Consultative Vibes

A store’s and manufacturer’s responsibilities in times like these are crucial. Companies need to have fail safes in place to ensure they are an essential part of rebuilding the economy in a downfall. Companies have an option to branch out and do something that they were not originally built to do. An example like a local brewery stopping production of their beer, and started making sanitizer to donate and/or have for purchasing. This is a perfect example of keeping your company involved in the community and stepping up to the plate, when many others would not, in a desperate time of need. Making your company an asset to the community and the world is important to the long term success of your company. Many companies can learn greatly form this current situation of the pandemic, and be able to reach out and help, as well as make better organized decisions.

A lot has gone on in the world, and it gets crazier and crazier. People are hoarding and hurting each other for selfish reasons. The greed has hurt many people that actually needed some of the things that have been overbought. If we only bought what we needed, we would not be in the predicament that we are now. Things would run a bit smoother for sure if everyone lived as if it were the same before the pandemic. It is nice to see companies who care and are seeking to retain their employees. CEO for Landry’s had furloughed all of his employees so that they could have a chance to start unemployment sooner than later. In doing so he also seeked to retain his employees when things started getting back to normal. This is one great way to show you care for your employees and are there to help them in a time of need.

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(Zack of All Trades Consulting)

There is a large issue with job loss, and the increasing amount of people filing for unemployment. There is also a massive increase in refinancing on multiple levels, mortgage, loans, car payments, credit cards etc.. All of these things are a contributing factor to the downfall of the economy. Like I continue to reiterate, if we were to stop the panic, calm down, and live as we were this could improve greatly. There should have been no reason for job loss, and companies should have prepared for the worst, and upon making profits, set an allotted amount aside that was expendable with insurances in place to cover any unexpected tragedies that may occur. That money would be for the workers that are forced to go home and stay there due to unexpected disasters. Essentially a disaster relief fund that all business should have in place and should immediately be funding in order to stay afloat in hard times and making sure to retain your employees so that when things recover, you can transition back to the way things were smoothly, rather than having to spend more money rehiring and training new employees with background checks and drug screenings. The company is already incurring a loss, and not retaining employees is adding to said loss of profit a lot faster.

After this pandemic hopefully blows over, I sure hope that everyone learned a bit more about themselves and how they react to the situation. There were a lot of mistakes made that could have been avoided had there been fail safes in place. Also, the monitoring and control to keep the media from spreading worldwide panic needed to happen. I do feel more could have been done to control the mass panic over something that is just essentially another version of the flu. The flu mutates every year and evolves in its structural behavior to keep going. All we can do is live our lives as normal. Take our normal precautions with trying to stay healthy and boosting your immune system in the flu season. Also, practicing your normal everyday hygiene helps keep the spread of germs down. All you have to do is remain as if life was still the same a few months ago.

Whatever happened to helping your fellow man? I feel as Americans we are failing to address the fact that we are not helping each other as we should be. Most of the time I have observed greed and selfishness. Why is that? If you were to be on the opposite receiving end, someone being selfish to you in a manner, would your outlook be different? If we were to only get what we needed to get us through the week, and do our normal shopping, there would be no shortage on anything, except for the fact that at the time, they had not come up with a good test to detect the virus. The shortage of the tests should have been the only thing that should have we should have been lacking. I have seen families with newborns not be able to get formula, diapers and wipes. Why? Because of panic and greed. No grown adult should need supplies that are for babies when they do not have one because they are scared they won’t have toilet paper? This is why in the first place, there should have been secret monitoring that came down to large corporations to keep an eye on it and set limits before the public was made aware of a massive problem.

In the times we are are having, struggling to stay afloat in this world has become rather difficult. Many businesses have seen high losses due to the virus, and the decisions made by our government. Many business owners have sought bankruptcy, and will never recover from these events. Not many businesses have the resources available to them, or the money for that matter to be able to sustain until this blows over. There are many things in place that are keeping certain businesses up and running. Why do we now start using these strategies? Why did it have to come to a pandemic to realize what true potential was available to companies to be able to cover all fronts digitally? This should have been happening all along, that way there would not have been such a massive fall economically. Also, if we were to manage our inventory and strategies with worst case scenarios in mind, do you feel that the downfall could have been prevented?

Help your fellow man and give to the ones in need today. This virus will soon blow over and we can start to rebuild. We cannot get discouraged and scared. Instead we must come together and rebuild what this minor setback has caused for the economy. Don't become the problem, help try to fix it. This is the only way any of us can recover in this time of and economic crisis.

In this time of crisis my heart goes out to all of the families struggling to do their everyday shopping for their families and are unable to do so do to hoarding and mass hysteria. The families that can't get wipes, diapers and formula are in the most need or for the elderly and immunocompromised people. This crisis has to  slow down and people need to be helping others instead of thinking selfishly. This is what America is about, is about helping your fellow man, woman and child. Please help a family in actual need of supplies if you just so happen have extra.

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