Over the Hedge by T Lewis and Michael Fry for October 05, 2022

If they’re happier, of course.

Uniting sounds like too much work. How about we all sit around and stare sullenly at our coworkers?

Problem with quietly quitters is that they make the rest of us work harder to pick up their slack and get the jobs done.

Things are starting to get so bad at my current job that I feel I have nothing to lose by transferring to a different building.

Sitting around grumbling, doing little to nothing is a great way to make your work day drag even worse.

IMHO, quiet quitters are not grumbling, and sitting around doing nothing. They work as they’re hired to do, for the period of time that they are supposed to do it. However, there is no point to doing anything extra. Companies will not compensate them for that. Executives don’t give a rats patootie. We do our work, we do it well, and then we go home. We do not define ourselves in terms of our jobs.

Today’s cartoon? Um, just no. The point is that you’re already being worked to death and quiet quitting is just doing what you’re supposed to be doing and NOT working effectively 2 or more jobs for 1 salary. Saying that quiet quitters are ‘slackers’ is a huge part of the problem – they are ‘right sizing’ their work load. When companies ‘right size’ their work force, no one will need to quiet quit. When employers finally toss the ‘do more with less’ mantra we’ve been hearing for decades out the window, they’ll be headed in the right direction.

It’s a good thing that you ain’t human.

A new labor union?

Verne is down with our struggle✊

that’d be work

My grandfather was able to retire before he hit 50 in 1970. Ppl today are Quiet Quitting because… jobs no longer offer security regardless of how hard you work or how well you do you job. They’ll offshore your behind if it saves them a buck (ask me how I know). Employers no longer offer pensions unless you belong to a Union. Benefits today, frankly just suck. The list goes on but it’s not so cartoon simple.

First among them: street repair workers, champ hardly working workers.

That would involve picketing.