They were SO CLOSE to not being arseholes. SO CLOSE.

You know there's good news on the horizon when your manager says that if there's a walkout, they're in.

By which I mean Management's Management have decided that we need to reopen spaces for more students. Management have spent this week stonewalling them, refusing, and having very angry meetings with all of the higher levels of library management, aaaaaaaaaand they lost. We're opening up capacity for another 87 students, raising our total to 263. Their argument is that there's demand, and this is still a tiny fraction of how many spaces we COULD open – our max capacity before the quarantimes was was 1616. Our argument is that they told us they were dropping the capacity for the sake of staff comfort and anxiety levels, and that was clearly a right fucking lie! 

Management's Management sent an email that contained the line "I recognise than an increase in study spaces may cause some anxiety, and I would like to reassure you that the health and safety measures that we have in place do enable us to work safely" and just. YOU WORK FROM HOME. YOUR OPINION IS MEANINGLESS.

... I wonder what happens if we just say no.