Serious question, does anyone else find the whole 'quiet quitting' thing kind of a normal Tuesday?
I was on a job site in Everett last month, just laying down some vinyl plank in a condo, and the homeowner was on a video call in the next room. I heard him telling someone, 'Oh, I'm just quiet quitting, doing the bare minimum.' And it hit me, I mean, isn't that just... working? For like fifteen years before I went solo, my whole job was show up, do the task they gave me, go home. I didn't have some big moral stance about it, that was just the gig. Calling it a movement makes it sound like a choice, but for a lot of people, it's just the baseline reality of a job you don't own. Maybe it's just me, but framing it as some new act of rebellion feels weird. Has anyone else had a moment where a trendy term just described your regular, unglamorous life?