The Great Reboot

Hmmm, can I recruit youto join The Great Reboot movement?

For some time now wehave been hearing about The GreatResignation which is the term coined for the millions of people on bothsides of the border who quit their jobs during the pandemic. A few months backI wrote a post suggesting that some of these people were misinterpreting ageneral discontent with the state of our society with dissatisfaction in theirjob.

It seems I may have beenon the mark. A recent article reported that one in four workers who quit theirjob during the pandemic now regret doing so. This development has spawned theterm boomerang employees as 40% of thosepeople say they would consider returning to their previous employer if theopportunity arose.

Now the impendingrecession has given to The GreatApprehension – a new term developed to refer to the fact that 75% ofworkers are fearful that they will lose their jobs. That would be a doublewhammy for those workers who regret jumping ship during the last two years.

At the risk of being seenas opportunistic, I am putting forward a new concept. One that I believe is thelogical result of these earlier developments and the tumultuous times we findourselves in. I am called it The GreatReboot.

The term reboot, of course, has been commandeeredby the tech profession. We are told that we need to reboot our internet modems,and sometimes our cable TV boxes, once a month to ensure our connection remainsstable.

Personally speaking, thisreboot requirement irritates me to no end. It pushes responsibility formanaging these quirky, unreliable technologies back onto the end users. Weshould not be letting the techies off the hook in this manner.

But I digress. The Great Reboot I am advocating for isa step that all of us need to take in the near future if not right away. Weneed to take a step back and reconfigure our outlook on life – what we arewilling, and not willing, to accept as the new normal.

The first step in thisprocess is putting our foot down with those who run society and declaring thatwe are not willing to have our civil rights compromised any further. In effect,we need to deliver the message that we elect or appoint these privileged individualsto serve us – not to do as they see fit and herd us like mindless cattle.

The next step is optingout of the I guess that’s just the way itis now mentality. Example: Major infrastructure outages are inevitable. Wejust have to live with them. Instead, we should hold the big telcom companiesresponsible and demand that they get a handle on these runaway technologybeasts they have created.

In the bigger picture, The Great Reboot means redefining whatis important to us rather than allowing ourselves to be told what we should see as important. Life is too short to have ourneeds and desires dictated to us.

So my ask is this: Letus all adopt The Reboot Metaphorwhich means rebooting our mindset and taking control of our lives again. Itwill not be easy. But things that matter never are.

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