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A bit off topic perhaps, but where I work at "big corp" there are so many people who have worked at the company for 15-20-30 years, it's really incredible. They
by purplelobster 13y ago
A bit off topic perhaps, but where I work at "big corp" there are so many people who have worked at the company for 15-20-30 years, it's really incredible. They've built their whole lives around big corp, they've bought a house nearby, live somewhere where there aren't many alternative jobs. They've worked on the same thing for at least a decade, and they only ever "changed jobs" within the company itself.
I have a very bad feeling that these people will be tasting the result of the faster global world very soon. People in my generation will never be relaxed and content with their job (for better or worse), because we know it might not exist in a year or two.
- msoad 13y agoI see all those people here in Silicon Valley too. I know a guy who worked for IBM optical storage systems (ones with robotic hand/mounter). He was a director in his team. All of sudden their team got shot down and he got laid off. Now he works as a developer in Cisco. All he knows is C and Assembly. He don't even know what Git is. It's amazing how people in past had one job and relied on it so much...