This week’s Notes from the Wreckage is about how employers invented the idea of “Quiet Quitting” to continue propping up their exploitative nonsense. It’s not a think piece, it’s a warning.

This week, I’m not sugarcoating a damn thing. I’m dragging the corporate gaslighting into the light and asking the question no one wants to answer: What if the disengaged workers aren’t the problem? What if they’re the only ones paying attention?

This week, I talk about:

– The cult of overwork that disguises exploitation as excellence
– The “loyalists” who sell out for pizza parties and LinkedIn kudos
– The scabs who cross picket lines for performative benefits that hurt us all
– Why employee disengagement is grief, not laziness
– The betrayal of neurodivergent and marginalized employees in workplaces that weaponize “inclusion” as optics, not practice
– The scorched-earth reality of being the only one who spoke up, and the silence that follows

This isn’t about just “quiet quitting.” It’s about invisible labor, psychological abuse, and the rot behind polished mission statements.

It’s about the performance of inclusion without the protection, and how we’re taught that sacrificing your health is noble and asking for dignity is dramatic.

If you’ve ever been the only person telling the truth in a room full of careerist cowards…this one’s for you.

Read it now.

(As always, NftW is published first to my LinkedIn every Monday, and then reshared in full here later in the week.)