So i'm an Automotive Technician or Mechanic, I repair cars and trucks. I've been in alot of different shops because I have job hopped this field. I have yet to find a place I wanted to stick around for longer than 3 months. I have been in at least 15 different shops over the last 3 years. The cultures are damn near identical. These “macho” men working in these shops whine about the bosses of the places but when that boss comes around they become the equivalent of a simp i.e. they will never voice their contempt or issues with them it's like watching a puppy dog that just pissed on the rug cower in the corner. It is absolutely pathetic. These shops with the exception of only one shop had the same damn issues. 90% of the lights were busted in the shop and a headlight was mandatory over a few hundred dollars worth of light bulbs. We lacked supplies i.e. parts cleaner(carb cleaner), different viscosities of oil, rags, oil dry, DAMN BROOMS AND DUST PANS. You get the idea the auto repair industry is in the toilet.
So I wanted to tell people this about my last job I had at a transmission shop. I worked with another guy and we were removing and installing transmissions in vehicles. This guy had the same complaints as me but instead of “Quiet Quitting”, which we all know is just doing what you're being paid for, he decided to get angry with me that I would not help him clean the entire shop everyday and he threw a grown man hissy fit that culminated in “I DONT KNOW WHY YOU THINK YOU'RE TOO GOOD TO SWEEP THE FLOOR” to which I said calmly “Bro we're skilled labor, mechanics, we are not janitors the max i'm going to clean is the direct area I used to perform my job. You should do the same because we aint getting paid to play janitor.” This guy would literally whine about how little he got paid constantly. I couldnt wrap my head around his behavior other than there had to be something happening in his personal life that made him act irritably. I'll say this also that job was the first I ever did just the bare minimum and I didnt even know it was called Quiet Quitting just to do your job and nothing else.
I'm here to tell you first hand that the “simp” culture far extends out of offices. I get why business owners would want something for nothing or the max amount of productivity but at the same time aint nothing free and if you cant afford it then you aint got no money take your broke ass home.
I seen one episode of Dr. Phil where he had the Quiet Quitter crowd on stage with the Executive crowd to talk about the issue at hand. And that old CEO guy said “We're going to be speaking Chinese” anyone with any kind of brain can tell you the Chinese have already won. When you go to every store in this country and 99% of the stuff you buy says “Made in China” bro they already won. If our existence is centered, and it is, around consumerism and just buying crap where that crap comes from is who holds the power because if they stop that would mean our inability to continue consuming and thus the end of our way of life. It really is deep.
Also something else about the Chinese from an analytical viewpoint they're more of a team and cohesive than Americans are. I mean look at our society we're so oblivious to common sense and how anything works. You're born here, you go to work here, and then you die here. We can't seem to grasp the idea that jobs and work are more than just minor inconveniences you endure for 10-14 hours a day and you do everyday the majority of your life span for most people. Now is that agreeing with what CEOS are saying yes in a way because while they say it as propaganda i'm saying it as something else, a simple fact because it is a fact but what i'm about to say about that is something the CEO cringes at because it means he/she has a responsibility in society to ensure the people serving/working for him/her and in their place are living in a dignified way and that counters their beliefs that they exist to make money just by breathing. Which let's face it guys that's why they hire managers, consultants, and people to run their enterprises and businesses so they can just live while money is sucked into their bank accounts.
A job, career, etc. is how you exist on this planet and as such it is tied to your identity and how you and others see yourself and as such all jobs either should be able to sustain in a dignified way the people working and doing them or those jobs are useless. We have lost the connection between people and living. We really have. We're over here arguing over trivial stupid garbage in the society creating and imagining up more problems than we are able to produce solutions for. It's not balanced. It's going to be disastrous.
We are debating issues in society when we still have people living on streets and starving. Until the bare minimum of issues has been solved how did we even get on radical societal issues? I dont understand the world I live in all I know is I dont like it.