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>Which of course keeps a younger person from working that crappy job
I work in tech, and there are still 4 people over 60 just chilling in high paying roles that should be going to their younger counterparts. They won't move, and they've been with the company so long, they're basically tenured. It's infuriating to watch.
They're not technically competent. They've just found themselves in these roles and they do the bare minimum to convince management they're necessary. Spreadsheets tracking tasks, long-term upgrade plans that never actually happen.
One old guy (~67) has been 'migrating mysql 5 to mysql 8' for 3 years. It's a project I could have done in an afternoon. But he's just been drawing it out because nobody calls him on it.
For context, that means just dumping the schema and then running an import on an upgraded server. It's a couple of hours of actual work with a few days of planning to ensure things go right. He's taking YEARS.
And the sad part is that when these boomers move out of the way, I'm going to be the old guy who's unable to change jobs because the industry has passed me by. So by default I will have to do what he's doing, which is taking up a spot that a younger man should be happily being promoted to.
So those younger men will continue to delay parenthood because they're not secure enough in their careers, and the cycle will repeat. And hilariously the extra money I'll be making will probably just get taxed for UBI and elder-care for these same boomers who fucked everything up.
Rest easy, they WILL fuck up our economy so bad that whatever dreams of retirement you or I had will be wiped out.
I'm basically trying to figure out what I can do to preserve some of my status for the after-time, when all the systems we've paid into stop paying back. I think we're all in the same sinking boat, and the money in our wallets can't save any of us.