Where do you work, Peter?

It doesn't really matter.

I don't like my job and I don't think I'm going to go anymore.

Well, our culture is the most popular pastime, as we know, is complaining, especially about stress.

Our second favorite hobby is to come up with trendy new labels for common human experiences.

What if we could whine about our stressful lives while also inventing a new label for something

people have always done? That would be the modern dream. That's the holy grail.

And that's what brings us to the hot new trend called quiet quitting.

This is a major topic conversation on TikTok, especially where people are too burned out to do

their jobs, but not too burned out to record TikTok videos talking about how burned out they are.

So here's one viral TikTok video giving more details about this revolutionary new concept.

Everybody's talking about quiet quitting and how it's the new negative talent crisis.

I think it's a good thing. The youngest generations at work are rejecting the idea of

hustle culture or framing your entire life around some dream job. With quiet quitting,

you're doing what you're paid for and not more. And it's about setting boundaries.

I see this as a healthy evolution that can actually equalize the employee-employer relationship more.

First of all, doing the bare minimum at work is not some unique, quirky new approach to life.

We don't need a label for it. It's called lazy. You're lazy and you're stupid.

Second, if you want to do the bare minimum, that's fine. That's mediocrity. If you want to live a

mediocre life, you're welcome to it. Cut your mouth, your mediocre clarinet player.

Mediocre? Many people before you have chosen that path and many people after you will do the same.

That's why it's mediocrity. And if you're doing the bare minimum at work, refusing to go above

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