"Quiet quitting" is "stupid" "fucking" "bullshit"
Also, the bigger Facebook got, the crazier people got, says science
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The voice in your head being a real jerkhole except it’s your voice
On this week’s podcast, I talk to Annie Weisman, the creator of the TV show Physical. The show features Rose Byrne in, essentially, two roles: Sheila, a bulimic and mentally exhausted aerobics entrepreneur, and the hateful voice in Sheila’s head that is constantly tearing her down.
Annie is a veteran TV maker and playwright. She knows all about writing characters. Hell, she worked on Desperate Housewives. That one has some characters. And in our podcast, we get into a really interesting discussion of inner-voice-as-antagonist, like the dramatic function of our own self-sabotage.
And Annie knows a few things on the subject. She dealt with bulimia from her late teens to age 30, never letting those around her know what was going on.
I feel like putting this here:
It’s in your head, in your head, zombie, zombie. How true that is.
Stop. Saying. That. Stupid. Ass. Phrase.
I should know better than to read articles like this. Instead, I don’t know better and share them with you. The Hill talks about the LATEST BIG CRAZE, which is not the Harlem Shake or the Macarena or quiet quitting, it’s called JUST FUCKING GETTING BY AND TRYING TO SURVIVE.
Except that The Hill calls it quiet quitting.
Quiet quitting is becoming more popular among U.S. workers, due in part to pandemic-related burnout.
Now, new data show college students are hopping on the trend as one-third of these individuals report putting less effort into schoolwork in an effort to preserve their mental health.
Quiet quitting refers to employees not going above and beyond in the workplace, and only doing exactly what their job description requires, according to Gallup. In the school setting, the definition refers to students only doing what’s required in courses and not putting in their full or extra effort.
When specifically questioned about their school work habits, 34 percent of students said they do not go above and beyond what is required and 30 percent said they just put “some” effort into the work.
The majority of these individuals said they do so in an effort to preserve their mental and physical health. Other reasons provided included procrastination, not having enough time and being too comfortable with low expectations.
Listen. Listen to me now.
It’s not QUITTING to do WHAT YOU ARE SUPPOSED TO DO.
People aren’t quiet quitting their jobs. I think you monsters use that term because you’re bamboozled by alliteration. To give an employer what is required, is not any kind of quitting at all. It’s called doing your job. For students, to do the work you need to do to pass the class and move forward is either a wise conservation of resources or it’s doing all your mentally capable of doing.
College students are a mess these days. If you know, say, two college students and neither of them have had some kind of mental breakdown, you are either in an exceptional situation or you are being lied to.
I think the business community, aka the dinks who got us into this work fetishization in the first place, are just mad that they’re having a harder time snookering people into doing more work for free.
LET. PEOPLE. GET. BY. WITHOUT. STIGMATIZING. THEM. THROUGH. BULLSHIT. TRENDY. BUZZWORDS.
Facebook makes young people crazy
That’s according to RESEARCH from RESEARCHERS.
They studied the appearance of Facebook at Harvard, through other colleges and universities, and then out to the public.
We find that the roll-out of Facebook at a college increased symptoms of poor mental health, especially depression. We also find that, among students predicted to be most susceptible to mental illness, the introduction of Facebook led to increased utilization of mental healthcare services. Lastly, we find that, after the introduction of Facebook, students were more likely to report experiencing impairments to academic performance resulting from poor mental health.
Anecdotal but worth considering, from an article in Times of Israel:
According to data from the Centers for Disease Control, the suicide rate among 10- to 24-year-olds was stable from 2000 to 2007, then increased 57% between 2007 and 2017.
I gots the covid!
So on Friday morning, I had a slight sore throat. Wouldn’t have even thought to test but others in my family had recently experienced covid and, even though they had isolated pretty well, I figured I had to check and boom, two lines!
I dodged the thing for 2.5 years but it got me. Then I took the dogs for a walk (masked and distanced from humans), contacted my doctor’s office, got a prescription for Paxlovid, did some work on the podcast, and then rested. During that rest, I reflected on the mental health situation of it all compared to early in the pandemic.
In the early days, I feared the virus because I figured if I got it, I might die. Years later, two vaccination shots, more booster shots later including the new bivalent, I still caught the dang thing. Which was not my understanding. I thought it would be like other diseases I never get due to vaccination, like polio and, I dunno, mumps.
But instead, I knew I’d be fine. The Paxlovid works great, the shots did their job, and really it’s just meant that I felt a bit stoned for a couple days and enjoyed a couple of naps. The physical health benefit of our covid response has helped me a lot but the mental health part has been cool too.
Leadership lessons from the dancing guy
This is cool:
Thanks for calling out "quiet quitting". Really irritating phrase/concept/behavior.
Glad to hear your experience with COVID was not stressful.
The leadership/first follower video is getting a bit tired , tho.
Thanks for what you do. Love the conversation.