Let me see if I get this right — there is such an epidemic of mental health problems in the workplace that organizations (presumably for-profit, non-profit, government, etc.) need in-house shrinks and social workers.
News sources already report a shortage of health care workers (nurses, etc.). If there is such demand for mental health professionals, it can’t be long before every company has them on staff — thus creating a demand for education and training of qualified individuals to fill these posts.
With tongue planted firmly in cheek, might one suggest that the DEI staff could be re-trained and re-purposed to serve this function? Oh, wait a minute: if the oppressor-victim dynamic is brought into play, then all the troubled employees will just blame their anxieties on childhood trauma or being “mispronouned” (sic) or just misunderstood. For those persistent “cases,” will they go directly from employment to disability status?
Where is this leading? 🤔
Will airline passengers be offered free counseling to deal with their trauma and anxiety over intrusive TSA practices? Or cockpit crews with psychiatric disabilities? Or planes that fall down or blow out after-market doors?
Just pick any product or service, and extrapolate the frustrations and fears arising out of things that don’t work.
If Molière Citations didn’t have this therapeutic outlet for all the ludicrous news items we see, we might just go apoplectic — but nobody wants that.
So we’ll just hitch up our trousers and deal with it.
And we hope our readers will, too!
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