Former Twitter asshole VP, Bruce Daisley, thinks that small businesses are entirely fine with everyone working from home. He’s an example of a well educated person who is COMPLETELY CLUELESS.
Former Twitter asshole VP, Bruce Daisley, thinks that small businesses are entirely fine with everyone working from home. He’s an example of a well educated person who is COMPLETELY CLUELESS.
GrubHub and electricity arrive by magic.
Wrong kfg, the phone is used to “summon” Grub Hub, and electricity comes from those three hole outlets on the wall.
Of course, when it all stops working, he’ll one of the first to sob and whimper.
When they came for small business, I didn’t speak up, because I wasn’t a small business.
Long ago, in a land far away (Toronto), I dated a man who was thoroughly Liberal and worked for the Metro Toronto government. I was self-employed, designed restaurants or “anything that was legal”. He thought that all businesses should be owned by the government. Time passed, he was let go after working for the city 30 years and so, at the age of 55, started his own business, teaching people how to drive, exercise car control, teach evasive techniques to the RCMP and worked on car commercials. Somehow, it was “different” when it was his business.
Gotta love (not!!) these types who have zero connection with average people assuming what they prefer or want.
In economics it’s called selecting preferences for people based on what crony capitalists want. It’s also known as Marxism.
Vote with your ballot, feet and wallet and send a message to these phonies and their shitty propped up statist businesses.
Break them up; kick them out; sue them, charge them. Most of all, bring their disgusting behaviour to the light of day.
Which of course, they will try to censor, with their “fact checkers” aka false narrative verifiers, soon unemployed from home.
Reading of many retail chain bankruptcies.
On my very limited ventures to downtown Vancouver seeing many storefront closures.
All these restaurants paying for empty square footage. No way that deliveries make up the difference. When those leases are up, are they really going to be renewing?
Foreign money is putting their former residential real estate cash into commercial. They don’t care about empty storefronts. They only care about increased value. Hollow stores indeed.
In the years I’ve been travelling to Fort St. John during my working on settling my father’s estate, I noticed a fully-equipped restaurant across the street from the bank I deal with. It was unused and idle when I started going there after my father died more than 4 years ago and it still is.
Similarly, an OSB mill by the airport closed down nearly 2 years ago. Aside from someone keeping the boilers going, there’s been no activity at the facility and I haven’t heard if anybody’s interested in buying it, let alone restarting.
been stripping the guts out of a bar rite down town toronto, Was a very successful one till covid, in a prime location.
Friends son lost his music conservatory / teaching bus. as well, but pols/bureaucraps / gov’t employees never missed a damn pay check.
So I suppose a machine shop would be pleased if everybody worked from home? People like my father could but he bought all his equipment himself and set it up in his garage. Even then, there were limits as to what he could do there compared to what he worked on while he was working full-time as a machinist.
That dumbass has absolutely no idea how a real business works. I worked part-time for the same company my father did. It wasn’t just a machine shop. It also had an inventory of other products, parts, and materials that were related to its business and kept them all in close proximity so that the tradesmen who worked there could use them.
If restaurant moves from in person service to delivery only, they don’t need a storefront, they can just rent out a commercial kitchen, and you’ll find more and more restaurants going to that model…. I wouldn’t be surprised if you see fast food places doing that too and shutting down their eat in space permanently… tim hortons already has lots of those that are drive in/walk up only, with no seating or washrooms
With Covid tape all over
“If restaurant moves from in person service to delivery only . . .”
. . . they will need employees who do not work from home.
kfg, Sorry to double down on you.
I’m sure they’ll soon invent internet delivery for Grub Hub and the like.
I’m of two minds… Of course not all small businesses will be able to survive if EVERYONE works from home. And I’m ok with that. Here’s why. Getting up at 7am and driving for an hour into a city and then through busy traffic to go into an office building is such a bad anachronism. It’s obsolete. I was one who transitioned seamlessly into working from home. I continue to do my job, without a problem, completely from home. And I can honestly say that I simply can never go back to the old way of working. But the only reason I can do this is because I have a very specific type of job that CAN be done from home. So here’s where it gets asinine: I’m being forced to “go back to the office” and I recently found out why. It’s because the elites, who I HATE, got together and decided that it’s best to force everyone back into the office so that the downtown core doesn’t wither and die. Here’s the thing, it should wither and die. There’s really no productive reason why 14 Asian cuisine restaurants are needed in a 8 square block area in the downtown area. And on top of that, another 10 or 20 other restaurants. It’s absurd. At the same time, government orders to limit small business owners’ ability to do business, on purpose, needs to stop immediately.
I work for a rather large insurance brokerage and I’ve been working from home since September of 2019. I love it and it allows me to get more done in a day now that I don’t lose hours to the extroverts who need work as a social outlet. I’m now providing more and better service. Obviously not all jobs can be done remotely like mine (I was a chef in my first career, so, yeah). There’s now some corporate pressure to get people into offices in my company as well as they want them supporting the surrounding businesses. Sorry, no. I’m hard enough to replace that I can easily jump to another employer who will let me stay home to work.
Those who don’t need to work in an office shouldn’t be forced to.
Part of my job could be performed from home. I refuse to do it. After 35 years in the corporate workplace, I find it extremely difficult to “work from home”.
Home is supposed to be my safe space (lol) away from work. Home should be a place of solace. When I’m off or on vacation and at home, the damn cell phone is still ringing and co-workers and clients are still blowing up my email. Makes me nuts because work is invading my home.
Nope. Not working from home. I’ll retire first.
I think what you say is fine. Unless you work for Government. If you work for Government I want to torture you and make you show up everyday. I want my moneys worth or I want you to take a big pay cut. Ha Ha Ha Ha.
It’s obsolete. Thank you for telling the little people how to live.
Why don’t you try, instead, staying the eff out of the way while we make our own choices.
Don’t like what your bosses are doing, now that you’ve found out that companies don’t need a big downtown footprint? Then find someone in your business that does. My company has noted that I’ll be sharing an office for the next year, and has asked which days I need to / would most like to work in the office instead of home. Part of the reason they’re doing that is that they polled us to find out what we wanted after they found out that many of our group’s productivities increased after we started working from home. The company is downsizing downtown while adding people in the city (because that’s where many of our specialists want to live) because the rural life near the mines isn’t for everyone.
He’s not clueless…he’s dangerous. He doesn’t believe a word of what he’s peddling cause no one can be that god damned stupid.
But he’s a good little globalist worker bee so he does what he’s told.
Had a lively conversation with an NDP Commie MLA, versus a LIB Commie or CPC Commie. His contention was that as far as he was concerned ad in his educated opinion. He had a degree from some puppy mill, the Government should be taxing away as much as 80% of everybodys income. That 20% of our income was more than enough for any working folk to get by on.
Really not a Fffing clue and never worked a day in his useless life other than University and straight into Government.
He was an example of why you should never surrender your guns. Because you will need them.
I had the last word tho because like I told him, why would anyone work all day in order to hand over 80% of everything to you or anyone else.
Of course in his mind, he would not be taking a cut in income and benefits because he was part of the government.
You can vote your way into socialism but you will always have to shoot your way out. History tells us this again and again.
I worked from an Toyota SR5/Dodge Ram/F-150 in that order for thirty odd years. It’s why you can still heat your home/office/drive to work and farmers run their machinery etc, etc, etc. But TPTB have decided to “go green” and short range electric for personal use and “densify” cities. Farmers scratch their heads. The only electric train I had close contact with, was when I was 5 years old. Kan-eh-duh is some 6000 km, east to west. They burn diesel. That’s what those “Tar Sands ™” are best at….running industry and farm tractors and CN/CP trains. Jet fuel too, so jets to take Sock Boy to surf in Tofino can fly. That’s just slightly more refined diesel. Even Kaybec burns a lot of diesel, except they turn their noses up on Kan-eh-jian diesel/jet fuel for Middle Eat sources. No GST.
Government is clueless and even my Professional Association was even more clueless. It’s all about their paychecks and pensions, while you jump through hoops for yours. Don’t get me started on TAXES.
So, now we can magically serve people meals, fix plumbing and electrical installations, build houses, decks and additions, sell exotic plants, walk dogs, diagnose patients, and manufacture goods, all from the comfort of our home office/restaurant/hospital/wood shop/machine shop/injection molding facility/greenhouse/induction furnace/forge…
The levels of idiocy on display are mind-numbing.
The only people who can work from home are those who have the boring mindless job of staring at a computer screen all day whilst the arse widens and the back deteriorates. But useless pointless paper work gets worked on I suppose.
ponce!