More money, good on you. Starting off your critique of your former colleagues with "technically ept people'...not going to get a lot of sympathy for the correctness of your work.
from the OED:
ept, adj. Pronunciation: /ɛpt/ Etymology: Back-formation < inept adj.
Used as a deliberate antonym of ‘inept’: adroit, appropriate, effective.
1966 Time 30 Sept. 7/1 With the exception of one or two semantic twisters, I think it is a first-rate job—definitely ept, ane and ert.
1976 N.Y. Times Mag. 6 June 15 The obvious answer is summed up by a White House official's sardonic crack: ‘Politically, we're not very ept.’
The OED is a gold standard, though.
Etymology is straight from Latin: ineptus, which is prefix in- plus aptus (fitting or suitable). Interestingly there's also inapt which is quite similar.
edit: aheilbut's research on this is much more thorough.