My example of how crazy things are nowadays. Long ago, I designed and developed a medical computer for a well-known manufacturer. If you walked into any eye do

My example of how crazy things are nowadays. Long ago, I designed and developed a medical computer for a well-known manufacturer. If you walked into any eye doctor or surgeon today and mentioned its name, they would know what it is. I started my own company but over the past five years, I would consistently see three former co-workers from that same company. I told them I was thinking of selling out and--jokingly--said I would re-apply for my old job. The response was always positive. "You should!", they'd say, "Put me down as a reference!". Last October, I sold out. Last January, I ran into one of those co-workers. He's now a project manager. The other two co-workers were actually my bosses, one of whom is now a "Fellow". "There's an opening," he said, "Come apply at put me down as a reference." So I did. Never heard anything back. I called my friend who talked to the "Fellow". That guy gave me the email of the headhunter who was now in charge of all hiring and told me to mention all three of their names. The headhunter replied and told me the job was, essentially, working on the same product I designed and would I be interested in working on a new version of that. So I sent my resume which shows that I've been working on almost the exact same thing and that I had worked for that company for seven years on that exact same product and have three high level managers and former bosses who all encouraged me to apply for that job. Never heard from him. My former boss, who was the Director of Engineering and is now a "Fellow" is actually now retired and only works there part-time. He said he has no say into how they do things now and all hiring is done through the headhunter. The project manager is in a different department now so they don't care what he thinks. The other engineering manager also retired and, apparently, no one cares about his thoughts either.