What would you do if all your trainees went on strike?

Gross misconduct right?

Not unionised or anything obv.

Asking for an enemy of old.

It would probably speed most things up.

I mean someone would have to leave me some written instructions about how to turn the computer thingy on, but once that is done we’re golden.

Entice them back via a hilarious music video app, offering unlimited protein shakes for a month and an alcohol-free team night out making vegan cupcakes, in aid of climate change.

Fvcking hell, yes, we had someone giving the whole ‘side hustle’ thing here as well in a speech to the younglings.

Whether he ignored deliberately that his side hustle cost him a 6 figure sum to acquire and is run by other people, I don’t know.

I was about to say, it's at the very least a weird thing for an employer to encourage. I have always had one but it's always been like my employer was doing me a favour to let me.

Maybe that is the point - it makes you seem all funky by encouraging it, safe in the knowledge that it actually makes it easier to whack man underling who falls for it.