Incompetent bullshitters
I'm not HP but...
Because we've got incompetent bullshitters as managers there's no hope of things getting better... nothing is proactive anymore... it's all reacting to big problems that should have been addressed/avoided at the planning stage.
They call this process 'agile'.
Why relevant to HP? Some bullshitter types correctly determined that older staff are more expensive and they lacked the awareness that age discrimination was a) immoral b) illegal and c) the cost of the lawsuit, settlement and use of management & lawyer time would exceed cost savings of doing that immoral, illegal thing.
Meanwhile, because they have no idea of how their staff actually do the job, their whole premise that the older workers weren't worth the extra was based on spreadsheets or MI that didn't reflect a good portion of the more experienced employees time was being spent on helping the less experienced staff (or fixing problems created by less experienced staff, or that much of the activity of less experienced staff was creating problems further down the line... my team's workload *reduces* when certain 'productive' people are off...).
Biting the hand that feeds IT
