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OK so first world problems here, but how do you all manage going to work and doing your job everyday (assuming you are a wagie like me) knowing that the job and even the company may not exist in a year?
My employer is blissfully unaware of the coming economic storm in Europe. We’re entirely reliant on German steel and industrial electronics. Those inputs are already hard to get and it’s not even winter. Yet the owners say we’ll be fine because we generate our own heat and electricity.
It’s not like I’m attached to this job and company, quite the opposite, but it’s just really difficult for me to put in even the bare minimum of effort knowing that it’s probably all futile.
Or am I just being too nihilistic and doomer about this?
Doubt it. Make no mistake - when the owners say “we’ll be fine”, they very likely mean they will be fine. Possibly the company as well. The workers will be thrown under the bus at the first opportunity.
As for how to manage pretending everything’s fine and going through the motions, well. I don’t think you necessarily should. Go to work, as it gets you money, but start looking for a way out.
I’m not sure that the owners did mean that they specifically will be fine. They are indeed absolutely atrocious people and do not hide the fact that they’re out of touch resource hoarders and human exploiters. But the way they communicated this was more like “don’t worry about energy shortages, we make our own so the lights will stay on.” Which is true as far as it goes, the lights will stay on, but we will likely not have enough raw materials to produce the product.
Unfortunately my expertise at this point lends itself to production management/support, which is a declining industry in the west - manufactured inputs shortage or not.
Don’t go to work for the company, go to work for the paycheck. Is the company doomed to fail? Probably. So what though. You didn’t join them because you wanted to help them succeed, you joined for a paycheck.
Get paid. Laugh when they cry. Repeat until revolution.