Posted on 09/30/2022 9:14:49 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
China has a similar problem.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-lying-flat-took-chinas-overworked-millennials-by-storm
Their first priority should be to get themselves deprogrammed and take action to save their country and humanity.
It is a global phenomena. Lying flat, or “tangping” is the Chinese equaivalent.
Some call it “act your wage.”
I’ve earned enough to retire at 51. Not genZ age though.
But I will milk the way I take my money out to maximize gov’t handouts. I’ve paid in more in a year in taxes (some years) than most will ever pay in their lifetime. So I don’t care. The system needs to be broken to end this nonsense.
Quiet quitting = new lib double-speak term for ‘lazy’
Go to your job, and clock in so you get a paycheck, but don’t actually work.
You know what they say about Idle Hands.
I’m convinced a lot of this woke crap comes from bored people just making crap up to amuse themselves.
I would say that “Atlas Shrugged” shows what happens when (so to speak) Henry Ford, Steve Jobs, Elon Musk, Larry Ellison and Warren Buffett just decide to no longer make any contribution to society. In the novel, the big important people feel that society is milking them and not respecting them, so they quit.
But “Atlas Shrugged” was a novel, it told an engaging story, with a bit of philosophy. It wasn’t a handbook.
I think what we see isn’t so much Elon Musk losing his motivation, but a whole lot of worker bee types who longer believe that contributing to our society serves their own interests. They feel that society is milking them and not respecting them, so they don’t have any ambition or motivation.
Exactly! I’ve gone John Galt.
Im upper fifties and very recently landed a good job with a good company and Im very grateful for the opportunity. ☺
But in most cases, what we're seeing is younger people simply refusing to work jobs they believe are beneath them. It's why a lot of restaurants and retail establishments can't fine employees. My daughter shows me the videos -- younger people thinking it is outrageous that their manager actually expects them to come it to work, or refusing to give them time off if they are upset about something, etc.. It's...ridiculous. And the only way they get away with it is because someone else is paying their bills.
‘They’re not “Quiet Quitters”. That’s a derogatory term for someone who won’t let themselves be screwed.’
This started in the early to mid 1990’s, and many of our top corporations to stay in business or to have a steady income got into bed with the feds, states, local governments and fellow elites.
HR became the crown jewel in many corporations. They negotiated with their new customers and part of those negotiations was realignment of their sales forces and home offices to match the new racial/sexual job requirements where they wanted to do business.
The corporations often kept their top 10 % workers to keep their corporations afloat. The smart companies developed all types of rewards for that 10%.
The next 70-80% became a herd and a steady workforce, who could be fired without cause or notice if they were not minorities or the “Chosen Few!”
The rest were outed and left by the curbside.
When 2000 rolled around, these corporations often “early retired” or just laid off a large % of their work forces. Replacements were often hired due to their ethnic and sexual status, not based on abilities, education or skills.
Each year the above got worse and a few top dogs got the big rewards. Many became super rich and controlled their corporations at their level and via their fellow elites.
The smart and good workers often took early retirement or just did that on their own.
Many of those still employed are now or are becoming Quiet Quitters.
Now, the negative impacts of Covid Harassment continues at many levels with zero scientific basis.
You need a job to quiet quit. Quiet quitting is being hired to assemble 12 widgets a day, so you assemble 12 widgets a day instead of 13. You choose to do 12 instead of 13 knowing 13 will not make you more money, or prevent you from being laid off. However you dare not make 11 because that will have negative consequences and you do need a paycheck for your humble existence.
Expanding such trends into broad social movements is always risky business, as is drawing broad conclusions about any entire generation. There is this, though: demanding societal support while you find a perfect job that accords more to your imagination than reality can be a short slide into both socialism and despair. The best jobs I ever had (and I had some good ones) all came with rough edges - they'd have been boring if they didn't.
“...he would have gotten the talk about carrying his own weight starting at age 16 so he would have been well aware of what was expected of him...”
My Dad started the ‘18 and OUT!’ process when I was about 14, LOL!
I showed him; I was OUT by age 17. Never came back - until I had to take care of him in his old age.
Yes, I was nice about it; I was just ready to take on the world at age 17. I had good parents. :)
In my own circle, all of the kids are employed or in college. We don’t have any ‘slackers,’ mainly because they DO get the ‘18 and OUT!’ talk once they hit their teens.
This is such a problem of privilege. If I announced to my parents that I was “quiet quitting” in my 20s, they would have vocally kicked my lazy ass out the door.
That may all be true, but I don’t know how it relates to “quiet quitting.” Bad managers aren’t a new thing. What IS a recent phenomenon is the collapse of trust and confidence among employees, business leaders and government officials in each other in this post-COVID world.
“Bad managers aren’t a new thing.”
True.
What is different today is bad managers are easier to notice—and their failures have bigger multiplier effects.
Example:
Bad managers will order everyone to work in the office post Covid and then wonder why they have both quiet quitters and real quitters.
“Quiet quitting” doesn’t mean you quit; it means you do the job exactly within the specified parameters, and don’t go the extra mile or minute. When you see how many employers treat workers today, you’d understand.
My teens working minimum wage jobs describe how managers expect them to find their replacements/someone to cover their shift if taking a day off. Sorry, that’s a manager’s job. One got reprimanded because one had the person covering his shift not show up; the owner was in the group text where the co-worker said they’d cover, and still blamed my son.
One of my sons has had six jobs since January; I suspect it will be seven soon (that’s real “quitting”, not “quiet quitting”).
“Going the extra mile” and taking on more responsibility is exactly how one escapes the monotony of minimum wage and low paying jobs.
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