In this thread: people who only read the headline.

Guys, cities in BC always could do this. That’s why at far-eastern BC they followed Mountain Time in some way or another. That’s it. And in fact, they’re looking into standardizing with the rest of BC, which if you had read the article you’d see.

It’s basically group malicious compliance as job action. The employees find all the workplace rules that are on paper that no one actually fully follows (“drivers must check oil level before heading on a delivery”) and then doing each and every one to its most obnoxious version (so a driver takes time to check the oil level between every delivery, even though they checked the oil already at the start of the day). As a result productivity suffers, and pressure is on management to concede something.

Worth noting that in BC the pharmacist can also write the prescription, so a doctor’s appointment isn’t strictly required.

I’m going to be more sympathetic for the developers which is that they likely spent a ton of money for the land already when prices were high and after expensive building costs they’re struggling to not lose money.