https://fortune.com/2022/10/17/larry-summers-quiet-quitting-economic-outlook-recession/
Isn't quiet quitting just doing your fucking job and then leaving and not answering your phone when you clock out instead of doing extra work that you're not paid for?
Not responding to my bosses texts or emails over the weekend and getting high instead is the most pleasant experience I've had in the working world in a long time, it's nice
Yes, it's when the peons fail to show sufficient fealty to their wealthy masters, and ghouls like this guy are mad about it
Is that what it is!? This whole time I've assumed it was quitting without telling your boss.
No they really are just whining that people are doing the job they're paid to do instead of doing unpaid overtime, working through brakes, and tongue polishing the bosses loafers.
Ironically, he's right but that's because that's how capitalism works lmao it demands a reduction in variable capital, so that unpaid labour is essential to the functioning of capitalism.
unpaid labour is essential to the functioning of capitalism.
i.e. slavery
Wow turns out I've been "quiet quitting" my entire career lol. Who checks on shit when they get home I forget I have a job the second I leave work
It’s basically just individual slow-downs without any organized worker action. I am skeptical that it even exists as a real trend, but anyone promoting it as “praxis” is getting sucked into bourgeois individualist ideology in a knee-jerk reaction.
Things like strikes and slow downs only work when they are organized and have demands.
I’m not saying you have to slave away for your boss, I am not saying it’s bad to do a “quiet quitting” slow-down, go for it. It’s just not political or praxis or revolutionary. And if you are actively involved in organizing, I recommend doing a competent job so you can’t be fired easily, and any retaliation would be easier to prove
The cool thing about sandbagging is if you unionize you can easily work a bit more afterward and make it harder for management to create pretexts
Take it easy on the guy, he's still mourning a close friend :didnt-kill-himself:
Altruism is wrong unless it benefits an ungrateful rich person, then it should be mandatory?
Almost sounds like gasp a contradiction!
When I worked at Kohl's, we were always understaffed, and there was such an expectation that you would work through breaks. People were shocked when I explained that Kohl's isn't a charity and I'm not donating my time.
Reminds me of working at Kroger, when I did second shift customer service. The desk closed at 10 every night, and I would be scheduled until 10 pm. Actually closing it took about 30 minutes of running reports, shutting things off, and the like, so I had to start at 9:30 to leave on time. But they wanted me to keep it open until the posted closing time at 10, which would normally mean starting the closing process at 10, but they were very strict on nobody working any overtime. What this meant for most people was that they would clock out at 10 when they were supposed to, and then do the 30 minutes of work off the clock. I would always either close early so I could leave on time, or stay on the clock for the extra 30 minutes. Management got mad at me a lot lol, but I never got in trouble, because they didn't want to say out loud that they were expecting me to work off the clock
The thing is, you would 100% get in trouble if they "found out" you were working off the clock, since they didn't want to risk getting in trouble. They just made sure they didn't find out about it as much as possible when it did happen. There was all kinds of performative compliance at that store. They would always pressure us to make use of any way we could fudge metrics to make the store look better, but once corporate found out, the blame was all on the people who did it.
Now I'm just thinking back, there was all kinds of stuff I did in that job that got management mad at me lol. As a front end supervisor, I had a pretty good working relationship with the baggers where I wouldn't go out and micromanage them collecting shopping carts like I was supposed to (god forbid someone listen to music while they work alone). And in return I never had to worry about whether or not it got done on time, because they always kept on top of it without needing to be reminded constantly.
The passive-aggressive shithead in me loves to act clueless in situations like that to try to force people to say the thing out loud.
I wish I would have done that more often in retrospect lol. Unfortunately I was a mere lib at the time, and my inclination was just to do what I could without drawing too much attention to myself
"The phrase that caught fire in the corporate press for which he acts as a quote mine"
So “unlikely” for a bourgeois talking head to spread bourgeois ideology on the bourgeois press
"Quiet Quitting" was already a propagandistic euphemism for "not working as hard as your boss thinks you should, 100% of the time." So when we remove that rancid little layer of abstraction, this headline actually reads: "Pampered priest of Capital says actual workers are ruining the economy by not feeding themselves into the meat grinder hard enough"
Cool! Thanks! Interesting! Face the wall and say cheese!
More like Cardinal of Capital.
Don't need a fancy Economics degree to be a simple priest. You have hacks like :crowder-owned: and :expert-shapiro: spreading the good word, after all.
Well, I don't give a fuck about the economy. Why don't we just have a better system to accommodate people who quiet quit?
Hey maybe if your economy is built on people doing more than they are being paid for then the economy probably shouldn't exist
I thought the two or three week lifespan of this media-produced buzzword was already up?
One thing that the old capitalists seemed to at least understand is that the God they serve is labor. That the masses are the slumbering giant waiting to be awoken and their lives depend on keeping it in slumber. As long as labor slumbers, capital accumulation can continue.
The modern ones seem to have grown complacent and are banging pots and pans while slathering themselves in butter.
Don't business owners and managers like to pride themselves on being faux-prep talkers and morale boosters? And they're complaining that workers are not well-motivated?
Don't know what this is if not an admission of their own incompetence.
businesspeople cannot fail, they can only be failed (by LAZY PEOPLE WHO JUST DON'T WANT TO WORK or NOT ENOUGH FREE PARKING or CUSTOMERS WHO WILL NOT JUST GIVE THEM MONEY—I OPENED A BUSINESS YOU ARE REQUIRED TO GIVE ME MONEY)
good friend of Epstein who appears on the flight logs Larry Summers thinks quiet quitters are ruining the economy and not undead parasites like himself
LITERALLY DEFINED AS DOING WHAT YOU ARE ASKED
IF YOU THINK YOUR EMPLOYEES SHOULD BE DOING MORE THINGS, MAYBE YOU SHOULDN'T HAVE ASKED THEM TO DO LESS THAN THAT
And I think Larry Summers should be turned into fertilizer
I also think my idea has more positive economic benefit than whatever boomer sentiment he's got
