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Suck it up, Buttercup! The Remote Revolution is Over
Power to the people! The problem is we never had the power, to begin with.
I don’t know why we, as employees, thought we held the authority.
Lately, we have been smelling the aroma of our pride through the internet.
“I’ll just quit and find another job or become a TikToker.”
Never has anyone felt more empowered to boast these words than the class of 2021 and beyond.
“I want to work for a company that will allow me to make my own schedule, my own salary, on their dime, right from the comfort in my sweat pants!”
Such demands only exist in a sequel to Ransom starring Mel Gibson
The great resignation saw a mass exodus of employees leaving positions for greener pastures online. The taste of sweet, sweet passive income was near.
Earn more money for less work. It’s the global desire of wantrepreneurs to convert their smartphones into ATM machines.
The great resignation was a fool's errand and a misnomer. A better identity would have been “the great desperation” or “the great delusion.”
People weren’t desperate to find work but to make a dream a reality.
The American dream isn’t a house with a white picket fence, a dog, a gorgeous spouse, and bright, intelligent children. No, no, no, no.
The American dream today is to make money without doing a damn thing to attract it to you.
Delusions of Grandeur
Let's be honest: doing what you love still requires a modicum of work. I love video games but count me out if I have to play any iteration of a Barbie virtual simulation for user testing and quality assurance before going to market.
The problem is that when the feeling of work begins to infiltrate what you love, we have a problem.
At the beginning of the cursed virus going viral, I was responsible for hiring people at a local design company. We struggled to find new blood because we couldn’t compete with the government’s weekly stimulus and Facebook’s clout machine:
Instagram.
“Oh, I’m going to be an…
