Posted on 09/30/2022 9:14:49 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
The world still overflows with opportunities however we are lacking committed takers. Those who are willing to explore the opportunities as opposed to wait for them to show up at the door. It seems like, for the new generation, working hard has turned into the enemy of dreams and a roadblock to life’s journey.
The anti-work phenomenon, quiet quitting, is encouraging people to withdraw privately and silently. It is an utterly un-American act that will create an avalanche of self-destruction at a critical time for our nation. It is a movement that cannot be stopped by force but may ultimately be an awakening that could lead to the rejuvenation of the nation.
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The “quiet quitters” are mostly sponging off other people who still work. Maybe some of them have earned enough in their lifetime to retire early, but I suspect they’re far from the majority.
Is quiet quitting just atlas shrugging in real life?
So is TickTock but this younger generation is warped daddy-o.
They’re not “Quiet Quitters”. That’s a derogatory term for someone who won’t let themselves be screwed.
The folks who quit in Atlas were the talented ones. Don’t think that applies here.
Imagine not being jaded these days when .gov and business wants to force you to get the jab. Not only that, but shut down the country, even though you're the healthiest demographic.
I wonder how many white males just got sick of being called racist while carrying the load....
I see a lot of discussion on this which, in my opinion, is pretty shallow.
On the one hand, if certain people are lazy, don’t want to work, and just expect a paycheck from society while doing nothing, then they really are the Bad Guys. If that is what Quiet Quitting is, then society needs to find a way to give those people a kick, cut off their resources, and give them a real incentive to get back to work.
But on the other hand, I do think the work place has changed. A lot of people at the management level have not been trained in anything other than bean counting. They cannot manage people. They cannot manage anything. They cannot lead. They bully people until they get their way. That’s what they consider “team work”. And HR is a big part of that problem. It’s a bit “woke”. I think that work became a lot more unpleasant in the last few years. And the pensions went away, the cost of living raises went away. The motivation went away. Company loyalty went away. Even people with “careers” now feel that they have “jobs” and they hate their job.
The third hand, would people people who think “the guy who signs your pay check is always right”. Just do what the boss tells you. Suck it up. If you work hard, you can succeed.
The basic problem, as I see it, is that a lot of people no longer think that third hand should be listened to. Because the governing institutions of our society are just lying to us. The people on top? I don’t respect them, I think they are milking the system. And the Quiet Quitting? That’s people on the bottom milking the system.
We are the Soviet Union.
QQ is a feature encouraged by our government rulers. Young people see no hope for themselves to achieve the American dream. But it’s misguided.
Quiet quitting isn’t going on the dole entirely though, as I understand it. These are people who have jobs but they choose do their jobs poorly. They are just slackers who do the minimum, happy to let others pull most of the weight.
It’s essentially a negative term for someone who realizes there is no longer an incentive to out perform. Vertical movement is dead by traditional metrics and pink slips get handed out at the end of every graduating semester.
One of the most destructive impacts of the COVID fiasco is that it has permanently damaged the three-way relationship between workers, businesses, and government. The damage this has done to self-motivation and personal ambition is never going to be fixed.
Lecturing people will never get people to work harder.
Incentives are the best way to do that—and that is a management issue—identify the incentives that work best for individual employees.
For some employees it may be money, for others a hope for promotion, others want a fancy office, others a fancy title, others want social validation (awards), others want to be left alone and given a lot of “running room” etc. Everyone is different.
Good managers know how to handle the complexity—bad managers have no clue.
New term for slackers. They’ve always been around.
Sadly I have an extended family member that fits into the quiet quitting category.
He’s smart but overweight for a 20 yo. He is blessed with a great low baritone voice he could use over the phone. Was a Valedictorian in his high school senior year and even got a free ride to a nearby well known college then flunked out. He has done nothing since.
He refuses to work or go to school while his mother and granddad carry the financial load. I am not impressed with his laziness or withdrawal from society as a functioning member who does what he can because he does nothing.
No one in the family has the intestinal fortitude to be the ‘tough love’ bringer. If he were my son 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 if he were to live in his daddy’s house if he were not going to K-C at the time. He would be expected to work at least part time in his off-school months.
Most of us here on FR are from a generation when quitting the world was really not an option if we wanted a roof and 3 squares. I’m leaving suicide out of this equation because that’s an entirely different path of stupid.
In a very real way these young work-capable people are being institutionalized by their enabler parents or providers in much the same way a long term prisoner loses the ability to function in society. The longer this is allowed to continue the least likely the young person can ever become a productive member of society and have the self-esteem to be someone we can all be proud of.
One version I have heard is those who do the work they are paid to do, but don’t go beyond that.
Definitely a big part of the problem for many.
Wasn’t John Galt a quiet quitter???
Is there any proof this is really happening?
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