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Tech Training Schools Going Bust
superflippy writes "The Associated Press reports that many tech training schools which opened during the last few years are now shutting their doors. During the dot-com boom, there was the perception that a few months of computer training could lead to a fabulous job. Now, it seems all these schools have produced are unemployed people with student loans and dubious certifications."
(AP) Dateline 2/20/2020 Washington DC
Tens of thousands of unemployed baby boomer information technology workers were called "highly disgruntled" today as they spread deadly carcinogens in the air conditioning intakes of the offices of executives, boards of directors and major stock holders of the fortune 1000 companies as well as targeting the entirety of Forbes' wealthiest Americans. Complaining that after 19 years working as Home Depot stocking clerks, burger flippers, window washers and waiters, they had to live on $872/month when a fly-over-country efficiency apartment costs $550/mo the retired information technology workforce seemed to experience "the blue screen of death" en masse.
Wired magazine editor, Rajiv Gupta, told the AP: "Yes we've been expecting this sort of eruption of discontent for a while now. Many people just don't understand how globalization works but in the case of the American baby boomers its the fact that they're so spoiled they think they deserve to be making as much money as they did at the height of the dot-com bubble. If it weren't so horrific, it would be just sad. Too bad no one put them down before they faced death due to their laziness."...
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