That’s been gone for a lonnnnng time. Capitalism killed it.

So is the goal to actually get fired? Or to just not go for a promotion? I’m a little confused.

Or is it the guy from office space? “[make a guy]…work just hard enough to not get fired.”

Edit: Oh… I’ve got a good way to help clarify this…

Another office space reference, but I think this quantifies it well:

So if they ask you to wear 37 pieces of flair, is quiet quitting wearing 35, 36, 37, or 38 pieces of flair?

35. and that’s a write up for explicit underperformance and en route to being let go.

36. is basically the same thing but could be taken as a technicality or mistake.

37. is technically right, but a lot of shitty bosses will have a fit with their own standards and be all passive aggressive about it, and may even rock the boat until they have to fire you.

38. is juuust above the bare minimum, so they can’t say shit, but you won’t be getting a promotion anytime soon.

And anything above that, I’m just going to categorize as not quiet quitting for sake of simplicity. Don’t worry about performance percentages, that’s not the point here.

But why quitting?

Why not

Quiet Cocooning

Wtf is quiet quitting

How

I think a lot of them are afraid of being censored by the fascism for being alarmist. And then trying to hold onto a position of relative power via information is a tricky one, because you have to balance not only your tv station, but the backers, your audience, your managers, your coworkers, your position, your career, and also your life. These people are really REALLY risk adverse, for many different reasons. I’m not justifying it, but I’m imagining this is at least the intuition that some may be working through. Explanation is not justification.

Sooo, the darndest thing happened. I actually got really bad food poisoning like right after this comment. I’m still sick, two days later. But guess what? I still wash my hands after using the bathroom. I hate people that don’t wash their hands. WASH YOUR FUCKING HANDS, PEOPLE! WITH SOAP!

Honestly I didn’t know that about sg1, just that it was very much the same vein and the writers were probably fans…

I wonder why Gene didn’t like it. Honestly, how the Borg turned out was pretty good. A little underexplored, but still pretty good as a concept and what was on screen.

I kind’ve remember it. I wonder if those parasites are related to the canon trill symbiotes.

Definitely possible.

Is that the one with lieutenant Barkley where he gets really smart?

Nononono the worm eats the rabies, goes rabid, but then it becomes a symbiotic connection like the Symbiont Trill in ds9. Crazy stupid guy + rabid symbiont worm = ??? Profit?

Everybody around him probably constantly has diarrhea and is getting sick

What doesn’t kill him only makes him dumber and more dangerous

Me too. Unfortunately, I feel like she’s in a not great position when hits start flying, putin style.