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German railway seeks IT admin to manage MS-DOS and Windows 3.11 systems (www.techspot.com)
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[–] LiveLM@lemmy.zip 53 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)

Ooh, someone is about to make BANK!

[–] GlitchyDigiBun@lemmy.dbzer0.com 35 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Some retired old fart who can't be bothered to learn fancy-schmancy Web 2.0. Rock on like it's '93

[–] ripcord@lemmy.world 10 points 11 months ago

Or a middle-aged fart who did learn new stuff but remembers the old stuff too

[–] Railing5132@lemmy.world 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Web 2.0 was a mistake.

[–] phoneymouse@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

Bring back Pets.com

[–] dhork@lemmy.world 17 points 11 months ago (1 children)

They're gonna party like it's 1989

[–] ultra@feddit.ro 7 points 11 months ago

Celebrating Ceaușescu's death? /j

[–] FatTony@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Why would someone make a lot of money from this?

[–] cybersandwich@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

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.