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Tone deaf CEO threatens employees
I just read the most tone deaf opinion in the Washington Post on employees going back to work that I have seen since the pandemic started. Cathy Merrill is the CEO of Washingtonian Media (aka the Washingtonian magazine). Lets break this piece down in real time:
Like many of my fellow small-business owners, I am excited about the prospect of returning to in-person work but am struggling with when and how to safely reopen our office — how many days a week, vaccination requirements, mask mandates and so on.
We all are Cathy. Most of us don’t want to go back to the office full time.
But also like my peers, I am concerned about the unfortunately common office worker who wants to continue working at home and just go into the office on occasion.
What the hell is an “unfortunately common office worker”? Sounds like some kind of indentured servant. Did you ask your employees what they want to do? Sounds like you made up your mind in a vacuum…
In several group calls with chief executives, I’ve found a great sense of pride in how well our teams have done during the past year.
A lot of us corporate worker bees worked longer and harder than we have in a long time, so thanks for that!
However, we all started at a place where we and our employees…
