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surely there was more to the story. hard to believe it was only attributable to age without some context.



No, not really. It seemed quite strongly that the reason was due to his age, but the official reason was that he couldn't learn new skills very well. The problem was, he seemed to be learning them pretty decently.


I saw that happen to my father and a number of his co-workers (scientists and engineers) at a mining company forty years ago.




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