ecosophia | Open (More or Less) Post on Covid 54

As we move further into the second year of these open posts, it's pretty clear that the official narrative is cracking as the toll of deaths and injuries from the Covid vaccines rises steadily and the vaccines themselves demonstrate their total uselesness at preventing Covid infection or transmission. It's still important to keep watch over the mis-, mal- and nonfeasance of our self-proclaimed health gruppenfuehrers, and the disastrous results of the Covid mania, but I think it's also time to begin thinking about what might be possible as the existing medical industry reels under the impact of its own self-inflicted injuries.

So it's time for another open post. The rules are the same as before:

1. If you plan on parroting the party line of the medical industry and its paid shills, please go away. This is a place for people to talk openly, honestly, and freely about their concerns that the party line in question is dangerously flawed and that actions being pushed by the medical industry et al. are causing injury and death. It is not a place for you to dismiss those concerns. Anyone who wants to hear the official story and the arguments in favor of it can find those on hundreds of thousands of websites.

2. If you plan on insisting that the current situation is the result of a deliberate plot by some villainous group of people or other, please go away. There are tens of thousands of websites currently rehashing various conspiracy theories about the Covid-19 outbreak and the vaccines. This is not one of them. What we're exploring is the likelihood that what's going on is the product of the same arrogance, incompetence, and corruption that the medical industry and its tame politicians have displayed so abundantly in recent decades. That possibility deserves a space of its own for discussion, and that's what we're doing here.

3. If you plan on using rent-a-troll derailing or disruption tactics, please go away. I'm quite familiar with the standard tactics used by troll farms to disrupt online forums, and am ready, willing, and able -- and in fact quite eager -- to ban people permanently for engaging in them here. Oh, and I also lurk on other Covid-19 vaccine skeptic blogs, so I'm likely to notice when the same posts are showing up on more than one venue.

4. If you don't believe in treating people with common courtesy, please go away. I have, and enforce, a strict courtesy policy on my blogs and online forums, and this is no exception. The sort of schoolyard bullying that takes place on so many other internet forums will get you deleted and banned here. No, I don't care if you disagree with that: my journal, my rules.

With that said, the floor is open for discussion.

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https://www.npr.org/2022/08/19/1117753535/quiet-quitting-work-tiktok?t=1660983241964

Quiet quitting is trending now...

Quiet quitting doesn't actually involve quitting. Instead, it has been deemed a response to hustle culture and burnout; employees are "quitting" going above and beyond and declining to do tasks they are not being paid for.

Burnout has been around for all the 20th century and there were nothing like this

Quiet quitting is in line with a larger reevaluation of how work fits into our lives and not the other way around. As Gen Z is entering the workforce, the idea of quiet quitting has gained traction as Gen Zers deal with burnout and never-ending demands.

More blaming of burnout.

However, Gen Z is not the first generation to experience burnout, and quiet quitting is not a new idea. Zitron shared his frustrations with the framing of the term, because it mischaracterizes doing the tasks you are paid for with the idea of quitting your job.

"The term 'quiet quitting' is so offensive, because it suggests that people that do their work have somehow quit their job, framing workers as some sort of villain in an equation where they're doing exactly what they were told," Zitron said.

Employers benefit financially from workers doing extra work without compensation and it is reasonable for employees to push back against that, he added.

The reported notices that burnout is not new but fails to notice that the response is radically different. The most quiet quitting is around the waxxinees enthusiasts in the corporate environment.

If you are experiencing burnout at work, setting boundaries can help you regain some control. Additionally, working on addressing workplace conflict head-on can make a situation easier — or be a sign it's time to move on.

That's not good advice, if you are sick you want to stay below rather as long as possible and get that check, to pay the bills.

What is interesting about quiet quitting is that it can be coopted by the anti-waxxinees too.

The Corporate beast besides all ills is in for a sharp decrease in production, both from their poisoned clot shot workers, and from the estranged persecuted lot.

Interesting.

In retrospect, I think I "quiet quit" a job in 2020, before I actually quit it in 2021.

I was working part-time at a place that went full-on Branch Covidian, and I realize that I had started "quitting" that job long before I gave final notice - I saw the writing on the wall by summer of 2020, but didn't formally give notice until fall of 2021. Fall of 2021 was when they wanted me to come back into the office. Up until then I'd been working from home of course, because everything had to be "virtual until we're vaccinated!" (a literal email quote), but when they started re-opening in late 2021, I officially pulled the plug. But I'd already "quiet quit" that job a good year earlier, just doing the minimum necessary to keep a paycheck coming while I re-evaluated my options and looked for new work.

"employees are "quitting" going above and beyond and declining to do tasks they are not being paid for..." This is a well known variety of labour strike, which is often used by so called "critical" workers who are legally forbidden to strike - eg health workers, police officers, etc.

This type of strike is traditionally called a "work to rule". Basically you continue to do everything that is written down in your contract and job description and not one jot or iota more. (I find this a beautiful upset to bureaucratic administrators, since it is very hard for a bureaucrat to find fault with people for strictly - exceedingly strictly - following rules and procedures... ;)

I quit my job in stages over about five years before I completely quit earlier this year.

First, I got promoted to management. There wasn't much of a raise to go with that, but they stopped paying me for overtime. So I stopped working overtime.

Then when I met and exceeded all of my targets, my boss was not impressed because he had secretly been thinking about a new set of targets that he didn't tell us about. So I stopped making any effort to meet my targets.

Then I led a highly successful project that made a major contribution to the bottom line, and management basically ignored it because they were embarrassed that they had not solved the problem themselves. So I stopped trying to produce any results at all.

For the last year or two, I was basically just putting in my hours and doing the bare minimum of work required not to get fired. I spent most of my work time reading and studying for enjoyment and self-improvement, and planning my escape.

Part of the economic cycle. Every generation calls it something different "disengagement", "checking out". Corporations don't really care, they don't use people in a sustainable manner to begin with. They'll shuffle them out the door and slot in new people, or at least, that's how they think.

Open (More or Less) Post on Covid 54

Quiet quitting or waxxine fatigue??!!?!?

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