#Quiet quitting

[animentality]

[mostly-funnytwittertweets]

[toruandmidori]

[perrysoup]

This Isn't a Joke - Help Me Write my Resignation Letter and Make My Employers Life Hell! Update 3

We are sending the notice! It has a scheduled deliver time of 7:00 AM in the morning. I'll be confirming it sent and providing any updates as needed.

Remember these are our goals:

1) See if they will sign a contract without reading the ToS (like is done to us) 2) Be as audacious as possible so that it is spread throughout the company of the employer 3) See if they will dispute it and if so see if we can require "Reasonable Person" to be redefined and updated 4) See if we can can just make it annoying as hell for them 5) Have fun =D Tiktok communications here: https://www.tiktok.com/@perryvidja.ttv

[mostlysignssomeportents]

The real quiet quitting: Boomers nopeing out of the workforce

https://www.wsj.com/economy/jobs/labor-supply-economy-jobs-charts-3285a5b7

[kouhaiofcolor]

Dude you know what makes less and less sense to me the older i get? The basis of being charged for rent and utilities in this day and age when we spend less and less time actually at home doing anything fr. Like when you take into consideration how fucking burnt out we are on a regular basis (esp and particularly among adolescents and young adults), how do I even have a bill for utilities I’m never home to really use for any significant amount of time?

I’m being charged increasingly for streaming services i don’t have the energy outside of work to watch with any actual consistency or attention. Most of the time I turn the mf tv on for white noise — to scroll through social media on my damn phone 😂 bc the sound of the tv in the background gives me this illusion of control over how I’m spending my time “leisuring”, only bc it’s something i can use to convince myself that the shackles have been at least temporarily removed. They’re never removed though. Literally ever.

You spend $200 on 10 damn items at the grocery store now; groceries that don’t even last, at that. The essential-est essentials have prices straight out of apocalyptic hell. At the same time, this is the same damn country that decided no one has a technical right to food or sustenance — with the phenomena of food insecurity all over the damn nation. People can’t even truly afford to take care of their health being tethered to working “tirelessly”, and with health insurance having no seriousness here whatsoever.

I’m paying 1,000+ damn dollars a month for rent alone, working for shit wages that never really budge in any way that matters and that I can’t actually save shit with, bc I never really have any disposable income. It’s just a fucking nightmare. How are y’all doing this with children??? How are y’all doing this with dependents and pets and car payments and student loans and credit card debt on top of a never ending series of American obligations?? How are y’all not losing your very minds living like this every day??? The math doesn’t even add up. Logic doesn’t even apply.

There’s nothing logical or fair about any of this. It doesn’t even make systemic sense the way we’re charged damn near everything year-round to exist here. How are they incentivizing y’all to breed playing w our rights like this in our faces?? It’s worth it to y’all? I could grind my teeth to nothing trying to make the vaguest sense of it. I feel so utterly squeezed by and ensnared in bills 24/7/365. And like………… in a way…… it kinda doesn’t make declining birth rates seem so bad? This really might be for the best.

Tf we supposed to do, just work for other human beings all our lives? 8 billion of us?? What right do human beings have to demand such consistent energy from other human beings? 😂 Just to be a vessel by which others procure and sustain wealth via our underpaid and exhausted labor while we struggle to survive on meager resources? Doesn’t seem sustainable. Or realistic. Or humane. I’ve never wanted to be here less. I’ve never wanted to not be needed so badly in my entire life. I’m so fucking tired of being here.

[burntpink]

the proletariat urge to smash the boss's skull with a hammer

[gingertomcat]

Well linkedin, I think you'll find that's called "constructive dismissal" and it's really hard to prove in court but it is illegal

Stop repackaging terms that already have definitions into some quirky internet trend. Quiet quitting is just working to rule and it's a tactic used by union members all over

[kitschandretro]

And the next night she said: “Sack night off, dear!” Or that’s what it sounded like, anyway.

[authadia]

This morning, someone in my workplace's groupchat politely asked our boss if he could show up a bit later after the highways dried up, since the slippery highways caused by the unexpected rain last night made it harder for him to ride his motorcycle daily.

This seemed entirely normal and polite to me until I thought about it for a moment.

Why the hell is he asking for permission to come to work in a safer manner? Why does our boss have the implicit ability to say no?

It makes no fucking sense to me that anyone should ask for permission to be safe. If someone knows that doing something isn't safe, they are 100% within their right to refuse to do it. Right? That makes sense to me. But I guess it's not the standard, somehow?

The expected situation (at least, to me) that places value in both the worker's safety and the boss's time (which are equally important for some reason), should've gone like this:

Worker: Hey Mr. Boss, I'm going to have to come in later today because of the rainstorm last night. It's not safe for me to ride my motorcycle on wet road, so I have to wait until it dries.

Boss: Gotcha, thanks for letting me know.

An even more succinct way to state all this is just:

Worker: Hey Mr. Boss, I'll be coming in later today due to safety reasons.

Boss: 👍

That's all the information that the boss needs if the coworker is trustworthy. And so often if the worker doesn't capitulate to the control the boss is trying to exact over them, they're labelled as "untrustworthy". Once, before therapy/medication, I was labelled as a "high performance, low trust" worker, because my executive dysfunction (from ADHD) kept me from arriving on time.

That concept, that I was such a good worker but still not trustworthy was really confusing and hurting me up till now. These people, middle management, care WAY more about how much control they have over their workers than the actual job getting done. And if they don't have that control, they will do everything short of firing them to make their life at that job a living hell.

To truly be trustworthy and liked by them, you cannot value yourself. You have to sacrifice yourself, give up your individuality and submit to their control. And if you can't do that, you're low-trust. You're lazy. You're a quiet-quitter.

I for one, refuse to let them take my individuality. I will never be a high-trust worker, but I will always be myself. And I'm done apologizing for it.

[kgblagden]

The Slacker

"Ain't paid enough to care."

[zillanovikov]

I can't wait to tell management about my new workplace ethos, "Doing (Much) Less with Less"

[muffinlevelchicanery]

[360degreesasthecrowflies]

London is a city that has always been deeply uneven, with plenty of cultural treasures to hide the poverty in the Tower Blocks and the underpasses. London is effectively the main of the UK economy, and everything is geared towards it. Hence it retains a degree of economic dynamism that allows a degree of optimism, after all there's always a new restaurant, new exhibition, new flagship store, new play. Sure most workers are dirt poor, living on mashed avocado, and hoping the landlord gets visited by 3 Ghosts at Christmas, but there's the dream of making it in the big city.

Outside the London bubble, large parts of the country are either in despair, or have totally given up. Roads, bridges, hospitals, and schools are crumbling. Police have almost disappeared outside traffic stops. Courts are backlogged, prisons overfilled & well past their designed lifespan. Companies face significant trade barriers with the EU. The water industry is essentially operating on leveraged debt and mostly owned by oversea's pension funds, whilst the infrastructure collapses and raw sewage is being pumped into the rivers/seas. Everyone is underpaid compared to the cost of living, but also compared to many comparable roles in other countries.

In the shires, the more well paid commuter class can still have a nice life, but they are feeling a sharp pinch. Holidays cut. Cars held on to much, much longer than before. Meals out being reduced. Optional extras like music or sports for the kids cancelled. Impulse purchases stopped. All of which sounds like "oh poor Emma can't get her daughter Lucinda piano lessons boo hoo" but think about the economic impact. That is money that would have gone to a piano teacher (usually self employed), to the coffee shop whilst Emma waits, to a music shop for music, perhaps a CD or concert tickets to something Lucinda played at a lesson. Then when Lucinda grows up instead of having a career in arts or entertainment, even at her local bar or church, she doesn't know how to play piano. So society as a whole has lost a musician, and Lucinda as a person flourishes slightly less. The UK arts sector is one of our biggest economic powerhouses, yet it is routinely ignored and hammered by the govt. Art & music are regarded as luxury items, despite contributing £1.6 billion to the annual economy (2021 at 5.6%). That's huge, bigger than the fishing industry which contributes £1.4 billion (2021 at 4%). Yet with rents sky rocketing, and school budgets in utter crisis, arts/music get dropped and creative talent has to switch to more routine jobs to survive. UK Musicians are dropped from EU events following the botched visa system, and international work is increasingly harder for them to get.

Outside the diminishing middle class, the real difficulty and poverty of the UK hits home. People are not sure whether the next rent payment or electricity will quite literally bankrupt them and leave them homeless. Wages are mostly static, with few rises outside a number of key sectors. Some areas have seen wage growth, but that has been concentrated in a small number of jobs (especially finance/management). The population is aging, and the care system is left almost entirely to private companies in a very disjointed, expensive manner. For most people the only credible hope of a financially better life is to inherit or to win the lottery or to commit crime. This is strikingly similar to the pattern seen in many developing world economies.

For example, I have worked in the public sector for 20 years. In that time I have trained, gained professional qualifications, led larger teams, upskilled on IT/project management and become more productive. Since my pay has been capped at a 0.5% rise, it is a real terms wage cut. So I've become more productive yet I'm paid less. Why should I 1) carry on trying to be more productive, & 2) stay in the job? Productivity increases from workers have to be linked to a personal reward, as well as a benefit to an employer or there's no point for the employee. Hence "quiet quitting".

So the UK is in the dire position of poor infrastructure, rampant poverty, and a population that no longer believes hard work or being productive will improve their own lives, only maintain their survival. This is not a recipe for a flourishing economy or nation. The worst thing is that the UK has started to lose hope that things can get better without a magical solution. Without at least some hope, we are doomed.

Saved via reddit from user 'AgeOfVictoriaPodcast' - as an excellent (if depressing!) summary of the UK's economy and society in 2023 / the 2020s / post Brexit

[nando161mando]

But I wanted to be a Supreme Court justice