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When you have a quiet quitter on your team, it's obvious to the rest of the team that they're carrying that person, and they resent it. They'll claim they're d

When you have a quiet quitter on your team, it's obvious to the rest of the team that they're carrying that person, and they resent it. They'll claim they're doing acceptable work, but only in their own eyes. They invariably have a bad attitude and make work more of a drudgery just by being around. Team morale suffers because of their insufferable selfishness. Everyone has to be a hero in their own narrative, and the quiet quitter is a hero in their own mind by sticking it to the man. What they don't see or care about is the rest of the team.

Viliam1234 4y ago
> When you have a quiet quitter on your team, it's obvious to the rest of the team that they're carrying that person, and they resent it. I have no problem with quiet coworkers. Their salary does not go out of my pocket. In contrast to them, I can appear even more competent. If the team does not meet some arbitrary deadline, it's not my problem -- I can show you the list of Jira tickets that I completed, and it's not my fault that the company decided not to hire more people for the project. I am not in the business of persecuting my fellow human beings. Not because I am an angel, but simply because I literally have no incentive to do so. Hypothetically, suppose that I get super resentful towards a quiet colleague, and I expose his behavior, and I get him fired. Congratulations! What happens next? Most likely, instead of hiring a replacement, the company will simply split that little amount of work he used to do among the remaining team members. Without increasing our salaries, of course. So now I have successfully harmed all team members, including myself. Why would I do that? Also, you often do not know what is happening in your coworkers' private lives. Maybe their parents or their kids are dying of cancer, and they just can't find in themselves the energy for enthusiastic unpaid overtime. Or maybe not, and they are merely exhausted. It's not my business to investigate.
- tomohawk 4y ago
  > quiet coworkers The discussion is actually about "quiet quitters". A totally different thing. > I am not in the business of persecuting Good for you. What does this have to do with the discussion or what I said? > you don't know what is happening in your coworkers lives If you show up an put your shoulder to it like the rest of us, that's all we ask. If you show up but habitually don't put your shoulder into it and everyone else has to continually make up for your slacking, then, guess what will happen?

Viliam1234 4y ago

> When you have a quiet quitter on your team, it's obvious to the rest of the team that they're carrying that person, and they resent it. I have no problem with quiet coworkers. Their salary does not go out of my pocket. In contrast to them, I can appear even more competent. If the team does not meet some arbitrary deadline, it's not my problem -- I can show you the list of Jira tickets that I completed, and it's not my fault that the company decided not to hire more people for the project. I am not in the business of persecuting my fellow human beings. Not because I am an angel, but simply because I literally have no incentive to do so. Hypothetically, suppose that I get super resentful towards a quiet colleague, and I expose his behavior, and I get him fired. Congratulations! What happens next? Most likely, instead of hiring a replacement, the company will simply split that little amount of work he used to do among the remaining team members. Without increasing our salaries, of course. So now I have successfully harmed all team members, including myself. Why would I do that? Also, you often do not know what is happening in your coworkers' private lives. Maybe their parents or their kids are dying of cancer, and they just can't find in themselves the energy for enthusiastic unpaid overtime. Or maybe not, and they are merely exhausted. It's not my business to investigate.

tomohawk 4y ago
> quiet coworkers The discussion is actually about "quiet quitters". A totally different thing. > I am not in the business of persecuting Good for you. What does this have to do with the discussion or what I said? > you don't know what is happening in your coworkers lives If you show up an put your shoulder to it like the rest of us, that's all we ask. If you show up but habitually don't put your shoulder into it and everyone else has to continually make up for your slacking, then, guess what will happen?