quiet-quitting is even better than you think

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SOURCES/RESSOURCES 📚
Eve Livingston, Make Bosses Pay, Pluto, 2021.

Other sources are found throughout the video

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SOCIALS 👩‍💻
Storygraph: @alicecappelle

[Tashax]

It's crazy to me that we live in a world where just doing your job without going above and beyond is seen as equivalent to quitting.

[PokhrajRoy.]

The fact that it took a life-threatening pandemic to tell us how shockingly toxic workplaces are is disturbing. We should’ve figured out better work environments by now.

[moosesandmeese]

I'm with the Chinese youth on this one: "Let it rot." The owners of my company are off partying in their McMansion, going on vacation every 2 months, etc, and yet while I'm slaving away making them that money, even bringing in record profits, I still get paid the exact same as before, which is already pathetically low. I hope it rots

[solarmoth]

I saw an article on “quiet-firing” which unlike how quiet quitting is simply establishing boundaries, Quiet-firing is being passive aggressive and acting hostile in a way that actively violates US labor laws. It’s so interesting how simply doing only the work you are paid for is being met with active hostility.

[andreang]

I actually love the fact that people are letting companies know that they have a life outside work and that the company doesn’t own the workers. We needed a change.

[elinope]

Laziness is the mother of innovation. Intelligent lazy people invent new easier ways to do things so that they don't have to work so hard. "Work smarter, not harder" is a direct encouragement of laziness.

Laziness is a virtue, but it's hard to see it that way with the way some people talk about it.

[craig]

I'm reminded of that one story: a guy leaves his office and sees his boss getting into a luxury car. The guy says "Wow, I wish I could afford a car like that." The boss says "Well, if you work really hard, put in extra hours, and make sacrifices, then next year I can buy another one."

[roxyskittens]

My friend in the Netherlands works for a multinational company. She ended up working all day, sometimes even until 2 in the morning the following day, WITHOUT getting paid for the overtime. The company refused to hire another person and then she got very sick because of burnout. In the first weeks her boss yelled at her to get back to work and then she went to a doctor hired by the company, who confirmed her diagnosis. After that, they had to give her medical leave with a full salary. She's been on medical leave for 6 months now, her health got better and when she goes back to work they have to let her work part time for a few months. She'll never endanger her health for a company again.

[yohaizilber]

Company: “Can you work more and get paid less?”
Me: “No.”
Company: “Lazy Quiet Quitter!!”

[spacemanrob]

I have a pretty laid back job, but full-time work is still exhausting. There's not enough time to keep a hobby, hang out with friends/family, relationships, cooking dinner, working on your artistic potential or even just time alone. No amount of time management will really make you feel fulfilled with your life. Same thing with wages - you can't budget your way out of poverty. We need a living wage. I'm glad labor unions are being rediscovered - especially here in the US. For decades there's been such a toxic mindset toward work and human dignity (i.e. "if you don't like it, get another job", "quit buying avocado toast", hustle culture, media calling people lazy or entitled, etc.) Seeing as how government has done fuck all for working class people, it's great to see workers finally standing up for better conditions again 😎

[lilypond]

As a Chinese person I didn't know 躺平（tangpin）was pupularised oustide China.
I think a better word for describing what you promote is 反内卷（fan nei juan), which is also a popular internet term now, because "tang ping" has a more "do nothing" meaning and "fan nei juan" means rejecting or going against unnecessary competition, often employers make employees compete to make them do more work to "win" than they rightfully should.
Chinese people fall into this trap easily because we're brought up to over achieve and chase excellence, it's so natural to have that mindset of studying when going into the workplace bot realizing it's different

[muserulesxd]

It's not lazy. Having downtime is a necessity for anyone to properly function. It's being proactive about your personal needs and mental health. "Laziness" and "quiet quitting" hold negative connotations. We simply act our wage.

[haleysnote]

Just earlier this year I left a job where I felt overworked and disrespected at. It was a nice little office job at a hospital. In the beginning, I was so excited to find somewhere that was career based and willing to take me in without a degree. As I went forward I had all these ideas and ambitions to improve my efficiency and help the very overworked nurses. Eventually, I found out the hard way no one could care less about improving the office or nursing workloads. The more I pushed for better the more hate and lowkey bullying I faced. Even standing up for myself in the face of being bullied was seen as a fault on my end. 
So, just before my first year anniversary with the company was celebrated, I quit.
My ambitions, motivations, love for learning, etc. All were broken down until I became a yes ma'am office employee. Honestly, the experience at the end felt dehumanizing. 
And sadly had I known about 'quiet quitting' and had used that then, I don't think it would have changed a thing.

[rhosymedra]

Not all of us spent lockdown relaxing while working at home and reflecting - I had to work all day every day in person, risking catching covid from people who refused to mask and vaccinate. I get kind of salty when people paint lockdown as if it were a break or mini vacation because it was not like that at all for me. I had to work twice as hard and in more dangerous conditions.

[TalLikesThat]

I was a barista before the pandemic. the coffee stand where I worked closed down for the pandemic and never opened again. I never succeeded to hold on to a job (all in the service industry) for more than three months or so. I just can't stop feeling like I'm being used by richer people than me. also, my depression reared its head in the pandemic (I'm not the only one, I know). Add to it low minimum pay and the depressing situation of the climate and politics, (I'm from Israel, It's an absolute sh!tshow), It's really hard to care about service jobs and many other overwork demanding jobs.

[PokhrajRoy.]

I remember listening to a lot of ‘French people don’t work and get paid vacations’. I didn’t know what to make of it but in a way, I liked that there were very clear boundaries.

As a Bengali, we get a lot of ‘all of you are lazy and sleeping all the time’ and I see the toxic work culture around me and it’s just awful. People are self-loathing and think it’s cool to work on vacation.

In Iceland basically every worker is a union member. Every once in a few years there are negotiations between unions, employers and government regarding wages, work times etc. It’s always a very turbulent period.

[catladyy]

i’ve been fired yesterday morning. this video came in gooood time. sending you my love 💛

[amelbenaissa]

Sadly enough, quiet-quitting as a form of protest is not really possible in some developing countries because workers are really replaceable. Poverty and inflation make it so that employees have no choice but to settle for less than what they deserve. I believe that unions that can put pressure on policymakers can be more effective in these countries.

[SillyBunny]

I work in a grocery store and the amount of old people who come through and go "thank you for working. Nobody wants to work anymore!"

I just kinda stare at them when they say that