Quiet Quitting (not going above and beyond at work)
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Anonymous
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The Today Show did a story covering the online conversations about not going “above and beyond” at work post-pandemic. They’re calling it Quiet Quitting, but it’s not quitting at all…it’s doing your job and just your job. Not doing the jobs of others on top of yours. Having better work/life boundaries.
I feel like we’ve been having these conversations here for a while now. It’s interesting that they are assigning it to younger employees, but I’m solidly Gen X and decided to coast by *just* doing my job after the first six months of working from home when I realized how much time I was spending money n doing more, more, more. Anyone else see the segment? |
Anonymous
I did but they specifically said it was not just younger employees but everyone. I also don't like that doing your job to the letter is called quiet quitting. I don't get it. |
Anonymous
| Most of the hosts were like uh… i always give my all… but Hoda nailed it- you are present 100% wherever you are (at work, with family, in relationships). |
Anonymous
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WSJ wrote about first.
I can relate. I remember the year I got a perfect performance rating but no raise because I was supposedly outside the pay band already. I made a conscious decision to give myself one and stop making extra efforts. That was … 7 or 8 years ago now. |
Anonymous
Coast? Coast? How on the world did you not say slack! We are the slacker generation! |
Anonymous
No slacking is doing bare minimum or less. So many of us gave more than 100%, took it home with us, never turned off and it made it priority… We got burned out. I remember being in my 20/30s doing more more more and looking down on people who stayed at the manager/individual contributor level their whole careers. I didn’t get it. Now I’m older and totally get it, they were coasting, doing a great job but not needing to do more more more. They had a great work life balance. |
Anonymous
| The voluntarily mommy tracked among us are laughing. Welcome to the club. |
Anonymous
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Most of the world isn't Type A
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Anonymous
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I’ve been doing this more.
I get emails about everything because everybody knows I respond quickly and “will take care of it”. But I’ve just been responding. I have Cc:’d X he leads that effort, I’ve added Y to this email they are supervising that area. |
Anonymous
I actually think mommy track is the opposite, over qualified women take jobs below them for flexibility and low stress because they can do the job with their eyes closed and one hand tied. They are actually over competent. |
Anonymous
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I feel like this is very French - do your job, but don’t be defined by it. Take the breaks your entitled to.
It might be present in other cultures, of course. I just know the French one and enjoy emulating it. Remember the memes about American out of office replies (I’m having surgery, but will respond asap) vs French ones (I’m gone for a month)? |
Anonymous
For me it's not stretching for higher level, more challenging and high profile jobs with longer hours and more in person presence required so I can maintain some balance in my SME job that ends at 40 hours. I don't see why this is the opposite, it sounds exactly like "not going above and beyond." |
Anonymous
| “Quiet quitting” is a dumb term that suggests abnegation. I look at the more like recalibrating the work-life balance. Putting more appropriate and balanced amounts of energy into work so that you have something left for the rest of your day. |
Anonymous
It was clearly called “quiet quitting” by corporate media because the idea of workers taking back whatever power, however minimal the effort and trivial the eventual result, is one that terrifies employers and needs to be given a negative connotation. But I don’t think people are so easily manipulated anymore. |
Anonymous
| Agree it’s a stupid term to mean just doing your job. It’s meant to sensationalize and scare workers back to going above and beyond. |