12 Weeks In

How long have we been living like this? I think it’s 12 weeks or so but it seems much longer somehow. When is it all going to end? How do we get back to something that approaches normality?

the powers that be

Of course, it’s easy to criticise, but the truth is I don’t envy anyone having to make decisions about how we safely get our economies opened up again.  Across the world, leaders have already made mistakes which have cost lives and knowing that the decisions you make today could lead to more deaths is a massive burden for anyone to bear.  In many ways, going into lockdown was the easy part.  It seems coming out of it is going to prove far more difficult.

why me?

Many employees that have gone back already in the first wave are just plain miserable. And it shows. The staff are often the ambassadors of a business. Our perception of a business comes from our contact with its staff, however for many of them, their work colleagues and loved ones are still at home getting paid at least 80% of their former weekly wages. For doing nothing! Why should they work a forty hour week for just 20% more? It’s no wonder consumers derive little pleasure from any form of physical shopping. Make the customers angry and they will go elsewhere.

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