They need us. They need us buying the cars. They need us lined up in the drive thru. They need us to drive past the ads. To swing by the store after work.
The technology is for them. The revolution is for them. The freedom is for them. The leisure is for them. To stroll through the store on Tuesday morning.
We’re the resource. They’re the consumers.
This is extremely dumb. If you’re wasting money on something you stop spending money on it, you don’t use it for the sake of using it… that’s still wasting money just less obvious.
That’s why my company sold our building. The majority of employees wanted to continue working from home and the building wasn’t big enough for our company anyway. It needed a lot of work so they sold it. No mention of a new facility or RTO in 3 years.
Breaking those types of leases and selling those types of buildings off or not trivial. They will need to figure out a way to ease out of the market, but until then, this is the way they rationalize it
Organize, unionize, strike. They made a bad gamble buying all that overpriced commercial real estate and want to push the loss onto workers.
Cool. Perhaps they should consider instead fucking off and dying.
Sunk cost falacy
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