my tidbit of the SAP world (I now work for a company building connectors to these ERP).

I had a upgrade process meeting for SAP and I invited my usual SAP engineers.

I had a polite decline from one of my favorites so I dropped by her desk to ask her why she wouldn't come.

"I work on SAP 7, not SAP 8. I'm going to be retired in 2 years by the time this project kicks off and dead by the time it's implemented"