re: #8 Destro

You hit the nail on the head. You have smart people being paid crap wages and this is the result. I always assumed (til I learned better) that Apple store employees were by and large kids in college and this was their part time job while in school (because I knew they were paid really badly) and to my shock this was their full time job.

These employees can’t even live in the cities they service with the wages they get paid.

And they can’t find other jobs because there are none out there.

To be fair, the problem with CS jobs such as these is that there isn’t much economic ‘room’ for better pay. That used to mean that they were jobs for college students etc. around here; with the current situation however, these jobs get taken by full-timers. One of both will have to go - either the employee type/age or the pay level - but that last one would mean the job will simply disappear, I’m afraid.