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[–] Jaysyn@kbin.social 31 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] Neato@ttrpg.network 14 points 6 months ago (5 children)

We're all quiet quitting on this blessed day.

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[–] mechoman444@lemmy.world 27 points 6 months ago (13 children)

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.

[–] BlueMagma@sh.itjust.works 27 points 6 months ago

My understanding is the following: In companies, it is assumed that employees will try to reach for the promotion, getting a higher position for a higher pay. Managers have been trained to use that to push people to do more than what is strictly required of them, letting people think that's how they'll progress their career. Quiet quitter are people that simply stopped aiming for the promotion, they do what their job entail and that's it, no more trying to get more, no extra, no internal politics. They don'tgive a fuck about all this, all they wantis the paycheck and to enjoy their life away from all this non-sense.

They pinned the term quiet quitter, because this is usually the behavior of an employee that is about to quit the company for another position elsewhere, except quiet quitter don't plan on quitting.

[–] Inucune@lemmy.world 21 points 6 months ago

It is a term for people who do their job, but don't do extra work for free. They are not in violation of their contract.

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[–] Ultragigagigantic@lemmy.world 25 points 6 months ago (3 children)

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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[–] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 25 points 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.

[–] EdibleFriend@lemmy.world 19 points 6 months ago

I wanna punch Olive.

[–] TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 18 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Funny and strange that the article came from The Irish Times. I live in Ireland, and foreign nationals love to work here because of more laidback working culture. This is not "quiet quitting" in the Irish context, it's "as long as all your work is done, you can do whatever the fuck you want."

I have culture shock hearing from others who worked abroad and say how toxic the work environments are in some places. I had co-workers from Spain and Portugal say you can get pressured to work on weekends, or do tasks outside of working hours. Verbal abuse and shouting also happens more frequently.

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[–] Mango@lemmy.world 15 points 6 months ago

Bro, what can I even say to this??! 😂

[–] derpgon@programming.dev 15 points 6 months ago

I love the desperate calls. But not instantly, you get them like a week later, every single time. Sometimes they schedule a super important meeting where they HAVE TO talk to you and just cancel it a day or two before it because they realize it's futile.

[–] bquintb@midwest.social 13 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (3 children)
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[–] griD@feddit.de 13 points 6 months ago

Not astonishing, as it is in line with THE major belief of conservatives, i.e. a person's status in live determines their worth and character traits.

As an employee you are a bad person. Simple as.

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