Quiet Quitting Is the Fakest of Fake Workplace Trends

What I find interesting is that something can suddenly get a lot of media attention once it has a catchy name to describe it, like "quiet quitting".

I suspect it's not a recent phenomenon, just that it was recently given a name that is perfect for attention-grabbing headlines.

It just goes to show you the power of naming things.

I see similarities in this with the accessible naming of recent software vulnerabilities, a la shellshock, rowhammer, and others. I don’t think these would have garnered much coverage in the pop tech press had they been referred to with their CVE designators, CVE-2014-6271 and CVE-2020-10255, respectively.

The naming matters like you said.

https://archive.ph/86CMF

It always was.

This article is from Sep 27, 2022.

Though I wonder if that even makes a difference.

It's prior to the release of ChatGPT, so it's all the way back in the first age of mankind /s.