This was kind of how I felt when COVID was taking over the world. There was literally a pandemic where people were dying and our bosses were all scrambling to keep productivity up.
It’s like dude, brad, our metics aren’t the most important thing right now.
Until some businesses found out the hard way that if a few critical people are sick for weeks, maybe months or even die, a department stops running and without that department the entire company shuts down. That’s when companies changed their minds with remote work and measures.
Restaurants around here are mostly closed during the holidays because they can’t find enough people. Lots of their workers were laid off and found work with better pay and/or hours and didn’t come back. The whole sector is now permanently understaffed.
They found out, sure, but did they remember and permanently adjust their priorities and behavior to something more long term sustainable in response? Nope!
During the pandemic, I was in management at an office supply retail store. It was insane that we were open, and even more insane the people who wanted to shop. Boomer people who felt that we were keeping them from the damn printer ink and paper. People were dying and they were worried about being able to print the silly email Aunt Helen sent them.
This was kind of how I felt when COVID was taking over the world. There was literally a pandemic where people were dying and our bosses were all scrambling to keep productivity up.
It’s like dude, brad, our metics aren’t the most important thing right now.
Until some businesses found out the hard way that if a few critical people are sick for weeks, maybe months or even die, a department stops running and without that department the entire company shuts down. That’s when companies changed their minds with remote work and measures.
Restaurants around here are mostly closed during the holidays because they can’t find enough people. Lots of their workers were laid off and found work with better pay and/or hours and didn’t come back. The whole sector is now permanently understaffed.
They found out, sure, but did they remember and permanently adjust their priorities and behavior to something more long term sustainable in response? Nope!
During the pandemic, I was in management at an office supply retail store. It was insane that we were open, and even more insane the people who wanted to shop. Boomer people who felt that we were keeping them from the damn printer ink and paper. People were dying and they were worried about being able to print the silly email Aunt Helen sent them.
Boomers are 100% a liability in any survival scenario.