We promise we are giving 110% on this week's podcast! But not everyone is apparently, as an epidemic of "Quiet Quitting" is sweeping the nation. Rather than chasing the dream of hustle culture, employees are choosing to do the bare minimum to get through the day and absolutely nothing more. Some would argue this isn't quitting at all and instead just called "doing you job" but we dig into where this phrase came from and what it means not only for jobs, but for the economy as a whole.
The perfect film to discuss this trend is the classic 1999 comedy, Office Space. We dig into Mike Judge's live action feature film debut with an eye on how different types of employees respond to their dead end jobs. Whether it is Ron Livingston as the software developer Peter or Jennifer Anniston as the waitress Joanna, the film presents a world of disaffected and abused employees just trying to find a better world for themselves.
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Sources:
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/23/style/quiet-quitting-tiktok.html
https://fortune.com/2022/09/01/quiet-quitting-anti-work-job-lying-flat-china-us-economy-global/
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/07/22/coronavirus-pandemic-women-workforce-500329
https://www.uschamber.com/workforce/data-deep-dive-a-decline-of-women-in-the-workforce