JD has said in that audio that this culture of dynamic working, even four day work weeks is, is semi-diseased.
“And don't give me the sh-t that work from home Friday works. I, I call a lot of people on Friday and not a godda-n person to get a hold of.”
The thing I would ask you to note in that recording is not really the content or the fact that JD thinks that working seven days a week is something we should all aspire to…
He keeps ranting:
“I've been working seven days a godda-n week since COVID, and I come in…Where's everybody else but here and there and the zooms?”
What I notice is his TONE!
He says he's not angry at the young people he seems to hold in such contempt, but his voice, it ripples with rage. A colleague of mine once told me this quote, that many people hate change because they see change as violence against the status quo, and they react to change as if it is violence against them.
His voice, barely containing his rage, is exactly that, a response to the change, to a status quo that he has been comfortable with for all his life.
An environment that he thinks all people in his organization, and indeed in every organization, should be subject to.
An environment where working seven days a week is something to aspire to, when it is not.