I was considered “brave” and “crazy” for offering to work that shift. People were losing their minds. It was the first time I realized how gullible the general public was. I was the calm in the storm. I reminded them that air was not controlled by a computer and we would survive. It would be like “camping nursing.” Midnight -NOTHING- and people felt stupid. I’m ready for that feeling again. It was priceless.
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There were some actual implications for banking and the old systems they have but yes it was completely overblown. The banks did have old Cobol programmers come in to fix the date issue. I know because my aunt was one of them.
Those old COBOL programmers made a TON of cash.