After William Bossy of Anaheim, California, was fired for not getting vaccinated during the so-called ‘pandemic’, he vowed he’d never work for the “man” again. 

“I tried everything to not go back to slaving away,” says the former sousaphone player for his college’s marching band. “Why give your life to a company that is going to dump you for something as trivial and pointless as a vaccine.”

That all changed when Bossy’s girlfriend Kendra got pregnant. William realized he needed to suck it up and get a real job. “I started my new job with the same type of loyalty that I’d given the previous one: long hours, weekends, skipped lunch breaks, even missing my newborn’s first steps and words.” 

But after Bossy was passed up for a promotion at the software engineering firm he worked for, despite checking off all the boxes, he was fed up. 

“I was ready to give up!”

Then Kendra showed him the viral TikTok craze “Lazy Girl Job.” 

A “lazy girl job” is a flexible remote position that’s non-technical, high-paying and doesn’t require extreme effort or difficulty, explains Bossy.

“I was like, yo, can men do this too?” Bossy quit his current job and found a lazy girl job. After only a couple of months he renamed it for the dudes who follow his social feeds: “Bros. Before Workplace-Clothes.” 

Similar to the Lazy Girl Job, Bros. isn’t about Quiet Quitting or the Great Resignation, but rather about finding balance in often toxic workplace expectations. 

Don’t Judge a Book By Its Cover

Social media influencer and self-described anti-work girlboss Gabrielle Judge, who gave rise to the Lazy Girl Job phenom last year, insists it is not about laziness. 

“There’s a lot of jobs out there where you could make, like, $60–80K,” says Judge. “Pretty comfortable salaries [while not doing] that much work and be remote.”

In Bossy’s version, which has embraced young men all over the world, he says you put in an effort and do a good job, but you always sign off at 5 and never answer emails after hours or on weekends. The goal is for people to spend more time with friends and family and less time worrying about team-building meetings and Google Analytics reports. 

Rock and Roll!

“Why make money if you’re not going to enjoy it. Life is too short to break your back for someone else’s dream,” smiles Bossy. 

Although critics of both movements say that it’s creating a generation of workers who are avoiding responsibility, Bossy argues that couldn’t be further from the truth. “I don’t know anyone who wants to wake up at 45 and say where the hell did my life go?”

For employers and HR departments they appear to be pivoting with the new style of worker. “We’ve seen a lot of change in the past 4 years,” adds Anita from a recruiting firm in Chicago. “To stay the course we need to embrace change and let these millennials work in they/their sweat pants if that’s what they/them want.”

And that’s music to Bossy’s ear, as with his newfound free time he’s started an R&B band with other lazy boys appropriately called the Spreadsheets.