Pretty much every link and post and article in every one of my feeds right now is about how horrible everything is and how it is only going to get worse. Most of them are written in a “Can’t you see what is happening, you fools!?” tone, and it is really getting to be more than I can take.

On the one hand, we are told not to close our eyes, not to hide from what is happening, not to fool ourselves into thinking that even if everything is falling apart, at least we are safe. On the other hand, we are told not to take it all upon ourselves, that no one person can take in all of the news and do all of the things.

No company of any size is going to care about its people. Individual managers might, and leadership may talk about it when times are good, but all of that will go in the bin if it means less profit for the company.

I think the same is true of smaller companies as well; there it is just maybe a little harder for management to be assholes because they are so much closer to the actual people they are treating like shit. Employees are always only a means to an end.