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Cry me a river. I personally love to work more than 40 hours a week (simply because if I’m immersed in a topic I just like thinking about it more) but will neve
by ramraj07 4y ago
Cry me a river. I personally love to work more than 40 hours a week (simply because if I’m immersed in a topic I just like thinking about it more) but will never for a moment judge or question a colleague for “quiet quitting” so to speak. You do you buddy, you owe nothing to this company or any work ethic.
- downboots 4y ago"My mother, drunk or sober" "Who am I to judge?"
- x0054 4y agoI am the same way, when I am compensated accordingly. And when I am not, my mind drifts to other things. It’s like manic :)
- myself248 4y agoYeah, that term is such crap. I've heard "rational disengagement" and find it much more descriptive.
- idontwantthis 4y agoI like to call it “doing the job I’m paid to do”.
- swader999 4y agoI like that term. Caring too much is just as bad. You become a pita to work with and you can't relax and remain objective about things.
- nmeofthestate 4y agoThere's an established term for it: "work to rule". It involves following the rules set down in your contract. It's a form of industrial action below eg striking.
- nprateem 4y agoThat's when you actively draw attention to the fact you're not doing anything more than in your contract.
- nmeofthestate 4y agoNonetheless, it's instructive to highlight that people are doing the same thing: ie "simply doing my job" or "forcing management to the negotiating table by doing something that both sides acknowledge is unsustainable for the smooth working of the business"
- Too 4y agoHaving a quiet quitter on your team is one of the most demoralizing things you can experience at work. No, i don't expect anyone to work overtime or go out of their ways to solve impossible deadlines. But someone who normally is capable, but constantly slip on easy assignments, delivering just enough to not raise managers eyebrows, abuse "work" from home and leave unfinished tasks for the rest of the team to clean up, clock-in but take a 3h lunch, etc, it's just depressing and toxic. Even if you enjoy your own role. Such behavior easily spread to the rest, that then also become complacent - Why clean up from others that have a good time at home? If someone wants to work less than 5 days a week, fine by me, just make that expectation very clear instead of allowing quiet quitting, not just between manager and employee, but also to the rest of the peers, to not raise any such bitter or envy.
- ramraj07 4y agoThat’s not quite quitting, that’s just a lousy coworker. Every definition of quiet quitting is that you do the minimum requirements of the job and that’s it. This doesn’t mean you secretly play hooky with work or actively slipping on whatever easy assignments you talk about. Also why haven’t you fired them? If your team is unable to see that this person is deadweight why are you still in such a crappy team?
- Too 4y agoOk, the spectrum is of course very wide. Usually defined more mildly than I expected, after reading more about it. Sounds like normal work life balance of leaving on time, nothing that needed a new catch-phrase? Maybe this is more rare for Americans? And yes, the offenders were eventually fired for this. Drawing the line of how far it can go can be tough, post above is obviously exaggerated and more an accumulation of multiple smaller situations at different assignments.
- andoryuu 4y ago> nothing that needed a new catch-phrase Of course it didn't. But how else would the "why do you ask for more pay when I ask for more work" managers shame their workers into unpaid overtimes?