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Seasoned_Greetings , (edited )

Quiet quitting has always referred to the extra bullshit that employers pressure employees into doing.

In America we've fallen into this work culture that implies you aren't really part of a team unless you are constantly putting forth more than what the employer is paying you for.

The undertone of this headline is that managers feel uneasy because so-called "quiet quitters" won't take on extra work or unpaid hours or exhibit overwhelming enthusiasm, but just do literally what they have to at a passable or high quality.

The gaslighting part is that those workers aren't doing anything wrong, but they aren't bending over backwards for their employers, so corporate America wants to paint the picture that those workers are awful time thieves instead of just burnt out wage slaves.

Seasoned_Greetings ,

Oh absolutely. In Japan for example if you are unable to work or you get removed from your career, it is socially understandable for you to consider suicide. Lots of Japanese citizens put their job before even their families or the potential of having a family.

It's actually pretty fuckin crazy what Japanese work culture does to their citizens.

Seasoned_Greetings ,

Although cursive has a unified design, everyone writes cursive a little differently. The idea is that cursive is designed to write whole words in a single stroke. The concept of a secure signature in cursive is that the more work a single stroke is, the more uniquely a person writes it.

That is to say, even though you may have the same name as someone else, it’s extremely unlikely that a person can copy your nuances precisely enough to forge your signature on the fly. It isn’t a perfect system, but it’s easy enough to verify a signature that people could do it before technology was around to aid that process.

That concept is also why they say the actual design of your signature is less important than the consistency of doing it the same every time.

Seasoned_Greetings ,

Depends on what degree the “on site bakery” needs to resemble an actual one.

I can see mcds adding a glass window with some muffins and calling that a “bakery” just to skirt the law.

Americans are confused, frustrated by new tipping culture, study finds ( www.washingtonpost.com )

It’s gotten rather absurd. If my interaction is with a kiosk short of being handed something, it’s an insulting extra step. I’m already paying the price for my employer’s pay scale … I can’t take on someone else’s stinginess....

Seasoned_Greetings ,

If you can’t, then your business model isn’t sustainable!

It’s this. Without the tip (or a higher upcharge in delivery fee to earmark some for the driver) there’d be no incentive for drivers to take the job. If the company didn’t take the delivery fee, there’d be no structure, like apps or a unified company distributing tax papers, etc.

Beyond that, since drivers typically choose which individual jobs to pick up, there’d be no incentive to take larger or more distanced orders.

The problem is that the business model doesn’t work in the first place and is largely on life support being propped up by tipping culture.

Seasoned_Greetings ,

Dude, this is depressingly true even on the smallest scale. I work for a guy who employs 6 people. He owns his business. We had him come out on site to help us one single time last summer and almost had a heatstroke doing what the rest of us do every day. But he’s the one who makes the phone calls and signs the checks so he makes a lot more than us.

I still would rather make a living doing this than working for a faceless corporation, but there are some aspects of capitalism you just can’t escape.

Seasoned_Greetings ,

You make a solid point. He assumes the risk and that’s why I’d still rather work for him than a big corporation.

The point I was making was just that the actual value of our company is created by us and we see a much smaller percent of the profit than he does. That compounded by the fact that he physically cannot hold the company up by himself comes off as condescending from our perspective sometimes.

He’s also a bit power trippy about it too. Like in that “boss vs leader” meme, he’s definitely the boss. Your dad sounds like a leader.

Seasoned_Greetings ,

“No one wants to work anymore”

Yeah, Karen. No one wants to work in the first place. You think you deserve employees who will accept crackers as payment for the joy and excitement of generating value for a company so you don’t have to?

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