50-year-old employee begins quiet quitting after younger coworkers get promoted above him: 'I stopped trying'

False promises of future promotions can only last so long. Suppose you're someone who has put decades of time and energy into a company and you still haven't gotten the proper validation and acknowledgment for all your hard work. In that case, it's time to start rethinking your relationship to your work.

Unfortunately for this 50-year-old employee, he started to realize that the chatter about "quiet quitting" among his younger, jaded coworkers may have had some validity all along. The good news is that it's never too late to change your life. Here's hoping he found a nice hobby with all this extra time on his hands!

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