>>5608041I work at a software company that started as a small business in the 80s and was bought out by a bigger tech company in 2010 to avoid going bankrupt after the recession. They are now modernising and reducing the massive staff numbers and offshoring, outsourcing and automating whatever is left.
There was a massive generational divide when I started a couple years ago before they started cutting the fat and reducing staff numbers. The workforce was literally 50% boomers and 45% late Gen-x (born late 60s/early 70s). Practically no Millenials under 30, though most of the Boomers and Gen X started with the company in their 20s and worked there for like 20+ years.
The company had bloated into a massive beast with 5 people doing the job of one person. Most of the time they would browse the internet and bitch and moan when asked to do anything work-related, and would drag their feet and do it as slowly as possible. Alot of them had meme jobs like "Customer Success Consultant" or "Principal Integration Analysis Consultant", on top of the hordes of HR/Payroll/Marketing drones and 5 Managers per team. Apparently it was even worse pre-2008 before the buyout, with even more pointless positions and getting given stock options, yearly non-target based bonuses, company credit cards and cars etc.
Most of them have been cut loose now, with the Boomers taking early retirement with their massive 20 year Severance package and the Gen X women becoming full-time housewives for their 1 kid and the Gen-X men going to work at some tech startup as a "Consultant" earning 50,000 - 70,000 a year. No Millenials can replace them as their jobs literally don't exist anymore, and the ones that do are either in cheaper foreign countries or have such a massive barrier of entry for the ones that do remain due to management's paranoia that they'll become un-fireable useless seat warmers like the Boomers were.
