Please stop posting about your lazy girl job.
I just got off the phone with a huge media outlet that we're working on a very big
story about lazy girl jobs, and they told me something.
I have been told that some people are getting in trouble at their job because
they're talking about the lazy girl job.
Let's get some stuff straight.
Lazy girl job does not mean that you're being lazy, it is no dig on women,
it's not you being lazy or being a jerk at your job.
If you have a lazy girl job or you want one, I love you so much, and
you come talk to me about it.
Do not, do not get in trouble for social media posts because of all this.
>> Speaker 2: Her name's Gabrielle Judge?
Okay, I'll hit her up later.
Anyway, so, >> [LAUGH] No, boo.
>> Apparently, TikTokers are warning users not to post videos about what's been
dubbed lazy girl jobs for fear that their employers might catch on to those posts
and they could potentially get in trouble, reprimanded, maybe even fired.
So, first, more about this TikTok trend.
So, Gabrielle Judge, who's a 26 year old and
self-described Anti Work Girlboss, coined the term lazy girl job in May.
She's even launched a Lazy Girl Job Bootcamp, charging $39 for
a program that teaches people how to use ChatGPT to streamline the resume and
cover letter writing process.
And she has a lot of followers, 133,000 to be specific.
Now, at its core,
this trend isn't about bragging that you don't do your job adequately.
Judge has made several videos on the subject explaining what the term actually
means.
So let's take a look at her explanation, and then I'll fill you in.
>> Speaker 1: In a perfect world, we would have meaningful work.
In a perfect world, we would be really, really excited to go to work.
In a perfect world, we'd love our bosses and
really enjoy showing up into the office every day, right?
We would all love to do that.
Unfortunately, that's just not possible anymore.
Any news coverage that I see about the lazy girl job,
trying to misrepresent it and make it seem like we're just choosing to do this.
We're doing this out of survival,
it's not a lot of career growth opportunities anymore.
Pay raises are very hard to find these days, especially significant
ones that are actually competitive to the rate of inflation.
And our employers want us to do so
much extra work these days without being compensated.
So when that happens, it leaves employees in this tough situation.
It's like, do I say no to that extra work?
And then there's some type of retaliation that comes out of that,
making my job harder to do, my life harder to be excited about?
Or do I just say, yes, work that extra two hours to get it all done, and slowly, and
slowly, and slowly have my work life balance completely taken away from me?
>> Speaker 2: Okay, so, look there's a lot I agree with in that video.
>> Speaker 3: Not me.
>> Speaker 2: Okay, there's a lot I disagree with, too.
So it's interesting that you say that cuz I didn't know how you felt about it.
>> Speaker 3: Hate it.
>> Speaker 2: So look, what she says about inflation and the economic situation, and
she didn't compare it to what it used to be like, lt's say the golden economic
era in America, around the starting in the 70s, things really started to fall off.
She didn't make that point specifically, but
she complained about some of the economic stressors that we discuss on the show.
What I didn't like about that video is the kind of defeatist attitude.
Because I really do think, especially right now in a tight labor market,
if you're a go getter and you wanna build an incredible career for yourself,
just try to shed that mentality of, it's not going to work, I'm not gonna succeed.
If you start off with that mentality, it will be a self-fulfilling prophecy.
>> Speaker 3: Yeah, so look, I'm gonna call BS on all of it.
I think this is just total excuse for nonsense laziness, but,
hold on, but I'm going to be fair.
I know why it's happening, it's an overreaction to corporate abuses.
So corporations don't care about you and they pretend they do and
it's gaslighting and it drives people crazy.
And are there companies that are super strict and drive their employees crazy?
Yes.
Are there companies that push them to the brink,
like Amazon does with their workers?
Yes, right?
There's tons of real abuse, well, crying wolf is not gonna help, and
I think this is crying wolf.
Because if she said and this whole phenomenon was around, hey,
they're paying me for 40 hours, but they would expect me to work 60 or 80 hours.
Okay, I hear you, sister, then I'm 100% on your side.
But no, they're constantly bragging about working 20 hours or
10 hours when they're getting paid for 40.
That ain't it, that's just you being lazy.
It's in the title, Lazy Girl.
So I didn't make up that title, you did.
[LAUGH] I mean, it doesn't get any more showing your hand than that.
So why am I particularly upset about that.
Now, people say, hey, you run TYT, and so as a boss or a CEO, you're upset.
Well, there's some truth to that, for sure,
and I'm being straightforward with you about that.
But guys, as a person who runs the company,
I can tell you what happens when someone doesn't do their work.
>> Speaker 2: It breeds a lot of resentment.
>> Speaker 3: Well, first of all, that's true too, but more importantly,
I don't go in and do the work.
I can't, I already work 80 hours a week.
The person next to them has to pick up the slack and do the work.
So now all of a sudden, that person's working so
much harder cuz you decide to be a lazy girl.
>> And it breeds resentment.
>> And that breeds resentment.
That isn't fair, and I'm not buying it.
And I know I'm being too serious about, like, a QC Tic TAC thing, but
it's a phenomenon.
This quiet, quitting, lazy girl like, ha ha, let's screw over the big boss man.
And, okay, number one, that's not great either, it depends on your boss, though,
and it depends on your corporation, I get that, right?
But you're not really screwing them over,
you're screwing over the person next to you.
>> Speaker 2: Yeah, I definitely agree with that,
cuz someone else is going to pick up the slack, and that person doesn't deserve to
work even harder because someone else is skirting their responsibilities at work.
>> Speaker 3: I got to say two more things about that.
Having run a company now for 21 years, okay,
it's super unfair to the hardest working people at the company,
cuz the hardest working people at the company always pick up the slack.
They are always there, and they always pick it up.
Now, in our case, I noticed that, and I reward people, right?
And, I mean, this company's got tons of women that have risen up the ranks,
not just Ana that you see on air, who started as a part time producer and
worked her way up to executive producer and boss of this show,
our head of programming, our head of marketing, etc, they all rose up.
They're all really hard workers, and they're amazing at their jobs, but it's
not fair to pile everything on top of them because someone wanted to be a lazy girl.
>> Speaker 2: All right, here now,
[LAUGH] I feel bad reading about the lazy girls and what they're bragging about.
>> [LAUGH] >> Speaker 3: No, give them [INAUDIBLE]
>> Speaker 2: All right, and by the way,
this is across many careers and jobs, including, like,
hotel sale coordinators, accountants, and also operations analysts.
So many clips feature short snippets of the person working as they
explain why their work is so easy to do.
In one video, a creator said all she does during the day is copy and
paste the same emails and take three to four calls a day.
Another TikTok or bragged that her workplace has no dress code and
lets her leave whenever she finishes her work for the day.
Why are you guys your own worst enemies?
What are you doing?
>> [LAUGH] >> Speaker 3: Yeah,
why are you telling on yourself?
>> Speaker 3: Why are you doing- >> And then, look,
coming back to the original point where the original lazy girl panics and goes,
don't do the videos.
She's totally right, I mean, if I saw that, I'd be like, okay,
took a note on that one, apparently, you're not doing any work at all.
And by the way, guys, there's other things, too.
People have real issues at work, and they have real mental health issues, stress,
tons of things.
And there's real reasons why somebody might not be able to get to 40 hours
a week, right?
And now this then clouds the issue so you can't tell who's got a real issue and
who's bragging about being a lazy girl.
>> Yeah.
>> It's a disaster.
I know I've ruined the perfectly fun story.
>> No, no, you didn't.
Look, I think that where you work and how you're treated at work really matters,
because you get respect when you give respect.
And I'm saying that specifically to the employers.
I feel respected here, I feel that you trust me if I have ideas I'm heard.
So when I feel respected, then I actually respect the workplace,
I respect my boss, all of that.
But if you're treated like crap, then you're not really invested in the place of
work, and it's just a paycheck for you.
So I just wanna make that point because I understand that perspective as well, and
I have work jobs like that.
Before working at TYT, I was at CBS Radio, hated that job.
Did not feel respected, did not respect that place.
>> Speaker 3: I wanna say one other thing because I don't want people to get
the wrong idea.
They called it lazy girls, but trust me, that there's tons of lazy boys,
too, right?
>> Speaker 2: Naughty, naughty, lazy, >> [LAUGH]
>> Boys, absolutely.
>> Speaker 3: And not just the recliners.
>> Speaker 2: [LAUGH] >> Okay, so
mostly the term refers to medial office jobs as opposed to the service industry.
And that's the other distinction that's important to make.
People working in the service industry bust their asses.
>> For sure, there's so many jobs where they don't have a choice at all, and
they get ground up.
And the service jobs get ground up more because you see it, hey,
there's a waiter, and there's a quota, and there's this, there's that.
Office jobs are easier to cheat at, so
the folks with the better jobs get to cheat more and that also drives me crazy.
>> Speaker 2: And finally, the data shows that the so
called lazy girl attitude is shared by a lot of younger workers, all right?
So just 49% of Gen Z say work is central to their identity in
comparison with 62% of millennials.
But I think there's a difference there specifically because
of what older millennials like myself got to experience as opposed
to younger generations like Gen Z.
I do remember a time in America when things were better.
I remember what America was like pre 911.
And so when you experience things that are relatively good in the country,
you still have this hope within you that it could improve,
it could get to a better place, right?
If you grew up in the post 911 era when things just persistently got worse,
you're less, I don't know, motivated.
I don't wanna be defeatist in what I'm saying here, but
you might feel a sense of hopelessness.
You get what I'm saying? >> Speaker 3: No, I do,
as long as you're not couching it in, ha ha,
let's screw over our coworkers, [LAUGH] right?
For all the points that they're making about how disastrous the job market is for
millennials, wages are lower than they used to be, you can't possibly afford
a house, you're saddled with student debt, all those are super legitimate.
And by the way, if you don't wanna make work the central part of your life,
you do, you boo.
I mean, you put in your actual time and you work hard, then you got every right to
leave at 40 hours and do whatever you're gonna do and have the time of your life.
So let's all be fair to one another, and then, yeah,
let's go solve those bigger problems that are very real together.
>> Speaker 2: Now, Gabrielle Judge later just encourages all the proud lazy girls
out there to just stop posting about it cuz you're gonna get in trouble.
And that's it, that was her word of advice.