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Quiet quitting and the great resignation have a common cause – dissatisfied workers feel they can't speak up

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By James Detert

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Most recently, you’ve probably heard about “quiet quitting,” an often-misunderstood phrase that can mean either doing your job’s bare minimum or just not striving to overachieve.

Late Stage Capitalism has been successful at busting unions, suppressing wages and making work more precarious.

But minimum wages demand minimum work and workers are rational economic calculators.

Most will work very hard to perform well and keep a job they are well-rewarded for,but overcompensated HR admin would rather have churn and turnover of interchangeable units where they can utilize their often random selection criteria.

The "slackers" with high salaries are often at the top of the corporate food chain.

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Decades ago I wrote an article about how a decreased number of children will mean more "pie" and a lesser chance to be exploited. The pandemic is something else, something more horrid and yet liberating for the survivors. What we are see now is analogous to plague of past centuries. The shortage workers saw the beginning of labor unions. We are seeing history repeat itself.

Horrific and heart breaking it all is. (We all lost someone, or knew someone who lost someone.) But the reality is that a new force of liberation is sweeping the U.S. the most exploited workforce in the advanced industrialized world.

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Paraphrasing but “If you don’t like your job, you don’t quit. You just go in everyday and do a really half-assed job. It’s the American way!” - Homer Simpson

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“quiet quitting” is not a recent trend.

I did that for over 40 years.

I did not want a Managerial position and just become a paper pusher.

I am a creative person and wants to be involved hands on in creating and developing things. I was a consultant most of my life and made sure that I was not the highest paid and no one will notice me.

I kept a low profile and even in team meetings, made sure I did not ask telling questions.

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don’t like your job or the environment? Quit.

That was me twenty years ago. Not such an easy thing to do when you are older, married with kids and have a mortgage and obtw have to explain to the next hopeful potential employer why you quit your last job. Once you reach that point in your life you don't change jobs casually.

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I did not want a Managerial position and just become a paper pusher.

I am a creative person and wants to be involved hands on in creating and developing things. I was a consultant most of my life and made sure that I was not the highest paid and no one will notice me.

When I was working in transportation I knew a lot of drivers who felt they had more job security as a driver than as a manager. Their thought was that while companies came and went the work still had to be done and somebody, them, had to do it. Same work, just a different company name on the door.

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