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When, finally, that [[black swan]]-fluttering, long tail-wagging, epochal event of systematic disruption is visited upon you; when, at last, the diamanté-encrusted citadel to which you lucky others daily bend your joyful steps is struck down and rendered a crippled, toxic ghost-town inside a three-mile exclusion zone — when, finally, your tired, your poor, your huddled masses, the wretched refuse of your [[middle management]] layer, yearning to freely populate their [[deck]]s — are  obliged trudge like obedient beasts and fowls through the teeming deluge, two-by-two, towards your magnificent hill-top ark ''where you have been waiting an eternity to give them succour'' — when that day finally comes, it turns out they ''can’t'' come to your draughty warehouse, even if they wanted to, but — ''worse!'' — they ''don’t'' want to. They seem to be getting along just fine logging in from a laptop in the spare room and they aren’t even missing the business continuity warehouse facility you so lovingly curate for them!

Business continuity management: the one team whose prognosis worsened as the pandemic played out, at the same time everyone else’s improved: a cautionary tale against providing in advance for contingencies you cannot hope to anticipate.