Back to the Gold Standard of COVID Times - Longshoremen Strike

With good reason the longshoremen are fearful of automation and much more. You bet, I support their strike. My grandfather and two uncles from Poland had put together an okay living hauling crates from ships on the Jersey City, NJ docks. 

But also I anticipate during the work stoppage, just as with COVID, not having access to, never mind, lux items like exotic fruit, but also necessities. 

Consumers are being warned to "stock up." And what's being stocked up is what becomes gold in times of scarcity.

At the top of the list are papers products. Yes, go to your dollar store and clean it out. 

Soon enough there will be no more of them on the shelves. 

Immediately there should be an Ah-Ha moment among business leaders and managers. As a motivational gesture they can dispense those paper products to employees.

Here is a classic opportunity. Too long ago, it seems, Milbank law firm awarded an off-season bonus to associates. At other law firms initially there was euphoria, expecting their own firms would match or exceed the Milbank numbers. That didn't happen. By now the mood has mutated into resentment. 

There's a way out of that negative force field.

On RTO days (let's pray Big Law remains essentially hybrid) the non-Milbank law firms such as Kirkland & Ellis, Latham, Paul Weiss, Skadden and more can place on desks the 2024 version of bling: bags full of paper towels and toilet paper. 

At the very least could be created a lightness of being. There is enough paper whatever for another day on the mean streets of New York City. However, there could even be a blossoming of old-fashioned loyalty to the firm. During crisis unity is a beautiful thing.

Should the strike last into the holidays, the managing directors can dress up like Santa ... 

UPDATE:

The longshoremen's strike has been suspended, for now. Workers resume moving cargo. Here's the details from the New York Post. Fortunately the paper goods we stocked up don't go bad. 

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