pretty much everytime some old guy who knows only 1 very thin layer of IT/programming/networking whatever has hard time finding a job in his municipality he will post an article about it to slashdot(or write a blog post about it or whatever). every 2-3 months one makes it to the front page.
now this has been happening pretty much fucking entire time slashdot has been around so what the fuck.
also a personal opinion on the matter, back in the day 20 years ago when I was doing workplace positioning week in (middle, depends on where you are I suppose what it's called)upper school I went on two years for one week at two different local large factories. both of them had IT staff aged 40-50 AND FUCKING SHOULD HAVE BEEN FIRED INSTANTLY. but then again some 40-60 staff in some places is ok, but very large portion of the people that got into IT in the '80s are pretty shitty in what they do - also quite large portion of people who get into IT today are fucking bad at what they do. it's just the reality setting in on some people who got the sweet gig that demanded nothing of them early on their career... just keep learning new stuff and drop the can't do attitude and you'll get a job no matter the age - if you insist on trying to find another gig running a single script on a sco unix running pc once a week then you're pretty much fucked.