Chatterbox #309 – Quiet quitting

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🗓️ 3 August 2023

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

In this Chatterbox episode, Andrew and Anna discuss quiet quitting. This term gained popularity during the COVID pandemic, and it refers to a situation where workers do the bare minimum of their employment responsibilities and do only the job that they’re being paid to do. Through this, employees refuse to engage in hustle culture. The question is, is quiet quitting a problem or a solution? Tune in to find out what our hosts think about it! Fun facts Quiet quitting is a popular topic these days, but have you heard of quiet firing? Quiet firing is when an employer tries to get rid of an employee without directly firing them. They make the employee's job less important or exclude them from important tasks, hoping that the employee will leave voluntarily. It seems like both employees and employers have found their own indirect ways of dealing with workplace challenges! Expressions included in the study guide Fed up To put [one’s] best foot forward Stiff upper lip To get on board with [something] Laid-back Ripped off Copyright: Culips.com For more information about this episode, visit culips.com. Music Credit: Something Elated by Broke for Free Image: Gustavo Fring (Pexels.com)

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0:00.0	Hello everybody my name is my name is Andrew and my name is Anna and you're listening to the
0:10.8	tulips English podcast.
0:14.0	Hello friends, welcome back to Kuleps. This is Chatterbox, our series for
0:19.5	Intermediate to Advanced English Learners that features natural conversations between
0:24.8	native speakers about compelling interesting topics or maybe even a
0:30.3	trending event and today I am joined by my co-host Anna. Hey there Anna.
0:36.0	Hi Andrew and hello listeners I hope you're all doing well. In the episode we're going to be
0:41.9	talking about a recent work phenomena called
0:45.0	Quiet Quitting. Contrary to its name Quiet Quitting isn't actually about
0:50.6	quitting your job. Instead it refers to doing the absolute bare minimum required to keep your job
0:57.2	and doing nothing more than that.
0:59.2	No above or beyond.
1:01.2	Yeah, that's right.
1:03.0	And these days I've been hearing so much about quiet quitting and I'm sure a lot of our listeners
1:08.5	have as well and who knows, Anna, we may even have some listeners out there who are participating in quiet quitting right now,
1:17.5	and they may be even listening to this episode on the job.
1:21.5	Who knows? To be, who knows? I've actually heard
1:24.9	estimates that up to 50% of the workforce are quiet creatures so that would
1:28.6	actually make a lot of sense. So then everyone today we're going to be doing a deep dive into this topic and try to examine it from all sides.
1:37.0	Along the way we'll share our opinions and of course break down and explain some of the important vocabulary used to talk about quiet quitting.
1:45.0	For all Kuleps members, there is a study guide and an interactive transcript for this episode
1:50.0	along with an ad-free version of the audio that includes some exclusive
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