The Great Resignation | Cold Gun

The Great Resignation

What a time to be alive. What a time to have an awakening. What a time to disrupt an industry. A trio of three things that have aligned for many people since the hit of COVID-19. What was certainly a nightmare scenario, has since caused people around the country to question what they are really doing with their lives. 

In August 2021, the U.S. saw some of the highest resignation rates at over 4 million people. While a little over 1 million of that group was let go by the employer, it still is a significant number of unemployed Americans who have said enough is enough. Being dubbed The Great Resignation, the American workforce is rethinking what it truly wants out of a career from paying people what they're actually worth, to working hours & flexibility of remote options, to balancing personal life and the need to shut off work when one clocks out. 

With labor shortages and supply chain woes, it’s safe to say many industries are prime for disruption in how they treat and take care of their employees.

Cold Gun

Just recently, there was a fatality on the movie set, “Rust”, starring actor Alec Baldwin. During a shooting scene, Alec was given a firearm by the Assistant Director. As the firearm was handed to him, someone yelled out the code word: Cold Gun. That is the que to let everyone know that it’s okay to shoot a firearm because it’s not loaded with real rounds and is safe to use. 

Unfortunately, we are all now mourning the loss of Halyna Hutchins due to the negligence of others. Another crew member, Joel Souza was also injured on the set, but he is currently recovering.

Many of us around the world are trying to understand what happened and why there weren't better protocols in place to prevent such a tragic event. The last time a fatality like this occurred on a movie set was 28 years ago, with the late actor, Brandon Lee. It was the year 1993, when Lee was filming the movie, “The Crow”, when he was hit by a dummy bullet while performing a scene involving a gun. 

These types of events will hopefully change the trajectory for making movies and implementing better safety measures and controls while working on production sets. 

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