ADP COBOL associates are the key......

Doing a Google search (ADP layoffs)...I just found this blog!

I took the ER very early when offered and so did most of us in mainframe programming.

We are mostly over 55 with many years with ADP (I started in 1992)

The BAD news----

ADP Upper management has no idea what they are doing letting go of COBOL programmers.

How can any company replace experienced people who know COBOL, ASSEMBLER, REXX, SAS, DB2, CICS, TSO, etc,etc.? No company can....none. We are worth our weight in gold. As I read another mainframes response, he/she is 100% correct. ADP core business is payroll..(Edit/Net/Wrap) sound familiar? If not, then you have no idea what drives ADP software empire....millions of lines of code.

ADP will never be able to build, maintain, modify its core software business because we are going

and new hires do not have the knowledge or experience to step in. NONE!

The GOOD news---

ADP will reap what it has sown......believe me, just give it time.

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It's going to be an embarrassing time for the remaining employees to explain not only to clients but other internal employees that something can't be done because nobody left knows how to do it. This isn't just programming but many other tasks. I do agree though that the programmers leaving in droves is going to hurt more than any other group of people leaving.

Yeah, these decisions seem really premature, I've heard they are moving away from mainframe but that would have to take place over time not in a few months.

Yes, you have outlined a big problem. A fatal problem for ADP. Obviously, the top leadership team at ADP has no clue what it is doing! They are paid top dollar to know the ins and outs of their company so that they can make proper decisions that would benefit the company. But they did not know this! Absolutely incredible!

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