By my estimation, half of white collar jobs are like this and everyone just engages in theater about how busy they are
This is common in a lot of blue collar manufacturing jobs I’ve had too. Gotta milk the work and get it done as close to the expectation as possible or else you’re rewarded with more work and higher expectations.
Always been a huge point of frustration for me since I like to get a good pace going and stay busy since it makes the shift go by faster, but then I have to arbitrarily slow down to keep from giving the boss man the wrong idea.
I was under the impression that “war with China” was at the top of the plans for over a decade now. I definitely remember seeing stuff like this years ago, and all that’s changed is the US is even more reliant on Chinese imports.
Is a war-time economy still good if your manufacturing sector can’t get 2/3rds of its raw materials?