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Jesus H, We’re Still Discussing Quiet Quitting?
The business journalism crew has literally nothing of true relevance to add to almost any discussion.
We’ve now been discussing “quiet quitting” for six months; the discussion could have been over in perhaps six minutes. It’s not some political flashpoint or some indictment of the younger generation “not wanting to work anymore,” or a representative discussion about the inherent decline of American ambition. It’s really pretty simple: a company says you will get paid X-amount for Y-tasks. Managers then try to go, to borrow from algebra, Y+22 — but they want X-amount of salary to stay the same. In the various reckonings about work over the past decade via TikTok and COVID and cost of living, a lot of people just said: “No, X-Salary is Y-Tasks. I stop at Y-Tasks, as a result. If you want to train me more, advance me, promote me, etc… I will do more.” It’s actually pretty reasonable.
But of course, business journalism has nothing to write about or say unless Elon tweets something or there’s a new tech company…
