Seams like Pa unemployment computer is sending out bad data. Spoke to friend who is unemployed in Pa. Computer purgeing active accounts. No money for the people who need it most. How nice! I wonder if this has anything to do with all PA state programers off for holidays. I wonder if these things are going to pick up now. Just curious about holiday and reset.

-- real interesting (real@nice.com), January 17, 2000

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I wonder how they found out on a government holiday that the computers weren't working properly? Probably had all the black people working, when the white people are off for the federal holiday for Dr. King. Just like Da Man, tryin' to hold the brother down! And we all know who they're trying to keep that unemployment money from, don't we? That's right! The brother man!

-- Rev. Alice Sharpton (on@holiday.gov), January 17, 2000.

There's an earlier thread on this theme. "Gaging y2k". The thread contains an excellent analysis of problems that may come in in batch matching. As I pointed out in my response to some of the postings there, the federal and state programs-such as unemployment compensation-are inextricably linked up, down and peer to peer (state to state). And no flames about "welfare", please. The skilled craftsmen and energy executives who have been forced to turn to TAA are not congruent with that popular pre/mis-conception. and a person MUST HAVE BEEN EMPLOYED to draw UI: and that includes our vets who are coming back from tours of duty in the cess-pits of the world with honorable discharge papers. Bet your boots this one is either directly Y2K or indirectly: perhaps the result of a new system or patch that was thrown on to avoid problems.

-- another government hack (keepwatching@yahoo.com), January 17, 2000.

Government Hack- Are you working today?

-- Alice (go_ask@lice.gov), January 17, 2000.

Give it a rest, Alice. The real problems are in getting relief to those who need it IF and when system failure increments. I don't think stressed out parents and kids really have an "ethnic" identity, do you. Humans all hurt the same, unless there's an agenda. And believe me, the areas in which I've spent my professional life are full of species who devour their own kind. And yes, what I'm doing today is definitely work related: and I don't get point one from the "man" for it.

-- another government hack (keepwatching@yahoo.com), January 17, 2000.

That's what I thought. Today is a federal holiday. No federal employee is at work today. No federal employee is operating any computer, functioning or otherwise. Tomorrow we will know whether or not the computers spit out bad data today, but today, no one is there, kapeche?

How dumb do you think we are?

-- Ms. Sharpton (not@work_today.gov), January 17, 2000.

errr ms sharpton, you just might want to check the flavor of boot you are wearing, since UI is a STATE thing, and only 39 STATES honor the date.

MIGHT want to check to see if PA is one of the 39 or the 11.

Chuck

-- Chuck, a night driver (rienzoo@en.com), January 17, 2000.

Y'know, many fed employees hold 'support' positions. Y'know, in support of other activities?

I could name you 10 fed employees who are working today. Just because it's a federal holiday doesn't mean no one has to make sure the phones are working, or that the heat is still on, or that someone is around to accept classified messages, etc.

Lots of Fed activities are 24-7, and sometimes that does include holidays, believe it or not.

-- Arewyn (artemis31@msn.com), January 17, 2000.

Not Y2K: this is an MLK problem.

Yuk-yuk. (laughter)

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-- Squirrel Hunter (nuts@upina.tree), January 17, 2000.

Having been recently "permanently laid off" in PA state, I have an interest in this story. Got "permanently laid off" the Monday after Xmas (Don'tcha just love the timing?).

Since the unemployment office is closed today, I find the story that their computer malfunctioning today to be a bit fishy. I hope it's wrong, as I could use the money.

We'll see what happens tomorrow, I guess.

-- Bill (billclo@msgbox.com), January 17, 2000.

Mmmm mmm. That boot tastes mighty good now. Heh, heh. Martin Luther King Day declared Federal Holiday in 1994

-- Rev. Alice (sharpton@tasty.boot), January 17, 2000.