I am currently sitting in my home one day after we were hit by a cyclonic storm. It has passed and we are safe, but it has ruined all internet lines, cut off power and flooded roads.
The government has also passed an orange alert and advised all educational, and private sector institutions to not function.
And I then got a mail from my company. We, underpaid freshers with 3 months of experience, are supposed to work at home during the cyclone.
Needless to say not a single person worked because of revolt, or union or anything. It was simply because we didn’t have the power or internet to. Why was it so unfathomably unacceptable to give a day of leave for those who are literally incapable of working? Worse of all a few people were at risk of illness, injury or death.
Is the upper management so disconnected from reality that they cannot even look past their ideals and make practical and feasible decisions? I think so.