Matt Walsh Reacts To People Being Losers On TikTok
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Summary
Quitting is the new negative talent crisis, and it s all thanks to the new trend called Quiet Quitting. It s a term coined by Peter Walsh to describe a person who decides to quit their job because they re tired of it.
Transcript
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I don't like my job, and I don't think I'm going to go anymore.
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Well, our culture's most popular pastime, as we know, is complaining, especially about stress.
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Now, our second favorite hobby is to come up with trendy new labels for common human experiences.
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What if we could whine about our stressful lives while also inventing a new label for
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And that's what brings us to the hot new trend called quiet quitting.
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This is a major topic of conversation on TikTok, especially where people are too burned out
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to do their jobs, but not too burned out to record TikTok videos talking about how burned
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So here's one viral TikTok video giving more details about this revolutionary new concept.
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Everybody's talking about quiet quitting and how it's the new negative talent crisis.
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The youngest generations at work are rejecting the idea of hustle culture or framing your
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With quiet quitting, you're doing what you're paid for and not more.
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I see this as a healthy evolution that can actually equalize the employee-employer relationship
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First of all, doing the bare minimum at work is not some unique, quirky, new approach to
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Second, if you want to do the bare minimum, that's fine.
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If you want to live a mediocre life, you're welcome to it.
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Many people before you have chosen that path and many people after you will do the same.
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And if you're doing the bare minimum at work, refusing to go above and beyond and not pursuing
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anything else notable with your life, then you will be unsuccessful and again mediocre.
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You will not flourish financially or in any other way.
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Being lazy will extract a payment from you, whether you like it or not.
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And what you are giving up in exchange for ease of life is any chance of doing anything
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Because the notable, interesting, and great things are done by people who give more of
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Don't come around later complaining about your lack of success.
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Don't become envious of the people more successful than you.
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Okay, you wanted to put in less effort, you aimed low, and you got what you wanted.
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You have no right to resent people who aimed higher than you.
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Third and final point, related to the first two points.
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I am not suggesting that you should stay forever in a job you hate, pouring yourself into it
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If you hate your job and you feel unfulfilled by it, if you feel that it's not making use
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of your talents, if you think it's a dead end, etc., then go chase something better.
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If you just don't want to work at all, then you're a lazy, overgrown child.
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As long as you maintain that attitude, you're destined, as previously discussed, to be a
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mediocre failure and a disgrace and an embarrassment to your family and everyone who knows you.
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But if you're willing to work and yet you feel that your work right now is wasted or
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futile or pointless, then go and pursue a new opportunity.
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What matters is whether you're doing work that is meaningful to you and which utilizes
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And now the makers of Quiet Quitting are back with a new hit called Hashtag Act Your Wage.
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This is another viral trend, which is essentially the same thing as Quiet Quitting, sort of taking
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the Marvel approach, where the sequel is a carbon copy of the original.
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The Act Your Wage trend, which has taken off on TikTok, is apparently best explained by
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this viral video, which has millions of views from TikTok user Sarai Marie.
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Hey, Veronica, I'm going to have you take this home and work on it tonight, okay?
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Veronica, did you just decline the Zoom meeting that's at 6.30 tonight?
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Yeah, because it's outside of my working hours, 9 to 5, so I won't be attending.
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All right, Veronica, I do need you to be available during your vacation, okay?
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Okay, Veronica, I'm going to need you to complete all this today.
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Oh, okay, just making sure, because that looks like the work of two people, right?
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It would appear that acting your wage means being so grating and annoying and shrill
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that you end up sitting alone in an empty corner of the office
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because everybody else has jumped out the window.
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Now, we should first note here, as we did with the quiet quitting trend,
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that proponents of this approach do, in theory, make a couple of valid points.
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So it's true that you should have a life outside of work.
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It's also true that you need to know how to set boundaries,
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not just at work, but in general, so you don't get taken advantage of.
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But both of these potential positives are ultimately neutralized because, for one thing,
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there is no real value in ensuring that you have extra time outside of work
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if you aren't going to spend that extra time doing something enriching and worthwhile.
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I'm sampling a flight of gluten-free German lagers with a French wine pairing.
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So most of these people will just go home and scroll through TikTok.
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We heard in the video that Veronica wanted to spend more time with her family.
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But the problem is that these days, most people in their 20s don't have families.
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So by family, they really mean their couch, their phone, and their HBO Max subscription.
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But in the adult world, you need to know how to do that with a certain amount of tact and diplomacy.
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What the video is recommending is that employees act like a bunch of spoiled toddlers,
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turning up the smarmy level to 100, screeching like overgrown bats,
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and acting offended that their boss would even ask them to do a little bit extra.
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See, you can't, this is what you have to understand, kids.
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And if you've made yourself expendable, that's going to be a problem for you.
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And making yourself expendable, it's certainly one way to approach life.
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The other way to approach it is to strive to be indispensable.
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If you're a younger person, and you're just starting out in your career, the deck has been cleared.
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Okay, many of your peers are settling for mediocrity already.
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And they've decided there's no point in trying.
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This is an opportunity for you, if you're not one of those people.
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As long as you have slightly more fortitude, and a slightly better work ethic, than all
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It's a big job getting by with nine kids and a wife.
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Yeah, but I've been working, man, dang there all my life.