Calling It Quiet Quitting Is Victim Blaming

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4. About forty-five years ago, I worked for an AM-FM combination.

It was located in Waterloo, Iowa, but owned by a broadcasting company headquartered in Charlotte, NC. I don’t know if it was the home office who came up with the idea, or the nitwit who was the local GM, but somebody got the idea that the employees were shirking, and decided the solution was a time clock.

We were to clock in and clock out so they knew to the minute how long we were working. So we did. And suddenly, they were paying overtime to virtually everybody. That would never do, so a memo came out that we were to clock in and out exactly when our shift was scheduled to start and end. And then return to finish the task you had going on when you stopped to go to the time clock.

In other words, go back to giving us free work, but don’t record it. With memo in hand, it was pointed out that this was illegal. The time clock promptly vanished. Soon thereafter, so did the nit wit GM, whose idea I believe prompted the whole thing.