One more moan, then I'll be positive again...

One day of bad weather after a long spell of early-onset Summer and my mood dropped like a dead fish and yesterday’s blog became a moan-fest!

Well – be warned. It’s been even duller today, and my Suffolk surroundings have been full of that annoying drizzle that leads to an atmosphere of pissy shitness and shitty pissness, so this will be a moany one again.

I don’t understand all these terrible financial forecasts that are filling the news bulletins, now they haven’t got lockdown deaths to report on. I understand that things will be tough and businesses will suffer, but why is it being treated like there’s no reason behind it? Half the world has been in hiding, so of course spending has been altered, right?

This week, there was onscreen panic about the fact that France will see a 10% economic shrink this year. Well, they should, shouldn’t they? No-ones been doing anything for 3 months, of course there’ll be consequences. But it only looks bad if you compare it to previous years business figures. If you take it as a year like any other, of course it’ll look shit. But this has been exceptional. Can’t every company agree that 2020 doesn’t really count, or should have a big asterisk next to it, and then go on and see what the next 12 months bring? No – I guess not. Because that’s not how our stupid economic systems work. Shareholders are only happy with an annual increase and a drop in profits is counted as a loss.

Well – tough shit, everyone. It ain’t happening this year, so deal with it. And we can deal with it, can’t we? We don’t have to go charging back into our same-old shitty way of living just to keep the profit wheels spinning, do we? Haven’t we learned that there are more important things to concentrate on?

Maybe not. But then I’m not an economist, so what do I know? All I know is that the company I work for, who saw their income soar in the early days of coronavirus when people were buying enough food to fill three houses, are now warning us there may be staff cuts as a result of any economic downturn. Employees who put in extra effort this Spring may be out of a job by Autumn.

Classy. Real classy.

RC 5-6-20