When I was a younger worker I certainly did slack off on Friday and Monday when I could get away with it.
I’ve worked in more than one office where people started drinking on Friday afternoon in the office when the CEO was out of town.
If you do think that, it would be an interesting and unusual claim worthy of analysis, but it’s certainly not a reasonable assumption without such analysis.
Edit: the above does preclude the idea that "truth" can have a motive behind it as well, but I don't particularly think he deserves the benefit of the doubt.
Not really. But the general impression from the piece is that he has various less-quantified reasons for wanting more people back to the office and slacker younger workers does seem like a convenient excuse -- especially if there's some truth to it (which is entirely possible). FWIW, if I were in my twenties at this time, I'm not sure I would trust myself to keep plugging away.
Edit: careless not carless ... lol
When the Air Quality Index shot up to ~150 in my area (you want to keep it below 100, preferably below 50), I went to Home Depot and bought box fans and furnace filters and built my own.
You can check the air quality in your area on this site: https://aqicn.org
The AQI in my area is closer to 300 :(
Fuck it, I can’t think about all that. Focus on what’s in your sphere of control and ignore the rest.
March pulled me back into a vicious news cycle after I learned to ignore the news 10+ years ago. It was terrible.
Now I’m back to mostly ignoring the news and life is better.
PS: this is the core teaching of stoicism, focus on what you can control and don’t worry about what you can’t
He's not a goal. He's got a narrative. Is anyone going to question him? And wreck their career?
I was also noting that not being 100% transparent typically gets called deception or propaganda.
Mr D singled out the younger employees but he was also careful not to say it was them and only them. Calling out everyone would be a bad move for moral. So he sliced his "facts" a bit in order to meet his ends. That's deception, and not fraud per se.
It’s only ‘throwing younger people under the bus’ if you use it to support a pre-existing narrative that he isn’t actually making.