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Bed Rotting and Loud Quitting
If you didn’t want to look closely at your own organizational practices, if you felt uncomfortable about what younger works were agitating for, if you feared changed or anything that usurped your understanding of “how business is done” — Quiet Quitting was the easy answer.
from Bed Rotting and Loud Quitting by Anne Helen Petersen
Keely Adler added 4mo ago
“Quiet Quitting” articles allowed readers to access a convenient cause (damn lazy Gen-Zers) for a pretty existential problem (work sucks). It’s also, conveniently, a way of blaming workers for systemic ills. “Quiet Hiring” deflects from organizational norms that call for eking out as much productivity (at the lowest cost) from each employee in the
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Keely Adler added 4mo ago
I understand the cautions against leaning into depressive episodes. I also understand how many things that people label “indicators of depression” are also 1) forms of deep rest and 2) general resistance to the idea that every day should be filled with lists of things to do , places to be , productivity to exalt. And as Refinery29 writer Sabdhbh O’
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Keely Adler added 4mo ago
Which isn’t to say they don’t still work: most of them do. But they don’t necessarily take pleasure in making profits that disproportionately benefit people who are already rich. They’re not super psyched for another day of fucking up the planet in the name of defending big oil interests. They’re not pumped to break down their bodies for Jeff Bezos
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Keely Adler added 4mo ago
Sleep is fine (but it has to be “productive” deep sleep, no naps!!); self-care is fine (so long as it also involves buying things, resisting aging, etc. etc.); exercise is great (disciplining and regimenting the body). But truly doing nothing, not even birding, not even gentle walking, not even organizing , where’s the moral value in that?
from Bed Rotting and Loud Quitting by Anne Helen Petersen
Keely Adler added 4mo ago
“Quiet Quitting” started as a way for Gen-Zers to communicate with each other the reality that you can, in fact, not sublimate your entire identity and all of your time to a job and not get fired…..that you can just treat your job as a j-o-b, not as the sole determent of your value as a person…and that you can especially do this if your job treats
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Keely Adler added 4mo ago
But many younger workers — knowingly and unknowingly following in a long tradition of labor activism and more radical anti-work politics — are immersed in media (particularly on TikTok, but also on Reddit) that invites them to question the directive to “love” your job or even want to work.
from Bed Rotting and Loud Quitting by Anne Helen Petersen
Keely Adler added 4mo ago
The world thinks rest, recovery, and general refusal of work is gross. You can — and should — do it anyway. ●
from Bed Rotting and Loud Quitting by Anne Helen Petersen
Keely Adler added 4mo ago
That’s what “The Great Resignation” did in 2021: it gave a label to the feeling of take this job and shove it , I’m exhausted , even though we now know that the vast majority of people who actually did resign (and not just feel like resigning) were mothers who couldn’t find childcare, service workers finding better jobs, and older workers retiring.
from Bed Rotting and Loud Quitting by Anne Helen Petersen
Keely Adler added 4mo ago