Well, no kidding.
Yeah. Nobody here is surprised by that. In fact, he may be getting his hubris by reading our posts here. :-)
Six years ago a guy at my church was laid off from a VERY long term engineering job. After a year of searching for work, his daughter (a checker at Safeway) said to me, “Good news! My dad got a job! He’s working at Lowes. I make more than my dad now, hahaha!”
That was when what this guy is saying hit me.