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I saw that happen once. We got saddled with someone who didnât want to be there. Fortunately he came around and started to see us as professionals. I would think that isnât happening here though.
> On Feb 23, 2020, at 2:07 PM, Gene Kim-Eng <techwr -at- genek -dot- com> wrote:
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> ïIn the "olden days" when I was an engineer, companies often created jobs with descriptions like this for high-value tech people who were thinking about retirement. The idea was to delay retirement by reducing the person's workload to keep their knowledge and experience in-house as long as possible.
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> Today it's pretty rare for companies to give a damn about keeping people with long experience and deep technical knowledge onboard when they make noises about being ready to retire, but I suppose there might still be some around who care about things like that.
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> Gene Kim-Eng
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>> On 2/23/2020 9:58 AM, Peter Neilson wrote:
>> I think descriptions like that are aimed at installing a pre-chosen person, and exist only to fulfill a requirement that they "tried" to find someone to fill it.
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