> ..we need something, personally or collectively, to acknowledge the complicated and often conflicting experience of surviving a pandemic. > What we don’t nee

> ..we need something, personally or collectively, to acknowledge the complicated and often conflicting experience of surviving a pandemic. > What we don’t need is a bunch of people wondering why we’re being less productive in the workplace as if the answer weren’t right in front of them. Amen to both statements. We don’t need people questioning why isn’t the workforce being more productive - “why are they quiet quitting?” Because you worked your employees to the bone. And you still want more. People are real - they have families. They need to live for something more fulfilling than a job that is always asking for more. We have been systemically deprived of our rights (no more unions, international employees being exploited with no real recourse, medical benefits depending on our jobs). This is a modern form of exploitation of people by companies. Top brass makes disproportionate wealth. Their perks go up every year. Minimum wage gets a paltry increase. Or worse - stays flat. Those in (or seeking) power want us to keep fighting over politics, so we don’t have the time to think for ourselves. No more. Speak up everyone. For yourselves, your friends, your colleagues. Talk about how frustrated you are because your work doesn’t get that your child is sick and needs your attention and love at home. Or that you had a rough breakup. Or that you want to spend your 5 o’clock drinking with buddies, instead of attending a work meeting.