There is a “woke” belief that once our post-COVID nation completely reopens, the unprecedented opportunity will exist to reinvent the workplace. The argument? The modern work-office environment we have today was created after World War II, by men for men, while the wife handles the duties at home. The “woke” obviously never met my grandmother. My Grandmother Grace worked at the General Electric Company in Asheboro, North Carolina, for 30 years. As a side hustle, she fell back on her sewing skills and altered wedding dresses and formals. She had always longed to become a nurse, so at retirement and as a senior citizen, she enrolled in nursing school. She spent her last years on the “floor” of a hospital serving others in their hour of need. She raised four beautiful daughters, of which one was my lovely mother. That Grandmother Grace was born in 1913, that she survived the …