Please explain quiet quitting

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Business owner here and I think it's employees phoning it it. Look when you clock out and you see a mess on your way out you should take an extra hour or two to clean it up. Ok so you're off the clock, big deal. We're a family and we do things to help each other out. No one forces me to throw a once per month pizza party (one slice per employee) but I do it anyways. Also, I'm seeing employees not coming in early and helping to set up before they clock in.

Wrong dude - we are not a family. If I get sick you’re not staying up til 3AM checking my fever. If I can’t work you will fire me.

The entitlement to ask for an ‘extra hour or two’ is why so many young people (by that I mean 40 and under) are burnt out and broke to boot.

DP but I’m amazed how many ppl don’t realize this was a joke. I thought the one slice per person parenthetical pretty much gave it away

Right? PP is very obviously joking.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Business owner here and I think it's employees phoning it it. Look when you clock out and you see a mess on your way out you should take an extra hour or two to clean it up. Ok so you're off the clock, big deal. We're a family and we do things to help each other out. No one forces me to throw a once per month pizza party (one slice per employee) but I do it anyways. Also, I'm seeing employees not coming in early and helping to set up before they clock in.

This seems like such a caricature of themes from r/antiwork that it must be a troll post.

But if not - The biggest red flag to me is when management claims the team is a "family." No, you're not. You pay them to work during agreed upon hours, that's it. And they'd much rather go home on time than get a free slice of pizza once a month. Their time is worth much more than $2 a month.

PP was obvious satire. I mean the 1 slice per person was when they broke the 4th wall.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Business owner here and I think it's employees phoning it it. Look when you clock out and you see a mess on your way out you should take an extra hour or two to clean it up. Ok so you're off the clock, big deal. We're a family and we do things to help each other out. No one forces me to throw a once per month pizza party (one slice per employee) but I do it anyways. Also, I'm seeing employees not coming in early and helping to set up before they clock in.

Shitty trolling attempt.

To repeat a few PPs, satire is not trolling.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Quiet quitting = making dinner, doing laundry, and doing school pickup all on the employer's time. My neighborhood is full of them.

No, that isn't it at all. It means setting boundaries. The term "quiet quitting" is ridiculous.[/quote]

I don't think it is ridiculous at all. It is perfectly exemplified by Peter in Office Space (the movie). The guy couldn't give a sh*t about his menial tasks, but he was definitely promotion material.

Promotion material because he was a tall good looking white male?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I did this once. Just stopped caring, stopped doing anything but the bare minimum. And my ratings went up. It was very illuminating

I also did this once long before quiet quitting was a thing. Unlike PP, I didn't stop caring and did more than the bare minimum, but I stopped going the extra mile most of the time and was sweet as pie. My performance ratings also improved.

[Anonymous]

The sweet as pie thing may work best. And never make suggestions or pointing out how to improve things…

[Anonymous]

Be careful doing the quiet quitting described in these articles. I did it and was promoted soon after I stopped caring. Now I'm in meetings all the time and responsible for teams of people.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Be careful doing the quiet quitting described in these articles. I did it and was promoted soon after I stopped caring. Now I'm in meetings all the time and responsible for teams of people.

It’s very weird, but I have experienced the same. I used to stress out so much and carried a massive mental load at work, do all kinds of things not even remotely in my purview, work outside of normal hours etc and was treated like crap. With my current employer I’m very efficient and friendly but don’t take on too much, and really dedicate myself to impression management. I also don’t take shit from people. My reputation is stellar and I’ve already gotten a huge promotion (one year in).

[Anonymous]

Employees think it’s creating boundaries and not going above and beyond (problem is that boundaries are subjective)
Managers think it’s tantamount to quitting bc it’s basically refusing to do what is asked of the person
So depends who you ask