‘Quiet Quitters’ Make Up Half of the US Workforce
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My favorite response is folks instead calling out "quiet firing", which is the majority of jobs where you can never move up beyond a 3% raise if you're lucky.
It’ll probably still work, just with specific demographics.
Manager: "We need to talk about your job performance."
Employee: "Really? I'm performing all the tasks and responsibilities I was hired to do."
Manager: "Well, okay. Those are the minimums, okay?"
Employee: "Okay..."
Manager: "Now, you know it's up to you whether or not you want to just do the bare minimum. Or... well, like Brian, for example, has the responsibilities of a Senior Dev for half the salary. And he has a terrific smile."
Employee: "Okay. So you... you want me to take more responsibilities?"
Manager: "Look, we want you to express yourself, okay? Now if you feel that the bare minimum is enough, then okay. But some people choose to work more and we encourage that, okay? You don't want to be a quiet quitter, do you?"
Employee: "Yeah, yeah."
Manager: "Okay. Great. Great. That's all I ask."
[1] https://www.gallup.com/workplace/398306/quiet-quitting-real....
We should stop using the term "quiet quitting" without also including the phrase "is your patriotic duty".
No. There is no room for a "but" there. Calling people "quitters" for doing their job is ridiculous. If you need your workers to do more than their contract says, change their contract. If they don't want that, pay them more. If you don't want to pay them more money for more work, sucks for you I guess.
> You know what, Stan, if you want me to wear 37 pieces of flair, like your pretty boy over there, Brian, why don't you just make the minimum 37 pieces of flair?
I think this bodes ill for Basic Income --it looks like it totally demotivates people and people are more than willing to "just get by" and then not pursue "their true intellectual pursuits".
What an odd way to say "refusing to do work you're not being compensated to do".
Most people in the vast corporate bureaucracies do very little work. Large groups of people are just absurdly dysfunctional, and when you work at a large company for long enough, you realize it's not worth fighting the culture to try to accomplish ambitious goals.
And you know what? The world keeps turning. Apparently everything is just fine if most people contribute very little at work.
Glad they were willing to put this in writing.
There's no point in managing people if you hate the person and love the worker.
Now using a term that describes someone just doing there job as 'quiting' surely in a lot of jobs, in the capitalist system, the real goal should be as little as you need to do to satisfy the requirement of the role.
This does not mean being lazy, this does not mean not doing work, it means doing your job, doing what you are paid for, but why do anything else unless there is some benefit to you? Either you enjoy it, you learn from it, or you get paid for it, else don't do it.