[Cobol78]

Yes, they hired a 24 year old college grad into personnel and she/he copied some old specs used by companies that wanted to bring in H1b programmers from off-shore.

The job specs were 40 lines long and pay was $60,000 a year for 10 years experience.

Then there were the places that brought in consultants that were doing a big rewrite, ignored the local staff and impressed management with their dark blue suits and white shirts, and left 6 years later without the project done. During that time the best of their own programmers left and they were left with the dregs and those a few years from retirement. Thought about doing this but I remember how we were treated. I left a job like that in Texas, worked in a shop in Connecticut with a room full of empty cubicles, and one very old guy and one new hire who knew Access.

Even the Director of MIS was being cut there but allowed to stay a few more months to apply for other jobs without saying he was unemployed.

I left.