Quiet Nourishing

Millennials are wasting a 1/3 of their day in laying in bed. We spoke to industry experts about how this generation habit is impacting productivity.
- Nightly quit-hibernation is time theft from your employer.
- They’re killing the furniture industry! Their habit for laying in bed is reducing the demand for things like dining room chairs, recliners, couches, and sofas.
  
  Don't forget the most comfortable of all furniture; the cheapest office chair your boss could buy in volume!

Millennials attempting to kill the food industry by buying less of it. Economists baffled.
- Your comment reminds me of that time The Wall Street Journal unironically told people to save money by skipping breakfast.
  
  Sigh I grew up poor. Only got food at dinner. My family didn't qualify for free school lunch. Learned not to eat as often. Was a change when my SO wanted 3 whole meals a day.
- They're already blaming Millennials for killing the real estate industry by not buying enough houses.
  
  I'm so glad gen x was completely skipped over in all of this.

Millennials "quiet breathing" oxygen in the company-owned building.
- This is why I would never emigrate to Mars, because the corpo-tyranny would charge for air.
  
  After the ecological collapse, Earth will be like this too
  
  Company monopoly on air is an element of Total Recall (1990). Great Movie.
- If we follow the logic of “doing your job” = “quiet quitting” then you need to call it “quiet suffocating”.
  
  sufficating
  suffocating
- Reminds me of the Druuge from Star Control II
  
  Life in the Crimson Corporation is typical: there are good times, when benefit packages and bonuses improve and bad times, when the corporation has to lay off some employees. Only, if one is out of job, one is out of luck. Since everything on Druuge worlds is Corporation property, every ex-employee is instantly trespassing and guilty of stealing corporation property, like air and sunlight. The only suitable punishment in Druuge laws for that is to feed the Furnace. Retired ex-employees are, however, allowed to breathe Corporation air (albeit at decreased rates).

if quiet quitting is "doing your job", then wouldn't having a normal lunch break be "quiet starving"?
I write this as I am quietly constipated.
I'm kidding, this is the loudest shit I've had in weeks. The acoustics in here are fantastic.
- And you didn't record it for us?!
  
  Just another in ASeriesOfPoorChoices
  
  Hang on it's been 6 hours???? Still no recording???

- I'll never get over the fact that the people ruining the world economy, pushing millions/billions into poverty and thus being indrectly responsible for health issues and even deaths of countless people, got severance payments of 100+ million dollars...
- 2008
  Time is a flat circle.
  https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/

Millennials being blamed/credited for an incredibly short lunch break is amazing.
- It's to make any millenials that read it think that their own 60 minute lunch break is too long
  
  And then there's me, just barely Z, office job, heading for lunch at 12 with my boss, his boss and some other colleagues, chatting about whatever (not work), eventually getting up to head back to work around 1250 because some of us have meetings at 13. My boss asks me if I want to grab a cup of coffee with him, we end up sitting in the break room for another half hour, eventually turning to work topics too.
  On my timesheet, I write lunch 1200-1230 for the legal minimum 30 min break. My boss signs it. Nobody bats an eye.
  Sure, I'm incredibly lucky, but I'd wager being in a unionised company in a country with fairly strong union protections (Germany) does some work too. If my boss started being a stickler for rules, I'd be talking to my union rep, and that just doesn't end well.
  They're scared enough of the union that, when a round of negotiations failed to achieve the result they were hoping for and the union put out notice (as in, flyers in the break rooms) that they're considering the threat of strikes, the CEO immediately announced raises retroactively effective for the whole month, "as a show of goodwill".
  Previous negotiations have also resulted in flat one-off payments even for working students. A 500€ tax-free bonus might not sound like a lot if you're making 4k+ net, but for me it was half a month of wages.
  Also, I have 30 days of paid time off, on top of bank holidays and unlimited sick leave (provided I submit a doctor's note on the third consecutive day). One coworker was sick for over half a year.
  Unions work.
  
  People actually get 60 minute lunch breaks? Is that with two 15 minute paid breaks too?

All these online outlets are ragebait trash. The fact that they paywall is the cherry on top
- They are also carrying water for the billionaire class.

I'm Gen X and you bet your sweet bippy I quiet nourish, usually ending up eating my lunch at 10 am. And nobody could do anything to me about it because I'm in a union. I'll suck every morsel of fun or comfort out of my workday I can. Hell I might just take this new job I interviewed for which is from home and take up crochet. There's not a thing they can do. Unions are great.
- I support unions. Don't give the enemy fodder for reasons why unions are bad.
  I'm sure you work hard, and deserve time to relax as well, even on the clock. It doesn't come across that way with your comment. Thanks.
  
  You're getting downvoted, but I got a weird vibe from that comment, and your reply nailed exactly what it was.
  
  Me acting like a functioning adult who doesn't need to be micromanaged all day and can take a few minutes and enjoy myself is anti union? No it's pro human.
  
  ...Did you misread their comment? You're not making much sense here, and I like to think my reading comprehension is at least above average...

Quiet nourishing costs 30 billion a year in lost productivity. Shame, millennials
- My 30 minutes generate thousands in revenue and yet I am only a couple.

Unions here require you to take 30 minute lunch breaks plus a 15 minute break between that and end of shift (for the regular 8 hour shifts)
- France here: 45 min lunch break minimum legally, but it's usually 1h30 (or 2h).
  
  I have never had that long of a break, even in grade school my lunch was 15-20min including standing in line to and from the cafeteria
  
  Finland here. Legally it's supposed to be at least 30 if not 45 min, and we've laws about overtime and what have you but I never got them in a single place of work and somehow the bosses just kept getting away with it.
  Even somewhat large companies.
  I have never worked a job in my life that I was actually afforded the protections and rights that the law required. Some I left, some just wouldn't change.
  
  That's not true, french law doesn't guarantee a break specifically for lunch. It guarantees a break for an amount of time wich depends on the duration of the workday, usually 20 minutes. Source ( in french)
  I've been working temp jobs for the past 10 years so I worked for dozens of companies and of the top of my head I can only remember 2 which gave me proper lunch breaks lasting more than 30 minutes.

Also, do you really NEED sleep?
- Yes actually, I think you literally die if you don't sleep long enough. After 72 hours or so you start hallucinating but who knows if those hallucinations affect productivity? Only one way to find out.
  
  Been there, done that. The shadow people are rather distracting.

What about "quiet shitting"?
- No. Assert yourself at work.
  
  The most important thing is to always maintain eye contact!
  
  Sometimes, when i'm shitting at work, i ass-hurt myself.
  So i'm a pretty efficient worker.
- I’m a big fan of “quiet walking my dog during a meeting where I don’t need to talk”
  Note: This only applies to remote work
  
  I just play video games during those meetings.
  There's literally 0 reason for me to be on 50% of the calls I'm invited to (I'm IT and they have me on every dev call)

I take a whole hou- oh wait I'm unemployed
- How do you put up with the constant sexual harassment from your boss?

God forbid we have lifes.

Local office employees donate part of their Krebs cycle to single parent coworkers

So is this referring to their actual lunch break? This feels like satire lol.
- It is satire, yes. Reference is to a recent news article saying workers are taking "quiet vacation" instead of asking for PTO.
  
  I saw a few of them.
  https://fortune.com/2024/05/23/quiet-vacation-millennials-gen-z-harris-poll-remote-work/
  Basically removed because people are working from AirBnbs in locations other than where they live because taking more than 2 vacation days in a row is frowned upon.
  If you don't notice that they are not at home then what does it fucking matter? Unless there are tax implications because they are now spending 51% of their time in Mexico, as long as their are getting their work done that's the important thing.
  
  Thanks! I missed that article. We're at a point where some ridiculous shit is no longer obvious satire lol. Like that really seems like satire, but shit is so crazy these days that I can seenthat being a thing with corporations lol.
- It's obviously satire

Edit: Beat to the punchline.

Quiet nourishing?
You mean lunchtime?
This has to be a joke right?
Next is "quiet bodily purging", aka taking a pee break?
- It's satire buddy, time to log out and go for a walk if you can't tell the difference.
  
  Ah yeah it is - I'm drunk AF from the holiday weekend. Thanks for clarifying that it's a joke.
  
  I'm autistic and sometimes struggle with detecting sarcasm and satire. Occasionally, I miss things others would obviously consider a joke, while at other times I fail to register that something is actually serious.
  Neither of them are super frequent, but compounded with difficulties reading subtle cues and the shame of being called out it's enough to induce some insecurity: How many times have I been wrong and never knew bcause people glossed over it to save me embarrassment or I failed to read their reactions?
  Short of explicitly writing that it's a joke, there's always some insecurity, and particularly since the embarrassment of "I was serious and you've now made a social blunder" is usually worse than the light ribbing of "that was a joke and you're oblivious", it often feels safer to err on the side of caution for me and ask.
  I'm not saying that's the case with the other person (given they already blamed it on inebriation), but it's a possibility that I feel more people should be aware of.
  (It also doesn't help that it's election season here and the streets are lined with the capitalist party's adverts explicitly saying "Finally end this red-green government")
- This has to be a joke right?

Who comes up with these stupid terms? It's TAKING A LUNCH. It's called TAKING A LUNCH. Li k e everybody else, no need for stupid made up terms
- That’s the joke. (They’re mocking “quiet quitting”)
  
  I've never heard that term used before and now that I've looked it up, I feel dirty. What idiots really thought it necessary to come up with a derogatory label for "doing your job"?
  
  It's a joke? Well there's something to be said here if a joke term is able to be mistaken as a real term imo.

- Fuck off.