Matt Walsh Reacts To People Being Losers On TikTok

00:00: Where do you work, Peter?

00:02: It doesn't really matter.

00:04: I don't like my job and I don't think I'm going to go anymore.

00:08: Well, our culture is the most popular pastime, as we know, is complaining, especially about stress.

00:14: Now, we're stressed out.

00:15: Our second favorite hobby is to come up with trendy new labels for common human experiences.

00:21: What if we could whine about our stressful lives while also inventing a new label for something people have always done?

00:27: That would be the modern dream.

00:30: That's the holy grail.

00:31: And that's what brings us to the hot new trend called quiet quitting.

00:35: This is a major topic conversation on TikTok, especially where people are too burned out

00:39: to do their jobs, but not too burned out to record TikTok videos talking about how burned out they are.

00:44: So here's one viral TikTok video giving more details about this revolutionary new concept.

00:51: Everybody's talking about quiet quitting and how it's the new negative talent crisis.

00:57: I think it's a good thing.

00:58: The youngest generations at work

01:00: are rejecting the idea of hustle culture

01:03: or framing your entire life around some dream job.

01:06: With quiet quitting, you're doing what you're paid for and not more.

01:12: And it's about setting boundaries.

01:14: I see this as a healthy evolution that can actually equalize the employee employer relationship more.

01:21: First of all, doing the bare minimum at work

01:24: is not some unique quirky new approach to life.

01:27: We don't need a label for it.

01:29: It's called lazy.

01:30: You're lazy and you're stupid.

01:32: Second, if you wanna do the bare minimum, that's fine.

01:36: That's mediocrity.

01:38: If you wanna live a mediocre life, you're welcome to it.

01:41: Cut your mouth, you mediocre clarinet player.

01:45: Mediocre?

01:46: Many people before you have chosen that path

01:48: and many people after you will do the same.

01:50: That's why it's mediocrity.

01:51: And if you're doing the bare minimum at work,

01:54: Refusing to go above and beyond

01:56: and not pursuing anything else notable with your life,

01:58: then you will be unsuccessful and again mediocre.

02:02: We do the bare minimum, sometimes people die.

02:04: You will not flourish financially or in any other way.

02:08: Being lazy will extract a payment

02:10: from you whether you like it or not.

02:12: And what you are giving up in exchange for ease of life

02:15: is any chance of doing anything notable, interesting or great with your life.

02:19: You in a chosen one.

02:21: Because the notable, interesting and great things

02:23: done by people who give more of themselves than is required. You'll be quite quite

02:28: or find, don't come around later complaining about your lack of success. Don't become

02:32: envious of the people more successful than you. You wanted to quiet quit, okay? You wanted

02:37: to put in less effort, you aimed low and you got what you wanted. You have no right to

02:41: resent people who aimed higher than you.

02:43: Third and final point, related to the first two points. I am not suggesting that you should

02:46: stay forever in a job you hate pouring yourself into it year after miserable year. If you hate

02:51: your job and you feel unfulfilled by it. If you feel that it's not making use of your

02:56: talents, if you think it's a dead end, etc. Then go chase something better. If you just

03:00: don't want to work at all, then you're a lazy, overgrown child. As long as you maintain

03:06: that attitude, you're destined as previously discussed to be a mediocre failure and a

03:10: disgrace and embarrassment to your family and never want to know you. But if you're willing

03:14: to work and yet you feel that your work right now is wasted or futile or pointless, then

03:18: and go and pursue a new opportunity.

03:20: What matters is whether you're doing work that is meaningful to you

03:24: and which utilizes your talent, skills, and efforts.

03:27: And it's a lot better than being a lazy bum, also known as a quiet quitter.

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04:15: And now the makers of Quiet Quitting are back with a new hit called, hashtag, act your wage.

04:21: This is another viral trend, which is essentially the same thing as Quiet Quitting,

04:24: sort of taken the Marvel approach where the sequel is a carbon copy of the original,

04:28: the act your wage trend, which has taken off on TikTok,

04:32: is apparently best explained by this viral video, which has millions of views, from TikTok user, Sarai Marie.

04:38: Let's take a look.

04:40: Do you even know how to do your job?

04:42: I don't understand what...

04:45: Hey Veronica, I'm gonna have you take this home and work on it tonight, okay?

04:48: Respectfully Susan, I'd rather spend time with my family.

04:53: Veronica, did you just decline the Zoom meeting? That's at 630 tonight?

04:57: Oh, yeah, I did. I did do that. Yeah, because it's outside of my working hours, 9-5.

05:01: So, I won't be attending.

05:02: All right Veronica, I do need you to be available during your vacation, okay?

05:06: I'm a dark smile friend.

05:10: I've come to talk with you again.

05:13: Okay Veronica, I'm gonna need you to complete all of this today.

05:16: Susan, do I look like two people to you?

05:18: No.

05:19: Oh, okay, just making sure.

05:21: Because that looks like the work of two people, right?

05:23: And I'm one, I'm just one person, right?

05:26: And it's time to go home, five o'clock.

05:32: I think you, bye.

05:33: It would appear that acting your wage means being so grating and annoying and shrill

05:39: that you end up sitting alone in an empty corner of the office because everybody else has jumped out the window.

05:49: Now, we should first note here as we did with the quiet quitting trend.

05:52: That proponents of this approach do in theory make a couple of valid points.

05:57: So it's true that you should have a life outside of work.

06:01: It's also true that you need to know how to set boundaries.

06:04: Not just at work, but in general, so you don't get taken advantage of.

06:07: But both of these potential positives are ultimately neutralized because for one thing,

06:10: there is no real value in ensuring that you have extra time outside of work if you aren't

06:14: going to spend that extra time doing something enriching and worthwhile.

06:18: I am not chugging beer.

06:20: I'm sampling a flight of gluten-free German loggers with a French wine pairing.

06:24: So most of these people will just go home and scroll through TikTok.

06:27: That's how they're spending that extra time.

06:29: Who's my princess?

06:31: Who's the most?

06:33: What the fuck is this?

06:34: We heard in the video that Veronica wanted to spend more time with her family, but the

06:37: problem is that these days, most people in their 20s don't have families.

06:41: So by family, they really mean they're couched their phone and their HBO Max subscription.

06:45: Second, setting boundaries is important, but in the adult world, you need to know how

06:50: to do that with a certain amount of tact and diplomacy.

06:53: We call this a diplomatic solution?

06:55: No.

06:56: I call it aggressive negotiations.

06:57: What the videos recommending is that employees act like a bunch of spoiled toddlers, turning

07:01: up the smarmy level to 100, screeching like overgrown bats, and acting offended that their

07:07: boss would even ask them to do a little bit extra.

07:09: See, you can't, so much have to understand, kids, you cannot talk to your boss that way.

07:14: You might wish that you could, but you can't.

07:16: What the hell is wrong with you people?

07:18: And if you've made yourself expendable, that's going to be a problem for you.

07:21: And making yourself expendable, it's certainly one way to approach life.

07:24: The other way to approach it is to strive to be indispensable, but that takes effort and it takes talent.

07:31: And here's an important point.

07:32: It takes time.

07:33: But here's the good news.

07:34: If you're a younger person and you're just starting out in your career, the deck has been cleared.

07:39: Okay, many of your peers are settling for mediocrity already.

07:43: They haven't even tried yet and they've decided there's no point in trying.

07:47: This is an opportunity for you if you're not one of those people.

07:51: As long as you have slightly more fortitude and a slightly better work ethic, then all

07:56: those other losers, you have an opportunity, and that'll do it for today. that's midnight.