Lee Duna to TechnologyEnglish • 8 months agoGerman railway seeks IT admin to manage MS-DOS and Windows 3.11 systemswww.techspot.comexternal-linkmessage-square221fedilinkarrow-up1861arrow-down116
arrow-up1845arrow-down1external-linkGerman railway seeks IT admin to manage MS-DOS and Windows 3.11 systemswww.techspot.comLee Duna to TechnologyEnglish • 8 months agomessage-square221fedilink
minus-squareKit SorenslinkfedilinkEnglish60•8 months agoSome retired old fart who can’t be bothered to learn fancy-schmancy Web 2.0. Rock on like it’s '93
minus-square@ripcordlinkEnglish13•8 months agoOr a middle-aged fart who did learn new stuff but remembers the old stuff too
minus-square@cybersandwichlinkEnglish3•8 months agoSupply and demand. The people that have a lot of experience with those systems are retired or should be retiring soon. Supply is pretty low. So they can demand higher pay. DB’s demand is pretty strong. If those systems go down, trains don’t run, and that costs them millions. It’s cheaper to pay someone a lot of money vs having their systems fail.
Ooh, someone is about to make BANK!
Some retired old fart who can’t be bothered to learn fancy-schmancy Web 2.0. Rock on like it’s '93
Or a middle-aged fart who did learn new stuff but remembers the old stuff too
Web 2.0 was a mistake.
Bring back Pets.com
They’re gonna party like it’s 1989
Celebrating Ceaușescu’s death? /j
Why would someone make a lot of money from this?
Supply and demand. The people that have a lot of experience with those systems are retired or should be retiring soon.
Supply is pretty low. So they can demand higher pay.
DB’s demand is pretty strong. If those systems go down, trains don’t run, and that costs them millions.
It’s cheaper to pay someone a lot of money vs having their systems fail.