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Quit-Tok: Why young workers are refusing to leave their jobs quietly
Videos of people resigning or being made redundant are going viral on social media in a bid for workplace transparency.
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Gen Z workers are posting videos of online calls in which they resign or are made redundant on social media sites such as TikTok.
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Josh Gabert-Doyon and Daniel Thomas
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Ms Gabrielle Judge’s job at a tech company did not end with a whimper, or with a bang, but with a video. It captured a gruelling, and in her words “cringe”, performance review meeting during which she told her managers she was leaving.
Ms Judge, who had been doing the job alongside a part-time career as a content creator, posted a truncated version of the online meeting on social media under the moniker “Anti Work Girlboss”. The aim, she says, was to show viewers she had walked away from the low-pressure and relatively well-paid role after her employer began laying off her team and giving her extra tasks.
