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Snow Days
Do you remember loving snow days? Yay! Stay home. Be with family. Gone are those days. Now that we have demonstrated we can work from home, snow days just means working from home. In general, I would be okay working from home, but disruption in normal duties requires engaging in work that doesn’t fall to my purview except on a snow day. No PTO allowed. In short, there is labor shortage and work isn’t getting done, and so company, necessarily, needs those who remain working to pick up the slack. Not picking up slack means company doesn’t get paid, and then it can’t serve the community.
It’s a problem for mental health. Quite frankly, if the work doesn’t get done, and government quits paying, then the company’s ability serve will go away. You would think I would care. I have moved to a place beyond caring. I have a coffee cup, and it feels like I am being asked to bail out water as the Titanic goes down. I would rather join the band as those who can abandon ship do so. That’s happening. People are quitting and retiring because they see the writing on the wall.
Community Mental Health was a stopgap to help those in society that feel though the cracks. Now, it’s the staple. Since COVID, community mental health as been in crisis mode, but the state’s expectation is we provide all the same service bills per the original measure. We are…
