Oh I should be clear that this person is absolutely a problem. They’re far less effective at their job, don’t learn for long after the question is asked, and the value they bring to the team is, in some ways, less than a fairly young person. And yet they’re paid more because “experience”.
I have the same thing in my field(architecture and structural engineering firms) as a technologist. People who refuse to learn new skills with the software constantly hold back people willing to put in the effort.
Make no mistake, the career path has no bearing on this experience. It is ubiquitous in the workforce.
At one point in my life I was pushing carts in a factory, and some times we’d have to prep the material. People refusing to learn any sort of efficient way to prep the material meant they if they walked over to a cart that needed to be prepped I would change my entire workflow to adapt to being down a person
Oh I should be clear that this person is absolutely a problem. They’re far less effective at their job, don’t learn for long after the question is asked, and the value they bring to the team is, in some ways, less than a fairly young person. And yet they’re paid more because “experience”.
I have the same thing in my field(architecture and structural engineering firms) as a technologist. People who refuse to learn new skills with the software constantly hold back people willing to put in the effort.
Make no mistake, the career path has no bearing on this experience. It is ubiquitous in the workforce.
At one point in my life I was pushing carts in a factory, and some times we’d have to prep the material. People refusing to learn any sort of efficient way to prep the material meant they if they walked over to a cart that needed to be prepped I would change my entire workflow to adapt to being down a person