What kind of institutional gaslighting is this?

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• Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  So… Doing your job well is “quiet quitting” now? I don’t want my boss to think I’m quiet quitting, I Guess I’ll have to underperform instead.

  Quiet firing on the other hand is giving raises that are under inflation. Companies should stop this quiet firing shit.

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  • floofloof@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Giving raises? My employer quiet quit that more than a decade ago. Meanwhile inflation and price gouging march on.

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    • brbposting@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      What proportion of people have jumped ship in the last ~8 years as a result? (Understand you could have good reason for sticking around.)

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    • Pohl@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Really? Like you have honestly stayed in a job for ten years without any increase in comp?

      Wages have skyrocketed over the last 3 years and you are still willing to take what you were offered in 2014?

      My instinct is that this is total bullshit but if it is not, please, I’m begging you, go get a new job and pass on anything that isn’t at least 60% more than your current wage.

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  • Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I fail to see how we are responsible for the emotional well being of our management. Did I do my job? Yep! Did I do it well? Yep! Stand and deliver thy raise O manager, or face the wrath of my competing job offer.

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  • Chocrates@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    News organizations have employees as well. It doesn’t surprise me that they are in on the gaslighting.

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    • DudeImMacGyver@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      If they don’t play ball, you think they’ll keep their job?

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  • snooggums@midwest.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It was always a stupid fucking term that equates doing a job with quitting.

    Not increasing pay isn’t quit firing, because there is no firing. It is just businesses being stingy.

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    • then_three_more@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Not increasing pay isn’t quit firing, because there is no firing. It is just businesses being stingy.

      it’s constructive dismissal.

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    • WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Not increasing pay with inflation is a pay cut because your pay is literally worth less without it.

      In a sane world, if the fed is dictating the money supply, with their actions directly impacting inflation, every workers pay should be indexed to inflation. Same goes for taxation, welfare payments, etc. Companies raise their prices regardless.

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    • Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I agree it’s a dumb term, so I made up my own dumb term. (At least I think I made it up)

      Employees are allowed to be just as stingy as businesses.

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  • Kecessa@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Quiet quitting: doing what you’re paid for

    Normal working: doing what you’re paid for but also asking managers for more work when you’re done -> that’s what’s expected from management and also takes some load off their shoulders, they love that

    Over achievement: doing what you’re paid for and more without asking management -> management will promise you a seat at the table of you continue doing that long enough!

    If there’s advancement opportunities try to do the second one until you reach a point where you’re happy and then do the first one :)

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    • Deceptichum@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Hahaha someone’s living in fairy land.

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    • then_three_more@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Tell me you’re 14 and have never worked a day in your life without telling me you’re 14 and have never worked a day in your life.

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    • JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      This person is a manager

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    • uberdroog@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Or crawl so far up management’s ass while throwing all your coworkers under the bus. THAT is how you get ahead. Stepping on your coworkers.

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    • irmoz@reddthat.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I actually thought you were joking until the last paragraph

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  • disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Quiet quitting is the practice of meeting minimum expectations with low moral or engagement. Underperforming could lead to termination for not meeting minimum expectations.

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    • Deceptichum@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Woosh.

      Also quiet quitting isn’t anything except a bullshit term dreamed up by capitalist crybabies.

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    • anarchrist@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Then just make the minimum 30 pieces of flair 🙄

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    • SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The issue many people have is how some bosses redefine underperforming as “not doing enough unpaid overtime”.

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  • HubertManne@kbin.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    this. every so often someone posts an article on how wages are beating inflation and im like. where? who? this is not my experience.

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    • ryathal@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      If you want an inflation beating raise, you need to get a new job. Companies have long since stopped caring about employee retention.

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    • Riven@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Probably if you take an average and include the multimillionaires getting bigger raises.

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  • glimse@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’ve taken a pay cut two years in a row for that reason. Last year was somewhat understandable with the insane inflation but this year kind of stung

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    • boatswain@infosec.pub ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      How is taking a pay cut when there’s massive inflation even remotely understandable? Inflation means that they need to pay you more, not less; your costs are rising.

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    • el_abuelo@lemmy.ml ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Find another job. You’ll quickly find out if you are worth the raise you wanted. My bet is you are.

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  • Empricorn@feddit.nl ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I can’t wait until AI hits these middle managers that were just enough good at their jobs to earn a promotion and now spend their days sending angry emails to the people that actually do the work, while collecting more income than the workers… 🖕

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    • Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      AI’s can do their job right now. Haven’t you ever seen an AI not work right?

      (Most managers suck, I like mine right now, and it’s odd. He’s stuck in meetings all day so I’m not. )

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  • dojan@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    “Quiet quitting” is a bullshit term meaning to do your job but nothing above or beyond that. Joshua Fluke has done multiple videos on this BS, and at this point there are plenty of other idiotic terms thrown around to try and make workers look bad.

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  • wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    stop this

    Bosses everywhere: taking notes “no… more… raises.” sets down the notepad “see, now they are speaking my language!”

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• Nemo@midwest.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I had an employee review with my manager this week, at my request. She told me she wasn’t comfortable uptraining me right now even though they badly need the help in the position I asked to be crosstrained for, because they’d rather hire someone just for the role; but we could talk about it again in two months. After a little digging, I found that (A) they can’t afford to lose me from my lower-paid role and (2) they know I’m looking for another job and don’t want to train me until I demonstrate I’m planning to stay.

  My response is that (A) well you’re definitely gonna lose me now and (2) I’m definitely no longer willing to stay.

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  • Xanis@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Similar situation on my end awhile back. Location had begun losing people. I was in a bottom rung management position, more title than authority, and the team knew it. However, I was also the only manager willing to be consistently on later shifts. Due to pretty intense compartmentalization issues were often isolated and fixed by managers within each department. Except later on at night I was alone with a smaller team. This presented a bit of a situation:

    1. If a problem came up I was expected to text or call a manager. As you can imagine, they did not often reply or pick up.

    2. Many problems require rather immediate solutions.

    3. I wasn’t being trained to receive the skills necessary to deal with many situations so I began enabling key members of the evening team and standing in front of them if mistakes were made, acting as a wall.

    4. Due to all of this, and a lot of work being handled by a smaller team, (and some issues going consistently ignored by senior management) we saw several people leave. In the middle of all this I was isolated and made out to be the reason for some systemic issues, told I could no longer take the initiative to help, and the team caught wind.

    Eventually I began looking for other jobs. When I let my bosses know boy were they surprised. By the time I left one manager had claimed to have started having anxiety attacks during their shift, the whole unreachable during situations thing became a problem for upper, and well…long story short shit and fan began to meet.

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    • KevonLooney@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      1. If a problem came up I was expected to text or call a manager. As you can imagine, they did not often reply or pick up.

      2. Many problems require rather immediate solutions.

      These are not your problems. If management has enacted a procedure that doesn’t work, don’t change it or you will be blamed for any failure.

      Send a few emails to document your opinion that there are problems. Otherwise, do exactly what was recommended. You want the policy to fail. Don’t try to improve it without management support.

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  • chalupapocalypse@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I remember doing self assessments before reviews, I just gave myself 5s because they were going to change everything to 3.5 anyhow unless you invented cold fusion and sucked everyone’s dick

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    • DickFiasco@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Well, Mr Chalupapocalypse, your breakthrough on cold fusion is really profitable for the company, but the VP of marketing was disappointed you didn’t cup his balls during last week’s blowjob session, so…best we can do is a 3.9

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    • discostjohn@programming.dev ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Woah check out this guy’s resume

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  • QuaternionsRock@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    (A)

    (2)

    I do this shit all the time haha

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  • brbposting@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Nice, how did you do your digging? Some key relationships in the company?

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    • Nemo@midwest.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I asked questions during the review. My.manager was evasive but it wasn’t hard to put together. In the restaurant industry, everyone is hiring right now as they expand for patio season. That won’t be the case as much in two months and we both know it; if I’m going to leave it’ll likely be in the next two weeks.

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  • ddkman@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    To be fair (2) is kinda understandable, but this has to be the most incompetent management ever.

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    • PlasticExistence@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Nope. Just standard corporate management.

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    • ZapBeebz_@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      If they communicated better, and offered the training/position/salary increase as incentive to stay, that would (imo) be a better course of action. This just feels rude and incompetent

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    • Nemo@midwest.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      She’s thoroughly mid. She has strengths but connecting with her supervisees is not one of them. I’ve had worse.

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  • ryathal@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Somewhat related, advice about being irreplaceable is bad for this exact reason. The more replaceable you are, the easier to promote you and take longer vacations. Sure you might be able to get fired more easily, but most managers won’t put forth the effort.

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    • Cryophilia@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Not trying to be an asshole, but this is privilege in action. For low paying jobs, managers will fire you at the drop of a hat. Jobs that pay better are more secure.

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  • ikidd@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    At this point, you don’t fucking care. Go to their manager and tell them about it.

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    • Nemo@midwest.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Saving that for my exit interview.

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• Showroom7561@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Doing your job at a high standard is a problem? Who makes this garbage up?

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  • RedditWanderer@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s companies gaslighting us that we are either looking for new roles, or we are working hard to make more money/ask for a raise or else we’ll find a new role.

    Managers see both these things as “not being part of the fam”, but really they just want to take more and give less while playing the victim.

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  • gcheliotis@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yeah I always thought ‘quiet quitters’ referred to people checking out of their jobs emotionally and doing just barely enough to not get fired, so actually underperforming, not because they couldn’t do better but because they stopped caring at some point. In that sense they have already quit, quietly. But now it seems that anyone who doesn’t go above and beyond can be a ‘quiet quitter’? Doesn’t make much sense to me.

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    • PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Nah, quit quitting is just the new term for it. Boomers called it working to the letter of your contract. Quit quitting isn’t doing less than your job duties. It’s simply refusing to bend over backwards and give your employer all of your free time. You don’t take on extra responsibility. You don’t come in early or stay late. You come in on time, do your exact job duties as written, then you go home.

      But this terrifies employers, who have historically relied on manipulation and coercion to get employees to work beyond the scope of what they were hired for. So they’ve started calling it “quit quitting” in an effort to rebrand it as something negative.

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    • SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      They’re just toeing the line for their corporate masters. Capitalists want 150% effort for 100% pay since the profit margin on that extra 50% alone is huge.

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    • stinerman@midwest.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’ve known people who are the best workers on their team, but put in like 40% effort. Does that count as quiet quitting? IDK.

      To be clear, I’m not excusing the article, which is a bad joke. That being said, there are plenty of people out there that are really good at their jobs, but don’t put in full effort. I don’t have a problem with these people at all (really who does 100% effort all of the time?).

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  • aesthelete@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    They don’t just want your work output; they want your soul.

    They want the old days where people were 100% believers in their jobs at places like WeWork, Uber, Tesla, and Facebook…before the general public became disillusioned with tech companies specifically and companies in general more broadly. They want “evangelists” and the belief of the mid-Obama years back…

    The only problem is that many have looked at things over the last ten years and found that the euphoric promises made by the management of companies were lies.

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  • GladiusB@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Because people cannot like you and you still feel obligated to earn your paycheck and you have honor. Unlike the dip shits you are quitting from because they are drunken assholes that can’t see past their whiney little emergencies.

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  • BCsven@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I think it is meant as satire

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• kibiz0r@midwest.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  There’s a great reply to this in the same publication: irishtimes.com/…/quiet-quitters-or-good-workers/

  Sir, – I read with interest Olive Keogh’s article (“Quiet quitting: You always had workers who did 9-5 but it’s a creeping malaise, employers say”, April 25th).

  The article defines working one’s contract hours as a form of quitting, a contortion of fact that I have struggled to grasp since laying eyes on it.

  It is asserted that employees are obliged to put in extra hours, do additional work and recalibrate their work-life balance for the “benefits” of social capital, “wellbeing” and career success.

  I have a novel proposal. Pay employees in actual capital for the additional time they are expected to work.

  Dispense with the relaxation classes on their lunch breaks and the sweet treats and the tokenistic attitude of management to the labour that drives their business.

  Instead, resource staff sufficiently to complete work within business hours, respect the rights of staff to a fulfilling life not defined by their day jobs, and stop using gaslighting terms like “quiet quitting” for fulfilling the terms of their contract of employment.

  This may seem radical to those managers who have been around the block, but KPIs (key performance indicators) don’t spend time with my loved ones nor do they put food on the table. – Yours, etc,

  SHANE FITZPATRICK,

  Dublin 7.

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  • raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That letter is way too polite for the “go fuck yourselves” that I had in mind… I honestly think we should start actually spitting in the faces of managers of that kind that we happen to know in private life, be it family or neighbors, just show them disdain and disgust coming from people whom they have no power over.

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• Son_of_dad@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Unionize people. I joined a union and there’s no “we’re a team” bullshit or the boss going “do me a favor”. 4pm hits, you drop what you’re doing and go home. You get paid for your job, and the union fees are nothing considering the pay is way higher for union workers in my field.

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  • BCsven@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Depends on the Union, sadly. My wife was a Union rep, she had a grievence, the higher up union leaders and the employer met ahead of her scheduled meeting and screwed her over in the grievance meeting. I’m not sure if she was more mad at losing the grievance, or having to pay dues to be screwed by the union.

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  • Boop2133@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    My unionized company changed our mandated hours from 45 hours a week to 50 hours a week like 2 weeks after I joined it was one of the shittiest jobs I ever had. Pay was good but only because I was forced to sit there for 10 hours a day lol

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• PanArab@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  If they are completing their assigned workloads where does the quitting come?

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  • 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.

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  • Socsa@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    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.

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  • Jon_Servo@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The next time they’re denied a raise.

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• Blackmist@feddit.uk ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  “Most people work just hard enough not to get fired and get paid just enough money not to quit.”

  – George Carlin.

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• Deceptichum@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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  • frickineh@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I had basically this exact conversation with my supervisor last week. She was like, “I like to have ___ done by Thursdays,” because I was sick on Thursday and said I’d do it first thing Friday morning. So I said, “Ok, so is the deadline for this task Thursdays then? Because that’s never been communicated to me.” And she said, “Well, I like to have it done by Thursdays.” Holy fuck, JUST TELL ME HOW MANY PIECES OF FLAIR I NEED.

    Anyway, I’m looking for a new job because I can’t work in a place that wants to penalize people for not living up to expectations they didn’t know existed. My entire review (first one in 2 1/2 years) was a series of “Remember this thing from months ago? Well we didn’t like how you did that but we never said anything and just sat on it until now.” Cool, thanks for setting me up to fail, appreciate that.

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  • thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    the manager in that scene is Mike Judge and knowing that makes his bit so much more enjoyable to watch

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• jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  “Jill, I’m afraid we have a problem. Your quality work is very high, as always. But you don’t look enough like your job isn’t soul crushing. I’m not saying you look like you’re bored out of your mind or that I think working here is depriving you of your will to live. I’m just saying that there are times when you’re not smiling like a completely unhinged person and that makes me question whether you really want to be here.”

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• 100_kg_90_de_belin@feddit.it ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  If your business model depends on me doing extra work for free, then you aren’t a great business person

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• blazera@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Shes just working there…menacingly!

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• bcron@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  So, in other words, the boss has nothing to complain about

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• FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  A organized labor gains more steam, this is the kind of bullshit that’s going to be thrust in front of our eyes on the “news” more, and more, and more.

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• Sorgan71@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Gaslighting isn’t real. You sound crazy.

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• PiratePanPan@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Quiet quitting is when I do my work

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• Xerxos@lemmy.ml ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Oh yes. The company where I work at does these performance reviews: doing 100% gives you a ‘C’ (as a grade). I do everything that is expected from me without anything to complain about? Yeah, that’s not good enough.

  Fuck that.

  There is the silent complaint that you could do more… Give up your spare time for your work. Work yourself tired and burn out for your company! That’s what they want to see.

  I’m looking for a new job while I still work there.

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• frippa@lemmy.ml ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  “we have nothing to complain about, but we’ll still complain because fuck the poor, am I right?”

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• reverendsteveii@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  tacit admission that you started a business but you really wanted to start a cult. tell you what: you start paying me as much as you possibly can regardless of our employment agreement, I’ll start working as much as I possibly can regardless of our employment agreement.

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• RagnarokOnline@programming.dev ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  TIL: I’m looking for a job I can Quiet Quit at for the next 20-30 years.

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• Underwaterbob@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  TIL I’ve been a “quiet quitter” my entire life.

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• LostWanderer@lemmynsfw.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  ROFL This is madness! I’d love to know who is behind this push to gaslight people into believing that having a great work/life balance is something to be frowned upon!

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• klisklas@feddit.de ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  So they just work?

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• mrmanager@lemmy.today ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Oh shit, uneasy feelings for managers… :)

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• Ultragigagigantic@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Get a vasectomy. I don’t want to provide more wage slaves to these shitters. Exploited cradle to grave, what a life to leave your children.

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• Thcdenton@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This has gotta be bait. There’s no fuckin way.

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• HawlSera@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  “They asked us to pay them in money and not pizza parties, then the janitor came in and said “Wait you guys are getting Pizza Parties? I can’t even get some cleaning agent to wipe the god damn toilet down properly with, I’ve been spitting on it and waiting for management to notice the smell and order more fucking cleaning agent and they’re just giving you guys free pizza?” it’s a mystery why they keep leaving., maybe we should try putting in an Air Hockey table that they’ll never have long enough breaks to actually us?” - Management

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• Bruncvik@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Irish Times is known for their clickbait articles. Not too long ago, an article that was written just to generate outrage (fake tan is cultural appropriation), was found to be generated by AI, and I wouldn’t be surprised if this was also the case. My advice is to ignore anything Irish Times is writing. (I’ve been living in Ireland for well over a decade, and I learned to regard IT as the low end of the already poor media landscape here.)

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• mechoman444@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  So let me get this straight. People are completing jobs then slow rolling it to the end of the day to turn in those completed jobs so they don’t have to do additional work? Is that correct?

  If someone could clarify what a quit quitter is that would be great.

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• Jaysyn@kbin.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  TIL: I'm quiet quitting.

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• uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Parkinson’s law: Work expands to consume the time available. (1955)

  This is just blaming bureaucratic drift on the workforce. Only in the 2020s (or since the late 1980s) companies abandoned any care or concern for their own workers, and are glad to lay them off during growth to maximize profit.

  The ownership class will tremble something something. We literally have nothing left to lose but our chains.

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