Rage Apply?

From the stable of talent that brought you “the Great Resignation,” the “rage quit“, “quiet quitting” and “the Sunday scaries” (i.e. the obsolete Boomer media seizing on Gen-Z chit-chat, magnifying it for a readership of tutting and furrowed-browed dads) comes the “Rage Apply.”

Forbes says:

Feeling overlooked, unappreciated, passed over for a promotion and unfairly compensated has inspired a new career trend on TikTok. “Rage applying” to jobs is being touted on the social media platform as a great way to get even with your mean boss

And as Urban Dictionary puts it:

Applying to new jobs at different companies when you are fed up at your current job.

[e.g.] I’m rage applying to new jobs because I’m angry at my boss or coworker.

So… applying for a new job when you don’t like your current one?

Isn’t that just basic self determination within a free market system? Hasn’t that always existed?

If you don’t like your job, you can try and find a new one. It’s probably the least radical, least critical, least boat-rocking thing a person can do, aside from just suffering through it. Right?

Leave the kids alone, Forbes. In this case, they’re not questioning the work ethic or trying to smash the system. Bloody hell.

Being able to leave is a worker’s readiest magic bullet, especially when the possibility of a strike is under threat.

It’s not about “getting even” with a “mean boss” (well, except when it is). It’s basic mobility. It’s barely even Escapology.

Rage apply? Rage apply? It isn’t anything. Fuck you, Forbes.

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For ideas on how to escape, try I’m Out (formerly published as Escape Everything!) and for a shoulder to cry on, try The Good Life for Wage Slaves.