Why is slacking now cool?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It seems like slacking is the new cool. Even if you put in 40 hours, people don’t understand. Quiet quitting, lazy girl jobs, etc. are now all the rage. People want to count their commute in their 40 hours. People want to sabotage RTO by exaggerating time on in-office conversations, coffee breaks, etc.

Here’s what I don’t understand: all these people are getting paid, so why the bitterness? In fact, most people have received hefty pay increases that well exceed their personal inflation rate. Yet, they seem angry at their employer, their job, and their coworkers. It’s like they expect to be paid and to do nothing. Where did this expectation come from?

We did? With inflation, I have received a pay cut.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It seems like slacking is the new cool. Even if you put in 40 hours, people don’t understand. Quiet quitting, lazy girl jobs, etc. are now all the rage. People want to count their commute in their 40 hours. People want to sabotage RTO by exaggerating time on in-office conversations, coffee breaks, etc.

Here’s what I don’t understand: all these people are getting paid, so why the bitterness? In fact, most people have received hefty pay increases that well exceed their personal inflation rate. Yet, they seem angry at their employer, their job, and their coworkers. It’s like they expect to be paid and to do nothing. Where did this expectation come from?

Chill, grandpa.

[Anonymous]

Because being a victim gives them something to complain about. Sign of a declining society. Sure, call me old and crotchety but something is different. The USA is floundering.

[Anonymous]

A society which could be structured in such a way as to guarantee everyone decent treated is instead designed to funnel maximum resources to the ultra-wealthy at the expense of ordinary people.

So yes, don’t be surprised if people don’t relish their oppression and fight back with whatever weapons they can.

[Anonymous]

I wish slackers did a proper 40 hour week.

My definition of a slacker arrives late leaves early and works like a sloth to low productivity when they do work. They neither fulfil their fair share of the tangible work required ( eg make 10 widgets in an 8 hour shift) but also the intangible soft tasks like answering clients phone calls, liaising with colleagues from other departments, fighting the day to day fires that spring up and boring admin tasks.

These undone work is either dumped on their team or goes undone hurting customer service and or the employer.

[Anonymous]

It’s encouraged by the WFH militants. They all claim it makes them more efficient. But really it’s just to make slacking off easier.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It seems like slacking is the new cool. Even if you put in 40 hours, people don’t understand. Quiet quitting, lazy girl jobs, etc. are now all the rage. People want to count their commute in their 40 hours. People want to sabotage RTO by exaggerating time on in-office conversations, coffee breaks, etc.

Here’s what I don’t understand: all these people are getting paid, so why the bitterness? In fact, most people have received hefty pay increases that well exceed their personal inflation rate. Yet, they seem angry at their employer, their job, and their coworkers. It’s like they expect to be paid and to do nothing. Where did this expectation come from?

Chill, grandpa.

Another ageist response on DCUM from somebody with nothing intelligent to say.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It seems like slacking is the new cool. Even if you put in 40 hours, people don’t understand. Quiet quitting, lazy girl jobs, etc. are now all the rage. People want to count their commute in their 40 hours. People want to sabotage RTO by exaggerating time on in-office conversations, coffee breaks, etc.

Here’s what I don’t understand: all these people are getting paid, so why the bitterness? In fact, most people have received hefty pay increases that well exceed their personal inflation rate. Yet, they seem angry at their employer, their job, and their coworkers. It’s like they expect to be paid and to do nothing. Where did this expectation come from?

Chill, grandpa.

Another ageist response on DCUM from somebody with nothing intelligent to say.

An intelligent response is not needed when the OP is chock full of misguided assumptions.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It’s wage and lifestyle transparency revealed by the internet. We now see so many people who make ridiculous money for nonsense jobs (much of finance, banking, sales) where they are just taking huge rent seeking without actually adding value. And we have a clearer idea of how people got to these positions (LinkedIn, Google, ancestry etc) showing family pedigree, private high schools, etc. very rare to see a small town girl from Iowa killing it at a hedge fund, for example.

Meanwhile, the worker bees now realize that the game is rigged, that the idea of working harder and advancing was a carrot on an ever growing stick. Hard work can help, and is necessary from certain starting positions, but the game is rigged and most people know it more clearly now.

💯

[Anonymous]

Again. The definition of slacker is not doing the job you are getting paid to do. It’s not not going above and beyond. I don’t expect colleagues on my team to go above and beyond I expect that being in a team of 4 that all of us will compleat an even 25% of the total work expected to us as a team. I don’t want to have to carry anyones ass and for them to take credit for my work.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It’s wage and lifestyle transparency revealed by the internet. We now see so many people who make ridiculous money for nonsense jobs (much of finance, banking, sales) where they are just taking huge rent seeking without actually adding value. And we have a clearer idea of how people got to these positions (LinkedIn, Google, ancestry etc) showing family pedigree, private high schools, etc. very rare to see a small town girl from Iowa killing it at a hedge fund, for example.

Meanwhile, the worker bees now realize that the game is rigged, that the idea of working harder and advancing was a carrot on an ever growing stick. Hard work can help, and is necessary from certain starting positions, but the game is rigged and most people know it more clearly now.

+1 When wealth distribution looks more like a banana republic than than a twenty first century democracy, don’t be shocked when people do the bare minimum

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Because being a victim gives them something to complain about. Sign of a declining society. Sure, call me old and crotchety but something is different. The USA is floundering.

You're the one complaining and being a victim.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It’s encouraged by the WFH militants. They all claim it makes them more efficient. But really it’s just to make slacking off easier.

Porque no los dos?

[Anonymous]

When I was in the office, I saw a lot of slacking among senior staff. Lunches, coffees, chit-chatting, all in the guise of work. It was face time so maybe you don’t think of it as slacking?

I am senior staff too, so I’m not really criticizing anyone. I just think it would be healthier for everyone if we didn’t let work expand to fill so many hours.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What is up with all these bootlickers raging vs how the younger generations want a greater work life balance?

I guess we should walk in two feet of snow, too…because if you had it bad, we need to have it bad as well.

Why the rage? You’re being paid. In what world is working for a wage a bootlicker? Do you believe you should get a wage with no work? Has your employer mistreated somehow?

Why the rage? Employer is getting enough value they they choose to continue paying. In what world is doing the job to employer's satisfaction slacking? Do you believe they should get more work for no more pay? Has the employee mistreated them somehow?