Given the direction I was seeing (and personally experiencing!) in the defense contractor industry in the 2005-2014 time-frame, I am surprise General Dynamics hadn’t jettisoned all of their experienced and older workers for a bunch of woke college graduates.
I worked for GD until 2012, when I was laid off. Best thing that ever happened to me (I was badly overworked and totally stressed out). I was 59.5 years old and had 24.5 years with the company. I was a former GTE employee, and came over when GD bought the defense side of GTE.
If GD had kept me for another 6 months I would have been owed a much larger separation and retirement. An employment attorney told me years later that I had had an excellent case for a lawsuit.
I have no regrets though. I escaped from that job alive, and have a good pension and excellent health insurance.
That’s why I left GEAE.
I hear you. I bailed from SAIC in 2016, it had become a shadow of its previous self.
They probably came to realize that, at the end of the day, their aircraft had to actually get into the air at some point!
Woke college graduates have high turnover and are clueless—the old timers show up every day and use their experience to solve real world problems.
The old timers are also figuring out that they need to keep a few insider secrets to themselves—otherwise they lose their value.
If the company refuses to be loyal to them, it is just dumb to be loyal to the company.
Management knows better...they know the Boomers are the only ones actually producing on the job. lol