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> They were compensated toward the top of market (considering all tech companies) while they were employed. Yea but no. This isn’t about Amazon, it’s about bus
by vineyardmike 4y ago
> They were compensated toward the top of market (considering all tech companies) while they were employed.
Yea but no. This isn’t about Amazon, it’s about business culture writ large. Also not everyone at Amazon is a software engineer, and therefore it paid crazy amounts.
> When some “quiet quits” it’s usually their peers who pay the price because the absentee coworker isn’t get their part of the team project done
Quiet quitting is simply doing your job but not being a “try-hard” and not trying to get ahead or go above-and-beyond. It’s a lack of loyalty and treating your job as a trade of exactly 8hrs with a paycheck. If your coworker wasn’t doing their work, they didn’t quiet quit.
> It’s the coworkers who bear the brunt.
Sounds like a manager (company) treating workers poorly. If a factory had people quit and expected everyone else work extra hours, it’d be a labor violation. If they’re doing that to knowledge workers we say it’s laziness?
Conversely, if you had a coworker who worked 8 hours a day, did their job, and didn’t try to give extra, you shouldn’t fall behind unless management had exploitative expectations.
(Source: I have a soul and work. Managers tried to make me suffer greatly at times).
- bumby 4y ago>If a factory had people quit and expected everyone else work extra hours Extra hours to cover is fairly common in factory work. What differentiated it in my experience is there was a union to ensure people were adequately compensated for overtime.
- andreareina 4y agoAnd that means that companies are incentivised to hire adequately. Whereas companies see no immediate (and attributable, this is important) problems when exempt employees are pushed to work overtime.
- bumby 4y agoEhh…from my experience, overtime was the rule, not the exception so I don’t know how strong that incentive was.