Where REALLY "Quiet Quitting" Came From
Front Row Seat with Ken Coleman
Ramsey Network
4.6 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 18 August 2023
⏱️ 30 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up, I'll tell you where quiet quitting came from, and why are we even tolerating |
| 0:11.1 | this nonsense, and then new news on Amazon, and how they continue to treat their workers |
| 0:16.2 | terribly. |
| 0:17.2 | I'll fill you in next. |
| 0:23.7 | Helping you win at work so that you win in life, in other words, I want you to go from |
| 0:28.4 | exhausted by work to energize to work. |
| 0:32.6 | So let's talk about quiet quitting, the term quiet quitting skyrocketed in the United |
| 0:37.9 | States in July 2022 after TikTok posts from a 24-year-old engineer by the name of Zaheed |
| 0:45.5 | Khan. |
| 0:46.5 | Now, let's talk about what quiet quitting is with a lot of definitions out there, but it's |
| 0:52.8 | a form of passive-aggressive protesting that normalizes doing the bare minimum. |
| 1:00.4 | Now, it's being discussed as, well, I'm only going to do what is required of me, and |
| 1:06.7 | not another Iota more, as if that's honorable. |
| 1:12.2 | But what it really is is doing the bare minimum and bare minimum thinking and bare minimum |
| 1:20.0 | working is average to below average. |
| 1:24.2 | It is settling, and it will absolutely suck the soul out of your body. |
| 1:30.6 | So why are young people in the United States adopting this mindset? |
| 1:35.5 | The anti-work movement is another exploding movement in the dark corners of social media. |
| 1:43.8 | These young people, and dare I say, people my age, middle age, they don't believe that |
| 1:50.6 | going above and beyond has any return on investment. |
| 1:56.0 | Why? |
| 1:58.0 | They've seen their own family members come home, exhausted, burned out, depleted, diminished, |
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