Not to be dismissive or mean but what percentage of the workforce are "old timer" professors and lecturers? If I've learned anything about academia is that the

Not to be dismissive or mean but what percentage of the workforce are "old timer" professors and lecturers? If I've learned anything about academia is that the most common personality trait of this demographic is their own sense of self-importance. Often as a consequence of their own local job/life experience where young people look up to you before entering real life, combined with the typical boring institutional hierarchies. Making a big deal about their retirement/exit, or at least connecting it to something wider and currently culturally relevant, is on-character in that context. This was satirized very well in a film I just watched recently so maybe I'm biased https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5536736/ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5536736/