Executives’ heads are about to explode over the fulcrum of work, heh

I’m of two minds on all the “Great Resignation” stuff — at one level I think managers don’t care that much, and having less people on staff means they can virtue signal about “doing more with less” to the upper management ranks. CEOs I think could give two shits about any of this, so long as the right numbers are pointing the right way on the right graphs. People stuff doesn’t tend to matter to C-Suite unless someone is challenging their authority or someone did something that creates a PR hit. So in general, I don’t think management ranks really care that much.

There’s another side of me, though, that thinks what we’re entering into right now is “The Great Awakening,” where people are frantically scurrying to justify various elements of work that we’ve known are broken for so long. Ed Zitron, who is a more successful version of me writing about how work is terribly broken, nails this in his latest newsletter. One thing he brings up, that’s always been comical to me, is how executives lose their shit when they find out someone is working another job on top of the job they’re paying the person for. I’ve actually been yelled at about this by four different managers (not executives, no). People want to believe they’re “getting their money’s worth” from you, which is so demoralizing to even consider, but it more broadly speaks to…