Intro

Currently the whole world is in panic over COVID-19 and with good reason. Companies are shutting down. People are working from home. People are stockpiling food, toilet paper and Purell. Although I think the latter is unnecessary and just people freaking out YOU need to be the guy that’s not freaking out. You need to be the leader in whatever situation you might find your self in. Prepare for the worst with out invoking fear of those around you. You need to be the rock in the face of chaos. You need to be the one confident in making decisions. You need to maintain frame and calmness in front of your friends, family, plates, LTR, and everyone else around you.

Situational Awareness & Making Decisions

Take inventory of your surroundings and what is going on. Your average person is panicking and has no idea what to do. Your job may have no idea how to handle this. You need to be using sound judgment while maintaining emotional control.

For example the CEO of my company as of yesterday evening is mandating people come into the office that houses 700 people and is open to the public and resides in NYC. They are presenting a major risk to the people that work here while 90% of peoples jobs here can be done remote. We have people coming in from areas that are quarantined because they are in fear of losing there job (your average person is too stupid to make the right decision here). People are freaking out and being morbid in the office. Not doing any work just bitching and fear mongering about getting infected and asking people why are we here.

Your job doesn't know what's best for you. It’s a hard thing to walk away from your job but its stupid to listen to company who cant see that most major organizations have started WFH/remote work or putting it in place. This company is flat out telling people to come in even though we have the technology to have everyone work remote and still do business. In times like this is where being a leader and exercising those Machiavellian skills you learned here come into play.

I wrote an email this morning saying I'm sick and am quarantining my self. End of story. If they want to fire me so be it I will find a job in the next few weeks.

It’s a risky decision but I know what's best for me and my family. I know I can get a job else where.

Being a leader involves making risky decisions. You know what's best. Do it.

Bad leaders get people killed.

Update: My company had to change their tone based on local government. They remained opened until the 9th. They emailed us on 3/19 and notified us several people were infected during the the time they insisted we come into the office after saying for a week no one in the company was infected. Most of the infected people were on my floor that I work on which is overcrowded with people.

This only validates my actions.

Be a leader.