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"My point is that this article doesn't reflect reality - just whiners."

I disagree, this article certainly reflects the reality of hundreds of thousands of educated, experienced high-tech unemployed Americans in Silicon Valley and the Seattle area where unemployment is particularly high among professionals. There have been a plethora of articles posted here that have explained it in detail and the reasons for drawing attention to the factors causing it.
Those factors include over a million foreign guest workers here on visas and the half million offshored foreigners that are replacing Americans who are first forced to train their younger, less experienced, foreign replacements.
Other factors are the biased trade policies that allow Communist China to dump products made from slave labor while devaluing the Yuan 40%. The WTO is now making decisions for America regarding trade, and we have a gigantic trade deficit. This has contributed to almost 3 million unemployed in 2 years as manufacturing is closed and/or offshored.

[They are likely to earn more, for instance, which means that replacing their lost salaries can be extremely challenging. They frequently have higher levels of education, causing some firms to dismiss them as overqualified. Finally, they often entered management ranks after years of climbing the corporate ladder, but experience means age, and maturity isn't always valued.]

This article reflects reality for IT people throughout major metropolitan areas and what will soon become reality for white collar professionals of all persuasions as more and more jobs are outsourced to Asia. And after Asian salaries rise, Eastern Europe. And after Eastern European salaries rise, South America or Southern Africa.

The party that is willing to fight this is the party that will be in power for the next generation. This is globalism's giant sucking sound, the inexhorable tendency to drive down national wages as it hunts for cheaper and cheaper labor.

And we've been through many a cycle like this and various industries have been hit harder than others through the years. It's an ebb and flow. Furthermore, U.S. unemployment rates are enviable. Perspective is critical, though I recognize many on FR have lost that and seem to be more than willing to join in the pity party. Mr. Gun left Seattle as soon as he saw the shift beginning. No one will take care of your career for you - and seeing the handwriting on the wall is a critical skill.