Re: Hence you must pay the old person 3x more because of all of their non-Java experience. Not necessarily. I suspect what happened is IBM used to pay that way

Re: Hence you must pay the old person 3x more because of all of their non-Java experience. Not necessarily. I suspect what happened is IBM used to pay that way, but the industry practice has changed (for good or bad), but they fired based on current industry practice instead of their original practice, making it come out lopsided by age.