The word uncouth has appeared in 11 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year, including on Dec. 4 in “Public Displays of Resignation: Saying ‘I Quit’ Loud and Proud” by Emma Goldberg:

America’s quitting rate — the percentage of workers voluntarily leaving their jobs — is historically high, reaching 3 percent this fall. It is also exceptionally visible. People are celebrating their resignations in Instagram reels or “QuitToks.” They’re turning to the Reddit forum R/antiwork, where subscriptions ballooned this year, to gloat about being free from their 9-to-5 jobs. They’re tweeting screenshots of texts to their bosses declaring they have quit.

… There once was a time when broadcasting the decision to quit a job might have seemed unwise, or at least uncouth. Career coaches traditionally advised their clients not to disparage former employers online. Though there was always a subset of workers who quit loudly on principle, recruiters often raised their eyebrows at candidates who’d gone public about negative experiences in their previous roles. But after over a year of laboring through a pandemic, protests over racial justice and all the personal and societal tumult that followed those events, some workers are ready to reject stale professional norms and vent.

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