Prior to my departure my prior company was experiencing something similar - it was almost “night of the living dead” type stuff. People were going through the motions and doing what had to be done, but no more then that. There was no energy ... no “life” in the interactions.
Felt like everyone was just waiting for the next shoe to drop. And this was within a month or so of getting official court release from our FDA consent decree. There should have been a charge in the air and a celebratory mode - but instead just goldfish gaping at the side of the bowl.
That’s it. Lack of vigor. My dev lead who used to be annoying as heck rah rah guy (good for morale), has lost that energy. He’s about to put both of his triple jabbed parents in the dirt and he knows it. Maybe that’s why, but he’s changed. These boys used to fight one another to take on something new to appear the hero, but no longer. I have to beg them or actually assign when no one volunteers. Normally assigning someone to something would be a no no without full team approval, but they just don’t fight any more. It is disconcerting, and We have NO VAX MANDATE (yet)!
A lot of people who are not like us (q watchers...) have gotten very discouraged, hopeless, defeatist, give-up-ers - I know a lot like that. They can’t understand my hope and good cheer. Some I know watch fake news “just to see what they are lying” yet are still infected by it, with hopelessness. Also a lot who go here and there for actual news get blackpilled by pieces of s*** who blackpill for their own nefarious reasons. Blackpilling is a very very bad thing and a lot of people get suckered into despair this way.
I worked on a friend who stayed with us for a couple of hours one night, managed to make some headway, she was severely blackpilled.
On twtter I try to encourage people. Some actual bad news as that does need to get out there, but majority good stuff. Like people protesting all over the entire globe, increasingly.