Why quiet quitting is neither quiet nor quitting and why it’s nothing new.
Quiet quitting is getting a lot of play these days everywhere from LinkedIn to The New York Times.
Here’s what it’s NOT:
You’ve finally had enough, you can’t take it anymore, and in a rage, you storm into your boss’s office and very quietly, you whisper, “Shhhhhhhh, I quit.”
Here’s what it IS:
Apathy.
You’re tired of going above and beyond all the time so you decide to just do your job, coast a bit, but no more hustle, hustle, hustle.
This means, when you see a job posting saying a company is looking for the next marketing rock star, or auditor rock star, or sales rep rock star, lots of people are gonna say, “Meh.” It’s just a euphemism for “we’re looking for someone we want to work to death.”
And on a side note, when did we as a society think a rock star was a good comparison to a great, hard worker?
Come on people, use your heads.
