Over the Hedge by T Lewis and Michael Fry for October 03, 2022

If it were easy, anyone, even engineers, could do it.

‘Quietly’ fits better.

It’s hip to be square.

R.J., you should see what’s happening today in “Thatababy” (Paul Trap). :-)

Careful RJ. The guys who do the strip might give you a real job.

Hipness comes and goes, RJ. It’s not worth it.

Hipness is what it is, and sometimes hipness is what it ain’t

~ Tower of Power

I was going to “Quiet quit”, then I realised I was retired! Oh well…

I didn’t even know about quiet quitting, I had to look it up.

But, Verne, AIUI, quiet quitting isn’t quitting “all that”; it’s not doing more than the minimum. Why would RJ think he’s doing more of what he regularly does than he needs to do? “More” is RJ’s expressed preference. His idea is “Too much is never enough.”

The term somehow doesn’t quite make sense to me. It’s more like you are just doing what’s in your job description rather than putting in %110 all the time. Management’s been milking the job loss fear for a long time. When people were fired, those that remained continued to work their jobs and took over the functions of their former coworkers for zip extra pay. It just burns everyone out.

Quiet rage, eh? That’s worrisome.

Go for it RJ!

I think that the concept was invented in the Soviet Union, where they used to say “We pretend to work, and they pretend to pay us.”