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“It’s WiFi Poisoning …”
For a blogger focusing on topics around work and life ,the hardest thing about lockdowns and social distancing is where to find inspiration for articles. There are very few people out and about, and even when there are some around, you can’t get close enough to eavesdrop on conversations! Okay, I jest about eavesdropping and generally I’m a mind my own business kinda guy, but still inspiration has to come from somewhere.
Thankfully, COVID-19 hasn’t stopped certain individuals from shouting into their mobile phones when out in public. On the bus home from work yesterday there were two people siting downstairs: myself, and a lady about four rows up. She was talking so loudly to the person at the other end of the line that passengers on the bus behind could have heard her, never mind me. So, listening in wasn’t so much a decision taken as an action forced upon me. Having said that, if you heard someone say “It’s WiFi poisoning,” you’d definitely listen in too, right? That’s exactly what I did and here’s what I overheard.
“It’s WiFi poisoning … COVID-19 doesn’t really exist. That’s just what the government is telling us … they don’t want us to know the truth…”
Life just hit us all in the head with a brick … Hail the fail.
There is naturally a lot of doom and gloom about in business circles, and life generally, at present. Sure, we must remain optimistic and look to better days – they will return - but we also have to accept that there is going to be carnage for a while. On the business front, the projections for the survival of many enterprises are stark which in turn has huge implications for owners, managers, employees and indeed customers. For people. Every business whether large and small, new or established, old-school or cutting edge is in a dogfight for survival right now. I am in the same fight as everyone else in this regard so this is not theoretical for me. And sadly, many companies will not make it. No matter what happens, failure is going to be a big part of our lives in the months and years ahead.
That is why it is time to talk about failure. But talk about it in a different way.
