'Fully logging off at the time you’re supposed to: great. Not doing free labor for your employer: also great.'
Photo: Media/ClassicStock/Getty Images Anti-ambition is flourishing on TikTok. Everywhere you look, the youths are making fun of “girlbosses” and evangelizing the “soft life.” People are so burnt out they’re striving for mediocrity and Side-Character Energy. By now you’ve probably caught wind of “quiet quitting,” a confusingly named concept that has recently exploded on the app, triggering many, many opinions.
Another user, Gabrielle Judge, explained, “You’re still performing your duties, but you’re kind of doing the bare minimum and escaping from that hustle culture.” Other videos reference sticking to your working hours and not taking on extra work unless you’re paid for it. In one especially confusing TikTok, Clayton Farris proclaimed that since quiet quitting, “Nothing’s changed. I still work just as hard. I still get just as much accomplished.
If anything, it seems like quiet quitters are just striving to set healthy boundaries between their jobs and their personal lives. Fully logging off at the time you’re supposed to: great. Not doing free labor for your employer: also great. The main confusion seems to be what any of that has to do with “quitting,” as opposed to just … meeting your job expectations?
Many workplaces thrive on their ability to exploit their employees’s willingness to go above and beyond, which is probably why the idea of employees refusing to do work outside their contracts has been met with so much hand-wringing.
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