The quote: "Quiet quitters are hard to handle because they continue to complete their assigned workload to the same (often high) standard, giving their managers an uneasy feeling but nothing specific to complain about."
Not every boss. I do care about the bottom line, because it's my job to guide the team to efficiency. Most of my employees are solid and make managing easy. Where I make my paycheck is making sure all the customers get their shit during the holidays when they all burn their PTO.
My first reaction to this "quiet quitting" thing was that it's gotta be some sort of parody. Then I remembered the 90s film "Office Space" and Jennifer Aniston as a waitress getting cornered and reprimanded over wearing the minimum amount of flair required as codified by the employee manual, page whatever, article whatever else.
"We're here to have fun! Get a little crazy! Be a team!" - as the original spirit of the thing, which fairly quickly gets hijacked by the first petty tyrant that sees an opportunity to exploit.
And that, kids, is why we can't have nice things. Because one of every four or five of us, turns out to be a petty tyrant first chance they get.
On the internet, any time you're about to call someone out for saying/doing something wrong, I suggest first checking that it isn't just a cultural thing. Those undersea cables stretch pretty far.