Despite rumors of \u2018quiet quitting\u2019 and \u2018coffee badging\u2019, people know work is work and the perfect job doesn\u2019t exist<\/p>\n
If you read the media, you\u2019ll walk away with this impression: American employees are fed up. They\u2019re doing the \u201cbare minimum<\/a>\u201d on Mondays, \u201ccushioning<\/a>\u201d their careers with side gigs, \u201crage applying<\/a>\u201d to vent their frustrations and \u201ccoffee badging<\/a>\u201d to protest return-to-office policies.<\/p>\n US workers are \u201cghost quitting<\/a>\u201d (checking out without actually leaving their jobs) and pretending to work when actually practicing \u201cproductivity theater<\/a>\u201d. They\u2019re taking paid time off without authorization in the form of \u201chush trips<\/a>\u201d and \u201cquiet vacations<\/a>\u201d. They\u2019re suffering from \u201cZoom doom<\/a>\u201d and paying an \u201cemotional labor tax<\/a>\u201d. According to the latest polls, things are so bad that they\u2019re \u201cquietly cracking<\/a>\u201d.<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Despite rumors of \u2018quiet quitting\u2019 and \u2018coffee badging\u2019, people know work is work and the perfect job doesn\u2019t exist If you read the media, you\u2019ll walk away with this impression: American employees are fed up. They\u2019re doing the \u201cbare minimum\u201d on Mondays, \u201ccushioning\u201d their careers with side gigs, \u201crage applying\u201d to vent their frustrations and … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40610\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}