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What the fuck is this gaslighting propaganda bullshit? People in the US have been taking vacations for decades; it’s not exclusive to GenZ, nor is it a “new trend”. I call bullshit.
Quiet quitting is just doing your job/acting your wage.
People on the internet love to make dramatic sounding names for normal stuff.
it’s just a new term for something that exists.
no idea why it was every a big deal.
now everything is a culture war for engagement.
was there any drama when we started calling “beouf” “beef”?
Not only was there drama people couldn’t talk about the beouf they’d gotten into without starting it up again
To be fair, “quiet quitting” is a labour action that goes back decades if not centuries. A more common name is “work(ing) to rule”.
I remember that term from when my teachers were preparing to strike a long while ago. The fact is, most workers, teachers especially, go beyond the bare minimums that their jobs require. It made a big difference when teachers who used to supervise after-school activities just went home instead. In jobs that are associated with “vocational awe”, it’s very common for people to do much more than the minimum requirements for their jobs, so when they engage in a “work to rule” campaign, there’s a really big difference.
Yes, that is the same thing as
doing your job/acting your wage
Except “doing your job” doesn’t capture that it’s a deliberate change in how you perform at your job, and “acting your wage” is a newfangled way of saying the long established term, with its on Wikipedia page, “Work to Rule”.
CONTENT! ENGAGEMENT!!
‘This New Trend Called …’ is to Gen Z what ‘Breaking News: …’ is to Boomers: it won’t really impact your life straight away but still you feel you should listen to that FOMO calling.
Back in my day when the news said we killed an industry we actually did it
Yeah I mean, you wouldn’t have any tourism aside from rich folks otherwise
that’s the contradiction inherent I’m the system, congrats, you win 5 Marx points
You’re wrong. NObOdY wAnT WokR anYmORe
You were young and stupid once. You know perfectly well that back then whenever you did something for the first time it was also the first time anyone in the entire history of the universe had done that thing.
Speak for yourself. I’m all in on this trend and have even begun taking nano-retirements for about 16h each day.
taking a piss now counts as pico retirement.
yawning is a femto retirement
We don’t pay you to have a functional human biology, go back to work
I work in educational support on a 10-month contract. I am paid for the built in holidays and I save a little and take the summer off. I think it is a good work/life balance.
This is like 4x10 hour days or 3x12 hour days to the extreme!!
I also work in education (university level) but the IT side of the house. I’d love to do this but honestly the slow summer is when we get most of our more extensive maintenance done since it’s slow.
I can imagine! I cannot guess what it’s like to try to get big projects done when class is in. Just the oppressive amount of bodies. I remember the net going on once in my elementary school. That was chaos. Hearing “When will it be fixed” a thousand times. As someone who depends on IT (my laptop has become a frisbee more than once) thanks for your hard work. :p
did similar for years with sick time which was use or lose 10 days a year. boss complained my calling in sick Fridays and Mondays had become a pattern. well yeah. worked at a community college in illinois. not a slave.
Maybe someday I’ll work somewhere with good PTO. currently 6 holidays, 2 pto weeks and 1 sick week.
I wonder what this kind of people think about >20days of vacation in Europe.
Three weeks is what you need to really deconnect from a demanding work IMO.
It depends on how much you practice disconnecting. I found that working 4 day weeks allows me disconnect almost immediately every weekend.
Disconnection is not really a vacation issue per-se, it’s a work-life balance issue that can’t be solved if you spend the overwhelming amount of you waking time working.
4 day work week is fantastic you have time for the dentist, library books and everything else so easily 😍 and you’re right, for me at least, the holidays started like on day one!
four-day work weeks are great. guaranteed one day off M-F to get to appointments and other stuff that has to be done ‘during the day, during the week’… but the biggest bonus, perhaps, is one less day commuting each week; that’s 20% less time and expense traveling to-and-from work.
Ugh, every time I’ve tried that, its gone from 4 ten hour days to 5 tens. Once it went from 4 tens to 3 tens and 2 twelves.
New bullshit jargon just dropped.
Charles currently takes work breaks every six months for two weeks at a time, and said he heard about micro-retirements from a friend. “I reward myself by traveling to different countries. Whether it’s Europe during the summer or other destinations, and so that’s a way that I incentivize myself to reach certain KPIs,” says Charles.
FML Charles has discovered holidays
Give burnout a chance
Wow their website is a nightmare on mobile
Was very readable on IronFox. I also use uBlock Origin in medium mode.
This is a very aggressive setup that will break some sites, but after a while of using it and changing uBlock’s blocking on broken sites it’s an amazing way to not suffer the BS websites on the internet.
ETA: This applies to LibreWolf on PC as well.
Wait what?! I’m leaving on my paid month long vacation, required by law, on wednesday and can not believe you guys call it micro retirement
Yes, it’s a real article, and it’s worse than you are imagining.
Yeah this is just telling me we young people need to organize and demand more pto
Europe has this. You should too.
Not satire: https://www.fastcompany.com/91357784/what-is-a-micro-retirement-inside-the-latest-gen-z-trend
But they specify that unlike PTO, this is an unpaid time off, which can be a break inbetween jobs or a unpaid vacation.
Still fucking ridiculous to call it “micro-retirement”
Soon we will hear how gen z is having nano-retirements every 5 days of work that can include 2 days of no work and often destructive behaviour such as parties and binge watching tv.
What about those eight hours at night? I mean people hardly even think about work while they are dreaming.
It’s bad enough they get your waking life for minimum wage, but now they get your dreams for free.
You mean my pico-retirement? Sometimes i lay thinking awake before i start it and yes, sometimes I have thought about work during it and yes sometimes I think about what the day holds just after coming out of it - but that’s why you need to have a nano-retiremtent after every four to five pico-reti’s you know.
I also try to stack them if I found myself to occupied with work. I’ll allow myself a pico during a nano for example, instead of raving all night I choose to do some self-care. It’s really about finding the right balance. Please leave a like and subscribe for more meaningful insights.
We need to abolish zepto-retirements (thinking about anything that isn’t work while not yet retired)
Don’t be too quick to judge what previous generations referred to as a lunch break, a replenished body can really help keep the workers functioning! ;)
Literally time theft, off with your head!
I once had a dream that Steve Irwin had come in and wanted a tattoo of a budgie. Does that count?
Sounds like a billable hour to me.
I think its called a nightmare usually
I think they may have confused some terms here. Among my peers in engineering it’s quite common to take a few months between jobs to travel or relax. They usually call it funemployment. I totally get why one would want to take a longer break assuming you have sufficient savings before you quit. What this article seems to be describing is just unpaid vacation because we don’t have real vacation policies in the US.
Marketplace also covered the trend recently. They described it more as taking a few months to even a year or two off from work unpaid
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These genZ people are a bunch of suckers, why would you just go for 2 weeks? Take some time off a month not at the office is good for you!
Hello, non-USer
