You're an idiot if you think age or years of experience correlates to being competent. I tend to find the opposite is more likely to be true if anything. Old timers have had way more chances to get into the roles they're in by being promoted by people who dont understand what they do than people who've only been in the industry a few years, they're more experienced at office politics and blaming others for their failures, they tend not to have grown up with computers making them less adaptable, and perhaps most importantly their skills are quite often stale and outdated - if they've been in the same job for years, which they most likley have seeing as how older people tend to jump around less than younger ones, they dont know anything except the things they did in that job.
