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So you don\u2019t like your job, probably hate your boss, think you should be paid more for all the hard work and overtime you put in, maybe your co-workers look like mindless drones these days and retirement seems a lifetime away (it is!) \u2026 but quitting isn\u2019t an option, not when you would lose your health care and your apartment, the apartment that already costs more than you can believe.\u00a0 What\u2019s a person to do?<\/p>\n
Well, apparently, quit in place.\u00a0 Stop killing yourself.\u00a0 Stop sucking up to your boss.\u00a0 Refuse to take overtime.\u00a0 Slow down, relax, daydream a bit, take a long lunch break, sneak a joint in the john.\u00a0 It\u2019s a brand new workplace.\u00a0 The go-go years have gone gone gone, good riddance.\u00a0 The company treats you like a robot, act like one.\u00a0 One pace, steady and slow as she goes. Do as little as possible, same as they would do for you.\u00a0 They\u2019re no longer loyal to you employees, why be loyal to them?\u00a0 This is the New Work Ethic.\u00a0 Congratulations and welcome to your new cubicle.<\/p>\n
Personally, I always believed in Quitting.\u00a0 Seemed like a good strategy.\u00a0 Course, apartments didn\u2019t cost an arm and a leg back then and health insurance wasn\u2019t in the cards.\u00a0 Pensions, 401-K\u2019s, fergettaboutit.\u00a0 I was part of the gig economy decades before it had a name and by the time it did, I was self-exiled to the South End where employment was marginal to non-existent.\u00a0 So I did what the rest of us layabouts did down here, worked for myself.\u00a0 Sure, the boss was a jerk, but that\u2019s the joy of self-employment, you can look him in the eye and tell him to go to hell.\u00a0 Won\u2019t affect your wages one iota.\u00a0 And end of the day you can have a beer or two together, gripe about the same issues, maybe decide neither of you will work the next day.<\/p>\n
I recommend it.\u00a0 But quitting in place.\u00a0 I dunno.\u00a0 Seems like the days would just be interminable, slowing down, dragging feet, avoiding work.\u00a0 You like that kind of job, maybe be a traffic sign holder, SLOW, STOP, for a construction company.\u00a0 Hours like years, days like a lifetime.\u00a0 Personally I like to work if I\u2019m going to work, put a back into it, feel like it was worth the effort.\u00a0 Time flies even when it\u2019s not much fun.\u00a0 But \u2026 don\u2019t say you heard it from me.\u00a0 And whatever you do, don\u2019t tell my boss.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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