There might be more applicants if businesses did away with the stupid mask requirements.
“There might be more applicants if businesses did away with the stupid mask requirements.”
Except where they were required by government, I think the mask requirements are a consequence of the always increasing push for companies to SEEM like “stakeholders” and “members of the community,” “green,” “progressive,” etc. As an employee I was required to use a percentage of my salary to buy bonds, and/or contribute to a company selected charity or bring in can goods, or collect aluminum, or paint poor people’s houses. The list was ever changing and ever increasing and designed for the company to present an image of what a wonderful member of the community they were. I can tell you that we employees mostly resented this forced charity. You can imagine the board members suddenly seeing a wonderful opportunity to further increase their community importance by forcing the wearing of masks. The purpose of a company is to provide a service or make/distribute a product. NOT to force its employees into some fake appearance of something those employees do not want to be a part of. This trend also applies to companies suddenly going WOKE.
As an investor, when they do that, I drop their stock...as, apparently do a majority of people, with few exceptions. I only discovered I owned JC Pennies when they went woke, so I looked. Sure enough, I had inherited shares. Sold! The same was true of Disney and Starbucks.
Next time you are in a business, look around for the virtue signaling signs telling you how they are keeping you safe by ordering their employees to wear masks. Try to write that one off your list as well. I consider this like my personal campaign to eliminate “Organic.” Next time you see a virtue signaling product labeled organic, substitute the word inorganic to see how ridiculous it is. Practically everything is “organic.” Originally, science believed in the spontaneous creation of life. Those substances that were thought to have this mysterious capability were labeled “organic.” Those that did not have the capacity to spontaneously generate life, stone, metal, glass, etc. were labeled “inorganic.”
Protest stupidity wherever you see it.