QUIET QUITTING: Why Gen Z’s latest trend is setting it up for failure.

Real wages are falling. Housing, groceries, gas and other necessities are increasingly unaffordable, thanks to inflation. And the economy has been mediocre at best and calamitous at worst in the early years of this generation’s careers.

All that said, “quiet quitting” is a terrible idea that’s only going to leave these young people much, much worse off. We’re in a recession, by the conventional definition, and while jobs numbers remain strong, it sure looks like that could change. Soon. And when it does, guess who’ll be the first name management picks for layoffs?

That’s right: the “quiet quitters” who racked up TikTok views by not only slacking at work and doing the bare minimum but bragging about it extremely publicly.

As always, life imitates the earlier, funnier seasons of The Simpsons: “Lisa, if you don’t like your job you don’t strike; you just go in every day and do it really half-assed — that’s the American way!”