and go where? What jobs do you think is coming back?
People who just graduated from school need to go where the work is and work for anyone who will take them. People who already have certifications and already have experience in specialized fields can go anywhere they want. If you're some kind of process control automation engineering guy with 10 years of experience, there are lots of places that want to hire you.
What I've seen and heard several times is where the experienced guys have inexperienced helpers. Like you'll have a 20-year senior engineer, but he has a fresh grad helping him with things like changing drawings, contacting people, looking for defined terms in legal documents, etc. The company decides it needs to get rid of people, so it fires the experienced guy doing all this bitch work. Suddenly the senior guy is overloaded because now he's doing his regular engineering stuff as well as bitch work and word searches and fucking with the copier. The senior guy doesn't need this crap, so he goes to a different company.
