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The Quiet Quitting Trend is just Corporate Propaganda
They are trying to scare us back to work
If you pay any attention to business news you will have seen a lot of ink (pixels?) wasted on the supposedly new trend of “Quiet Quitting”. This supposed trend is when employees dial back the amount of work they are doing for their employer and not giving 110% for their career and job.
Americans have a long history after World War II of sacrificing life and limb for their careers. This concept really took off in the 1980s with Baby Boomers hitting their peak earning years. “Greed, for the lack of a better word, is good”, crooned Gordan Gekko in the 1987 movie Wall Street. Since then it seems like Americans have been off to the races. How many people know someone that was a “corporate warrior”? Sacrificing family and friends just to get ahead. You see them racing through airports off to some meeting or another. I knew people that would fly from Seattle to Atlanta just to have a face to face meeting at an airport hotel meeting room for a couple of hours and then get back on a plane and fly back all in the same day.
We all know those people that sacrificed time with their spouse and families and kids to climb the corporate ladder. They played all the corporate games. They worked nights. They worked weekends. They got promoted. Meanwhile…
