Category: Antiwork

What's your story? I'm here to listen and give you fuckin credit for proving everyone wrong.

So we have our annual reviews this week. Since we were bought out by an international corporate this has never gone well, to the point that we've lost 90% of our original workforce. I'm a lowly warehouser. I'm not one to bag my colleagues, but this has me itching for a confrontation. So the new manager has been here for a month, and has been working hard to advocate for us to corporate with middling success. However, today he pulls aside my fellow warehouser for a secret squirrel conversation. Me and the warehouse manager both agreed it was weird. Later, the manager outright says they're fulfilling broken promises to this colleague. I piped up immediately – “what about the broken promises to the rest of us?” Got nothing from that. Then he comes back hours later and says they're starting the reviews in no particular order, but the aforementioned colleague…

It took me way too long to realize that “quiet quitting” is just corporate speak for “doing your fucking job”. It's pretty disgusting that rich people are getting absolutely PISSED off that there is a trend of people “quiet quitting” and doing their jobs and nothing more. The fact that corporate America has demonized doing your job, leaving on time, taking breaks, and having a work life balance by calling it quitting is gross. Like really fucking gross. People are supposed to be worked to death for their paychecks and shitty leaders will take nothing less. The new generations aren't taking the bullshit of corporate America and its fabulous.