This Is What the Government Wants

Who is John Galt? This is what they mean by ‘soft quitting’. Show up on time every day, go to your assigned workspace, stand around and don’t do too much. Juuuuuuuuuust enough to not get fired. Maybe.
I’ve been on both sides of the worker/manager fence, and this situation really and truly highlights one of the underlying problems we’re facing in society (overproduction of people who think they’re entitled to a position in the elite class). Managers don’t actually do any work. Their job is to facilitate the workers. Most don’t understand that. I’ve had many like that.
With a very broad paintbrush, Dems/liberals are part of the managerial class (college grads), Conservatives/Repubs tend to be more blue-collar working class type people (this arrangement has existed throughout history in various forms, the romans called them plebe’s). See what happened after Musk bought Twitter -- 80% of the workers there didn’t actually contribute anything to the company. This is the managerial class. They don’t do any actual WORK, they (think they) manage workers. But at no point does a member of this managerial class, actually perform WORK. Frankly they’re incapable (I’d digress….)
The people behind impasse causing the strike, negotiating for the big companies, are all members of the managerial class. They’ve never been punched in the face, they’ve never thrown a square bale of hay onto a trailer, never mind loaded up a field of them (e.g. work). And they’re trying to dictate to long shoremen (of all class of people) the conditions of their employment.
Get your popcorn people…
This is a situation the managerial class honestly simply doesn’t understand.
Their spreadsheet says that crane can unload 12 containers an hour, but Jimmy is only unloading 3 per hour (because he soft-quit and is on strike)… A manager can’t climb up into the crane w/ Jimmy and make him make that machine move 12 containers in an hour. You can yell at him and sanction him, but you can’t make his hands and feet move (even if the manager knew how to properly move them -- which they don’t!) If you fire him the crane sits idle until you hire and train his replacement. Zero containers per hour. 3 is better than zero. This is what the managerial class does not understand -- you NEED workers to achieve WORK. Managers don’t perform work. They facilitate it. If you have a room full of managers and no workers, how much work gets done? NONE! This is one issue the long shoreman are striking over -- AI and robotic unloading machines. They (long shoremen) know their goose is cooked, so they’re turning up the heat now while they still have leverage. In 20 years they’ll all be unemployed, robots will unload the cargo.
The managerial class today has never experienced a strike. They have no idea. They think their spreadsheets equal the real world. They’re going to strike. Get your groceries stocked up this week folks. They won’t be fixing this problem, either. Ask yourself how it will impact you personally and what you can do to address those coming problems.