Comment on What kind of institutional gaslighting is this?
PanArab@lemm.ee 6 months ago
If they are completing their assigned workloads where does the quitting come?
The idea is that they complete tasks ahead of schedule and then slow play results to the predetermined deadlines. It’s hilarious to me that people are saying this is a genZ thing, since this shit has been going on in tech fields forever. Literally everyone I have ever known has taken “working vacations” by pretending some work is taking longer than it really is.
Bonus points if you are smart enough to still turn it in a day early to keep the heat low.
It used to be called “looking busy” and people have been doing it ever since working at a job was a thing.
And thus is my greatest weakness cause I hate being bored so if I run out of work I look for more.
Get a second job. Start a hobby. Start your own side gig.
If you just do extra work for the megacorp for no extra compensation, then they’re just using you.
Yep just me doing extra work for no salary… well. I dunno. Company just implemented a new bonus structure based on the hours you record per project. I know it’s just so they can see who’s underperformed to fire, but I might get quarterly bonuses now for working longer hours.
The next time they’re denied a raise.
Seasoned_Greetings@lemm.ee 6 months ago
Quiet quitting has always referred to the extra bullshit that employers pressure employees into doing.
In America we’ve created this work culture that implies you aren’t really part of a team unless you are constantly putting forth more than what the employer is paying you for.
The undertone of this headline is that managers feel uneasy because so-called “quiet quitters” won’t take on extra work or hours or exhibit overwhelming enthusiasm, but just do literally what they have to at a passable or high quality.
The gaslighting part is that those workers aren’t doing anything wrong, but they aren’t bending over backwards so corporate America wants to paint the picture that those workers are awful time thieves instead of just burnt out wage slaves.
GrymEdm@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I hear some countries in Asia are CRAZY bad for these kind of expectations and have been for a long time.
Seasoned_Greetings@lemm.ee 6 months ago
Oh absolutely. In Japan for example if you are unable to work or you get removed from your career, it is socially understandable for you to consider suicide. Lots of Japanese citizens put their job before even their families or the potential of having a family.
It’s actually pretty fuckin crazy what Japanese work culture does to their citizens.
reverendsteveii@lemm.ee 6 months ago
I’ve been reading Graeber’s Bullshit Jobs and evidently they don’t fire people in Japan. If they want rid of you, they just give you less and less to do until you’re sitting in the office all day getting paid to do nothing, and the cultural expectation is that you quit out of shame rather than just accepting money for nothing.
Rolive@discuss.tchncs.de 6 months ago
Geez… how about my workload drops to zero and I commit sudoku instead?
Drusas@kbin.run 6 months ago
Look up China's 669 practice. South Korea is also known for having an especially brutal work culture. The two manage to make even Japan's work culture look almost reasonable by comparison (Japan famously requiring long hours and lifelong dedication to your employer).