Twenty years is not that long ago. Is everyone from that era with the knowledge now retired?
This is what happens when institutional knowledge is not passed down because companies insist on hiring those that think their degree in gender students and grievance posturing is sufficient to power the world.
Did no one in our military think it might be important to make sure those companies had a plan to pass on this knowledge to a few of the younger generation?
This is the type of thing I fear happening to our infrastructure such as the power grid after all that can actually “do” are pushed out and gone and those in charge know nothing regarding the systems they are left to maintain.
It’s much like when the tech guy who builds your company’s computer system leaves to go elsewhere. If no one else knows where the bailing wire and chewing gum connections are located then you are in a deep spot when the system crashes.
“Did no one in our military think it might be important to make sure those companies had a plan to pass on this knowledge to a few of the younger generation?”
The problem is that there aren’t really any incentives for people to stay with a company, as pensions and retirement medical care have been wiped out, at least based on what my cousin tells me. So people simply come, work a few years, then go once a better offer is secured. I suspect the Nursing Home generation was the last bunch to have a ‘traditional’ retirement package, so they stayed long enough to know the ropes.
We should be THANKING Putin, for if he didn’t invade Ukraine, most of the people in the Nursing Homes would have ‘checked out’ before the TOTAL IDIOTS in DC figured out just how exposed we are.
“It’s much like when the tech guy who builds your company’s computer system leaves to go elsewhere. If no one else knows where the bailing wire and chewing gum connections are located then you are in a deep spot when the system crashes.”
As it happens, it was part of my job to do just that. I spent a lot of time teaching. That IS a priority in the infrastructure world.