Though I empathize with senior people of the software industry, I will like to add some other perspective to this discussion. I am from the Oil and Gas industry in Operations domain, nothing to do with software. Previously I have worked for IBM as a software engineer. Hence, I have the perspective of both industries. From this discussion thread, it seems that senior people are looking for exclusivity and immunity. I can correlate it with seniors of my industry. My company is government owned. Here, seniors people (by age, not by rank / +1 rank but the same job responsibility) command juniors (by age, not by rank / -1 rank but the same job responsibility) and seldom do any work. They come to office late, leave office early citing family issues everyday. When I bring up the topic to my boss, he says I need to understand they are like that, can't help. Sometimes he says "Learn from them, how to get work done by others". Those others are younger people like us - 22 to 40 age groups.