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glindarayepix's avatar

My issue with the notion of quiet quitting is that it is so hierarchical--one's happiness is entirely dependent on someone else's (a boss's) actions. But for every good boss, there are a dozen bad ones, and for every good job, there are a gazillion bad ones. So your alternatives are to work the bad one and watch for the good ones to come along, to quit and leave the workforce altogether (my solution), or to take over the organization from your lowly spot by sheer force of personality (my wife's solution). The idea of simply lowering your head and quiet quitting, of committing yourself to a worklife of endless, dull misery, isn't sustainable. So I never waited to get quiet fired--it was much easier to just piss them off enough that they loud-fired me (with compensation of course). No one should tolerate a bad boss. In fact, there should be a law against it.

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Karla Boza's avatar

Thank you for explaining what "quiet firing" is. Even though I've experienced it, I never knew it had a name! I've always felt conflicted about hustle culture and you put everything so nicely into words. Thank you, Ashley!

Btw, would love a segment on your pasta knowledge! It looks like such a nice (and delicious) way to focus on the present :)

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