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> Quiet quitters have been called slackers and coasters. They’ve set boundaries, demanded work-life balance, and steadfastly stuck to their job descriptions. Bu

> Quiet quitters have been called slackers and coasters. They’ve set boundaries, demanded work-life balance, and steadfastly stuck to their job descriptions. But make no mistake, this isn’t a passing TikTok trend. I fail to see how this is a problem. If you want your employee to do more than what the job description asks of them, or to sacrifice work-life balance you better be ready to pay up, and not with some snacks in the office, but with actual cash.

PenguinCoder 4y ago
The job description the company creates and designs anyway, establishing the pay rate for as it is. The employee gets no say in any of that, other than declining the initial job offer. Pretty damn one sided to start with.
- jackvalentine 4y ago
  In every org I’ve worked at there has been a process for flagging that your job doesn’t match the description anymore and getting the pay rate reassessed. I have several times gotten permanent bumps and market loadings applied to my salary. Note: I am not in the USA.
- _aavaa_ 4y ago
  Hence having even less sympathy for the company when they feel that it's a problem if their employees only do what's in the job description that the company themselves created.
randomcarbloke 4y ago
Which is exactly why the whole concept of “quiet quitting” is nonsense
anenefan 4y ago
In regard to quiet quitting, the term is insincere and probably doesn't reflect changes that have landed at many companies, where basically the top management have decided if they are paying x dollars a day, they want to get every last cent worths out and rather than engage with the work force directly, have headed down a path by applying a formula some bean counter or consultancy firm has helped them forge. Of course having someone constantly busy might seem smart, but if the worker feels they are treated no better than a robot, no time for creative breaks, then pretty soon there's a highly dissatisfied workforce, only those who are working towards (with plans to) the top of the pile are really engaging. It's rare (well for me) to walk into a shop and pay for milk and leave with an extra bonus flavoured milk as well ... or anything else, I get what I pay for. Sometimes people are nice and don't mind if they have time, to thrown in a little extra. As for HR reaching out ... some people don't really express themselves well or have any idea what "normal" should be. There's a big risk bosses like to paint a entirely different normal. The young may not know any better, any one struggling and overwhelmed, couldn't or wouldn't really communicate this. Sadly I was expecting the article to be a POV on those people who quit without fuss or reason.

PenguinCoder 4y ago

The job description the company creates and designs anyway, establishing the pay rate for as it is. The employee gets no say in any of that, other than declining the initial job offer. Pretty damn one sided to start with.

jackvalentine 4y ago
In every org I’ve worked at there has been a process for flagging that your job doesn’t match the description anymore and getting the pay rate reassessed. I have several times gotten permanent bumps and market loadings applied to my salary. Note: I am not in the USA.
_aavaa_ 4y ago
Hence having even less sympathy for the company when they feel that it's a problem if their employees only do what's in the job description that the company themselves created.

randomcarbloke 4y ago

Which is exactly why the whole concept of “quiet quitting” is nonsense

anenefan 4y ago

In regard to quiet quitting, the term is insincere and probably doesn't reflect changes that have landed at many companies, where basically the top management have decided if they are paying x dollars a day, they want to get every last cent worths out and rather than engage with the work force directly, have headed down a path by applying a formula some bean counter or consultancy firm has helped them forge. Of course having someone constantly busy might seem smart, but if the worker feels they are treated no better than a robot, no time for creative breaks, then pretty soon there's a highly dissatisfied workforce, only those who are working towards (with plans to) the top of the pile are really engaging. It's rare (well for me) to walk into a shop and pay for milk and leave with an extra bonus flavoured milk as well ... or anything else, I get what I pay for. Sometimes people are nice and don't mind if they have time, to thrown in a little extra. As for HR reaching out ... some people don't really express themselves well or have any idea what "normal" should be. There's a big risk bosses like to paint a entirely different normal. The young may not know any better, any one struggling and overwhelmed, couldn't or wouldn't really communicate this. Sadly I was expecting the article to be a POV on those people who quit without fuss or reason.