“Oh man, our company has just been put through the ringer with covid and the recession and no one wanting to work”

says the boss who also immediately places any common sense ideas to save money and increase efficiency directly into the garbage. Your company isn’t struggling because of external factors; your company is struggling because you think you are owed treating your employees like mindless automatons. You’re bad at business and can’t own up to your failures, so you use every excuse you can to play the victim. Nobody likes you, nor being around you.