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<body><div>HA!</div><div><br></div><div>A friend just retired from the Federal Reserve. He's warned me that the instant the push to "privatize" the Fed starts, pull all your cash from the banking system and buy a large, heavy safe.</div><div><br></div><div>On Thu, 2015-10-22 at 17:27 -0400, Jay Lozier wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite">
Looks like SunTrust will on the block soon when the back end COBOL
system crashes and no one in India knows enough COBOL to fix it.<br>
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At least I am with another bank.<br>
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Jay<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 10/22/2015 04:54 PM, Jim Kinney
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<div>I'm sure by now, most people have heard that Suntrust (time
to find a new bank) is laying off 100 developers, having them
train their overseas replacements and requiring that they be
available, FOR FREE, over the next 2 years if required.</div>
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<div>The Register has a good writeup:</div>
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<div><a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/10/22/the_zombie_programmer_awakens/">http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/10/22/the_zombie_programmer_awakens/</a></div>
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