I think we should just go ahead and fire all the people over age 50 and deal with the consequences. We would have to rebuild a great deal of our IT systems given that the few old engineers who weren't replaced long ago with short-term offshore contractors have made sure to hoard knowledge so young engineers can't learn the systems effectively. So many of these groups incorrigibly hold on to practices 20 years outdated and the systems are so barely maintainable that we would be better off to burn them to the ground, lose all the customers that refuse to upgrade their ends, and start over. We could mark this stuff down to zero (which is more than they are worth) and be honest to Wall Street when we have the IPO.
I have seen very well that trying to merge two ridiculously convoluted systems into one results in triple the insanity. Doing this over and over again through repeated mergers makes things impossible to maintain let alone improve with ever reduced resources.
What is really sad is that although we are supposedly HITRUST certified (and innumerable other "certifications", we can't even change the database and ftp passwords on our claiming network servers. They are hardcoded and we don't remotely have the engineering resources to fix this so we just keep sweeping it under the rug and have been resetting them the same for over a decade.
I am already suspecting I am on the RIF list so I might as well dish now.
Originally posted by @RCCkzFc-dvxf.