to basically quit working while still remaining at work because you don't agree with the way things are being handled or just because you don't care anymore. Staying on break permanently due to protest without actually going on strike.
Josh: Dude, why are you just sitting there playing Tetris on your computer when you're supposed to be working.
Paul: Because Mike told me to do something I don't want to do. I am commencing Operation Shutdown.
When a human being or creature is in a state of nothingness. The individual has lost all train of thought and is completely useless. A victim of shutdown cannot think, has no motor skills, appearing to be much like a pilon. Shutdown is often caused after a day of vigorous activity, or simply from being lazy.
This means someone is a skid and should shut up (aka script kiddie). They are bratty kids that get enraged over the internet. To express their anger they normally become shitty “hackers.” By “hacking,” it actually means copying scripts from the internet to try to hit people offline. Most of the time, they will beg others for help because skids don’t know anything about running scripts. In the end they get hacked because they downloaded viruses. They generally commit suicide within a year of becoming a skid.