6 million jobless claims.> Wrote cobol on a IBM 370 for years. Then an IBM 8100 system. Some of that code ran for over 15 years before they retired the system.

I have a system that is still running at a dental lab that I wrote in 1985. He finally stopped upgrading the underlying runtime system about 5 years ago. He said he was retiring. He is still working and I did some enhancements for him to start a new process just last December.

Nice... good code just runs and runs.

[George K]

[89th]

This is not meant to be a political statement at all, but I wonder how much credit Trump will claim in the coming months when folks "get off unemployment".

It'll be something like "No president has ever helped so many people find employment again in the history of this country, some say in the history of the world."

[Copper]

It sounds like you are tired of winning.

[George K]

3.2 million more

Unemployment rolls continued to swell in the U.S. last week, though jobless claims hit their lowest level since the economy went into lockdown made to battle the coronavirus pandemic.

First-time filings for unemployment insurance hit 3.17 million last week, bringing the total to 33.5 million over the past seven weeks, the Labor Department reported Thursday. The total was slightly higher than the 3.05 million expected by economists surveyed by Dow Jones and below the previous week’s 3.846 million, which was revised up by 7,000.

The latest jobless claims numbers come a day before the Labor Department releases its nonfarm payrolls report for April. Economists surveyed by Dow Jones expect a plunge of 21.5 million, easily the worst month in U.S. history, with the unemployment rate surging to 16%.

[Copper]

It's the economy

[89th]

I wonder if we'll hit 50 million on unemployment.

[jon-nyc]

The effective reproductive rate of unemployment claims is less than one.

[Horace]

It's herd immunity. Once you've lost your job you can't lose it again.

[jon-nyc]

That has yet to be proven, I read somewhere that some employees in South Korea got furloughed twice.

[Copper]

This is making the rounds on pilot sites

I wonder if it is real, maybe it is

https://ukaviation.news/qatar-airways-you-are-no-longer-required-heres-a-130000-bill/

@ukaviation said: >

Qatar Airways: You are no longer required, here’s a £130,000 bill

[mark]

That cannot be real. If it is, then, fuck them!

[MainerMikeBrown]

Reading about current jobless claims makes me think about the bad economy overall.

And I hate to read about people losing their livelihood.

[George K]

2.1 million this week:

And here's an interesting comment:

[89th]

And in Q3 when tens of millions of people are "hired", Trump will claim it as the best economy EVAH

[Loki]

The white collar job layoffs are coming and furloughs are turning into layoffs.

[George K]

https://www.bea.gov/sites/default/files/2020-05/gdp1q20_2nd.pdf

Real gross domestic product (GDP) decreased at an annual rate of 5.0 percent in the first quarter of 2020 (table 1), according to the "second" estimate released by the Bureau of Economic Analysis. In the fourth quarter, real GDP increased 2.1 percent.

The GDP estimate released today is based on more complete source data than were available for the "advance" estimate issued last month. In the advance estimate, the decrease in real GDP was 4.8 percent. With the second estimate, a downward revision to private inventory investment was partly offset by upward revisions to personal consumption expenditures (PCE) and nonresidential fixed investment (see "Updates to GDP" on page 2).

[Copper]

@89th said in 6.6 million jobless claims.:

And in Q3 when tens of millions of people are "hired", Trump will claim it as the best economy EVAH

If it recovers from this hit, it will be the best ever.

And another win.