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Do the older staff take questions well? I guess I'm getting closer to the old crowd now, but as a youngster coming into a job, I ALWAYS asked a LOT of questions because I'd rather learn to do it right the first time than do it wrong for months and get in trouble and have to correct now ingrained habits. Some people were very helpful, others were complete ass holes about it. I kept asking questions either way, but the environment where questions were discouraged, I got a reputation for being inept rather than curious and diligent... Jobs that answered my questions got a hell of a lot less questions pretty quickly along with good work product from me. When a team is constantly putting newbies down for asking questions, you get shitty work product from probably well meaning but poorly trained people.
Per TeamBlind they're doing so over 3 months.
Instead of a 5% staff reduction they get 100% of their staff panicking and interviewing elsewhere. Great thinking! >

If they quit and find a new job no severance! >

But then you get good workers, who weren’t going to get cut, leaving for elsewhere. >

But now they can hire cheaper less experienced people to do the same but lower quality work while making more profit! This is how large companies decline in quality. >

I wish we would hire some young developers, we have entire teams where everyone is over 40 because they don't want to spend time training anyone. >

I'm over 40.  Where I work, management tries to accomplish "training" by throwing the younger workers right into a complex task, and telling the more senior people to be on-call for questions and support.  Inevitably what happens is that the younger folks never ask questions, then when the SHTF, the senior folks have to scramble to figure stuff out in the remaining schedule.  It's pretty stressful.