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Employment Department Online/Phone System Goes Down

BY GEOFF NORCROSS

Portland, OR  October 6, 2009 11:18 a.m.

The Oregon Employment Department is scrambling to get its phone and computer systems back to a hundred percent this morning. 

This past Sunday, thousands of out-of-work Oregonians were frustrated when they tried to file their unemployment claims, because of a big system-wide failure. 

For an update, we talked with Deparment Spokesman Craig Spivey. 

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October 6, 2009
3:22 p.m.
I was perplexed to hear the technical difficulties experienced by the Unemployment Department described as a SNAFU by the OPB Reporter. I had no idea that the situation at Unemployment was normally “F‘d” up. I am guessing that the reporter meant to say that there was a glitch. After all, they had the computer system up and running in a short period of time, so it must not have been FUBAR.

— Posted by Bryan


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