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Self Care: The Real Name for ‘Quiet Quitting’
Can I be honest? (Even if you say no, I’m going to be anyway.)
I. Hate. The phrase. Quiet Quitting.
I know…it’s new and everyone is still trying to figure out what it really means, but come on. We know what “boomers” think it is. We know what “bosses” think it is. We know what Gen Xers and Millenials and all of the other labels seem to think it is. The problem is that each of those groups has a different notion of how to define the word.
The only thing you really need to know to wrap your head around it is that it isn’t actually quitting. It involves staying at your job, and staying unhappy.
Fin.
We have a more scientifically documented and researched phrase than quiet quitting anyway. It’s called “Burnout.” There, I said it. Quiet quitting is not exactly laziness, unless being lazy came about by overworking in the first place.
Chicken, meet Egg.
Look, I came of age watching those 80’s movies about stock brokers and women having it all in life. So now, nothing resonates with me more than what Amelia Nagoski says is a system rife with “unspoken cultural expectations rather than actual work requirement.”
When our goals or expectations are unmeetable, we get burned out. It’s pretty…
