Twitter whistleblower fallout, the debate over student loans and quiet quitting, explained

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“Nightcap’s” Jon Sarlin talks with CNN's Clare Duffy about what’s next for Twitter after a former executive’s explosive allegations. Plus, The Washington Post’s Catherine Rampell shares why she’s not a fan of President Biden’s student loan forgiveness plan. And CNN’s Allison Morrow explains why quiet quitting isn’t really about quitting.
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    2. It was debated in Congress – the laws used to do so were passed in ’03, when Republicans controlled Congress.

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    1. @Yarbob Yarbob not if twitter keeps being shady. And if twitter is 15 or 20 percent bots its not worth 44 billion.

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  4. Just so you know, “explained” and “indoctrinated” are not the same thing…

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  5. Again, there’s no such thing as “Quiet Quitting”. This is just called working. This is how a job works, and has worked, for many decades now, if not longer.

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  6. I thought it was called “work/life balance” or at least that’s what we’ve been calling this exact thing for more than a decade.
    It much more fun though to repurpose an old idea with a new name to get views on the internet.

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  7. Intresting I decided to quite quit before I knew the term. I was always the employee who went above and beyond but my company proved they didn’t appreciate me or frankly gave a fux about me. I was home sick with covid couldn’t breathe and they attempted to discredit me saying my symptoms were not bad and they attempted to deny my covid time. After that I lost trust faith and respect for my job

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  10. If You want to run “top fuel” dragsters for go cart pay expect that the people whose souls you are crushing are going to revolt in one form or another.

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  11. Quiet Quitting. We literally rephrase “ I hate my Job” and now are creating a whole topic to distract you from real problems

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  12. Despite the economic downturn, I’m happy ☺️. I have been earning $60,200 returns from my $10,000 investment every 13 days

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  13. Quiet quitting is a made up derogatory term for employers whining that the employees won’t do free work anymore.
    When an employer continually makes higher demands from you but hasn’t given you a raise in a long time what should we call that? Quiet firing?

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  14. Interesting to have student loan forgiveness and “quiet quitting” in the same segment. Especially comments using the word grift about student loan forgiveness. Call me old, I was taught an honest day’s pay for an honest day’s work. What I saw in that Office Space clip was not “quiet quitting” as I understand the term, but grifting – not giving an honest day’s work for what a person in a white collar office job is most likely getting as arguably honest pay, or at least a mutually agreed upon contractual amount. (Yeah, I’m a killjoy.) The employee who comes into work late, but gets paid for that time, as well as the time spent taking an immediate hour break at his desk, and who probably takes a lunch with some extra paid time around the state and federally recognized 30 minutes the employer is not obligated to pay, plus probably leaving early and getting paid for that time as well, is bilking the company, not quietly quitting. Quietly quitting appears to me to be more like, the job description says the job is 0900-1730 (8 hours paid, plus 30-minute lunch uninterrupted by work responsibilities and unpaid) Monday-Friday, not 0845-1800, and working through lunch, even if the employer pays for the 30 minutes that was supposed to be lunch, plus coming in on weekends when the boss demands, even if the employer pays overtime as also state and federally mandated. Not doing the job at all and getting paid for it is not quietly quitting. That’s grounds for termination. Quiet quitting is making the employer respect the mutually agreed upon terms of employment, for example, with regard to hours expected to work. At least that’s what I got from the TikTok clip.

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    2. You lack understanding of the term and the reasons behind it. No one talking about slackers . Stereotype much?

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  15. The twitter whistleblower, Mudge, has been a pillar of ethical leadership in the computer security community for over 20 years – he and the rest of l0pht testified before Congress circa ’98, and marked a pivot in the way both government and industry approached cybersecurity.

    Twitter is trying to attack his reputation and credibility, and it is absolutely the least well-thought-out idea I’ve heard in ages. I hope people take his concerns seriously – it wasn’t really about any of the suggestions I’ve seen in the comments here, it was more him grabbing the batsignal as a last-ditch effort because it seemed the CEO was intentionally lying to and misleading the rest of the board.

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  16. I will say that if the CEO makes the changes we are hearing on line as to be moving to the right, then you lose a lot of people. We want facts and not republican talking points. Getting rid of Brian was a mistake, and now the talk of Acosta and Lemon and going the way of a FOX news propaganda format will not fly. So long CNN.

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  18. When I got Out of high school I wanted to serve my country went in for four years did very well but with the G.I. Bill I still didn’t have enough money to go to college with my family being poor so I would like my 10,000

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  19. So,since I payed for my 3 kids and my college out of my own pocket,now I get to pay for everyone else’s; looks like I should be able to write everyone off on my taxes and get reimbursed for all my college and $10000 each for my kids college.I was a public servant for 13 years.

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    2. So you spell it “payed” but want us to believe you went to college? The US education system must be terrible…

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