[bythckr]

My understanding of this whole "Quite Quitting" saga is that it's just burnout coupled with anxiety - that has effected the masses.

Before the 2020 shit storm, some had burnout, while some others had anxiety. The effected percentage was in the single digits. But now over 75% are affected by a combination of both.

I think that we have to accept that the world has changed. The way we function has changed.

Think about the days before internet and mobile.

If I just moved away from a friend that I went to a public place with lots of people, I had to find a pay phone and leave a message at my friend's answering machine at home, telling where to meet and go to the meeting spot and wait hoping that my friend has to call his home and listened to his saved message.

Just imagine that one fine day, the whole earths population get a mobile phone and is connected to the internet in just 24 hrs - the whole population of earth.

Think of all the radical changes we need to make to our lives. Tear down all payphones, shut down the answering machine making companies. This is just a very narrow example. Think how it will scale.

Everyone is struggling to make sense of this new world and their place in it - every human being. Those humans include the employees, managers and owners. All are struggling, and all are trying to make sense of the mess and how to move on.

So instead of blaming each other and shifting the blame, work together.

This is my take of "quite quitting". People are just preoccupied dealing with burnout & anxiety. Not focusing 100% at work.

I would like to know anyone else agrees with me and would really love to hear from the ones that don't agree with me.

[blep_]

("quiet", though in your defense I proceeded to make the same typo myself just now)

I don't know if this is as big a change as you think it is. There is no huge world-changing technology that just got released. We already had phones and the internet.

I'm experiencing burnout too, but when I look around, I have trouble seeing what actually changed in my life. I do effectively the same job I did before, in much the same way; my coworkers now exist in a rectangle on my screen labeled "Zoom" but otherwise behave as before. I have trouble believing that's enough to cause a mass epidemic of burnout.

I have considered the possibility that I happened to burn out for unrelated reasons at the same time all the extroverts of the world burned out because Zoom is actually that much worse for them, but I have no idea how to test or measure that.