When you're being quiet fired but you respond by quiet quitting instead of quitting outright, playing a prolonged game of chicken to see which of you or your employer will be the first to flinch.
My employer gave me a 0% pay increase this year while saddling me with new impossible responsibilities in hope of coercing attrition, but I just hunkered down and performed consistently below my competency level, working to rule for my inflation-adjusted salary. This is now a quiet showdown. You can't quiet fire me. I quiet quit!
A famous Slovakian saying. It means, 'to be very quiet'
When a housband comes home drunk, the wife cannot say anything. She has to be quiet like a mouse underneath a scab, or there would be a problem.
A silent fart with paint melting capability.
In eighth grade on burrito day Johnny let out a Quiet Riot that emptied the entire 800 hall.
Quiet retiring is the same as quiet quitting except the individual is working towards retirement and they are tired of putting in all the extra work and getting nothing more or earning anything more. This fall for someone that’s within 1 to 5 years of retirement from there career and even possibly 10 years depending on their job and or age.
Person one: I’ve noticed Paul has been slowing now and just getting by with the workload.
Person two: Yeah, he’s quiet retiring now. He’s just a few years away from the gold watch.
When you don’t stop being alive but you stop “living”
Person 1: bro is John coming to the party?
Person 2: no I think he’s quiet dying
Person 1: oh
Indicating a situation that definitively will not happen, no matter what.
Are you going to run a marathon tomorrow? Nah man, it’s quiet.