[sarge83]

I am closing in on 30 years at my place of employment. The newer employees complain about everything, produce very little and have trouble doing their basic duties. Out of forty or so people on this worksite you have about ten that knows what is going on and what to do to make things run. I have watched highly competent people be marginalized or forced into retirement because they were making incompetent administration look like buffoons.

If the market recovers enough the remainder of the year I am retiring and out of here. My recently retired co-worker said to me when I told her my plans they will close our department down when you retire because they don’t have a clue how to run it. I said I know, but I’m tired of the childish behavior and management, I have better things to do at my age.

[Myrddin]

I was going to retire last year, but Biden's incompetence shaved $300k off my retirement account. The political instability and teetering banks prompted me to stay another year to generate as much value as I can while it is possible to do so. My wife is dealing with 3 days of 12 hour shifts and 1 day of 6 hour shift to cover after 3 of the 7 dispatchers got pregnant and delivered at the end of Dec 2022. Now 4 people have to manage 7 X 24 support for police/fire/EMS. She is ready to retire in August. I'll hold on until December so she has healthcare coverage. I'll have 32 years with the current employer on Dec 9th.

This extra year has given me an opportunity to get involved in AI/ML and sensor data collection work. More interesting than re-engineering standalone server applications to run in cloud environments inside kubernetes clusters.