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.
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 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.
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.
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.
Wasn’t John Galt a quiet quitter???
Is there any proof this is really happening?
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.
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.
Im upper fifties and very recently landed a good job with a good company and Im very grateful for the opportunity. ☺
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.