I remember being offered a local position that required me to maintain the company mainframe (with RPG2). It was quite interesting because they were doing a lot

I remember being offered a local position that required me to maintain the company mainframe (with RPG2). It was quite interesting because they were doing a lot of things by hand that could simply be achieved with a little scripting (in this case, Python and Perl). Things like daily sales numbers were still added up in some obscure Excel spreadsheet (this is the biggest restaurant franchise operator in the Caribbean). The potential to innovate inside the company was huge. But no, their mainframe guy made it clear that the job was to continue on with his legacy of writing obscure job-securing (as he put it) code. I declined all the offers they made, and they are still looking for someone to fill in the position (and will be for a long time). It was sad to experience such situation. A new chance to inject some productivity inducing innovation being shut down by mediocrity. Still, it was fun talking to an old RPG programmer. Even C sounded like an exotic language to him. :)