I know this is the new phrase of the month or whatever but I think some of you are misunderstanding its meaning and taking things too far. The point of quiet quitting is to do your job and just your job. It's not to do barely anything the whole day and have others have to do your job for you. Doing just your job is how things should always be. Letting others do your job is just you being lazy and making life more difficult for your coworkers. Don't be that guy.
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Forget quiet quitting. I recently heard the term quiet firing. Mistreating employees to try and get them fed up to quit without a package. I reported repeated harassment to my managers and was denied a promotion for many years. I keep a record of the bs I've gone through for the day they try to walk me out the door. Records of harassment and discrimination by a few managers. My stories would make your heads spin. I am still here though and outlasted some of them.
@1qwp+1ivIb41t - TRUTH! Been going on for decades. I tried it a couple of times when I was really burned out, but couldn't stomach "doing nothing".
I do my job and meet all deliverables, and am really trying hard to put a full stop at 5pm.
No above and beyond anymore. That is my Quiet Quitting.
I need actual work before I can comment.
Sick of this term. For decades people put in 8 hours, shut down, or left the building, and lived their life. It's not new. Now there's "quiet hiring" where those going above and beyond get rewarded, promoted, etc. How is this new??
I have observed people doing hardly anything to contribute at BofA along time before the term “quiet quitting” came along. People have made careers from it. Why quite when you can do little to nothing and still collect a paycheck?
I’ve already started my quiet quitting and I’ll be actually quitting in a few weeks. I found another job, and I can’t wait to leave this hellhole. All the times I’ve gone above and beyond, and they won’t even let me move departments. So yeah, my days of doing more for this company are over. It got me absolutely nowhere.
“Quiet quitting” is just as bad as “bring your whole self to work” Just another corporate motto. Be on the lookout for a new motto headed to your office soon.
Why would you even go above and beyond when you don’t get treated above and beyond.
First of all, a lot of us have to set boundaries as to what actually “doing our job” means since management has demanded severely unrealistic expectations. The do more with less motto has been stuffed down our throats, while they’ve quietly moved the bar higher and higher without proper compensation. Just because you’ve accepted it doesn’t mean the rest of us have. If you set some boundaries and practiced “quiet quitting” yourself, what someone else doesn’t do wouldn’t effect you. Now if you accept taking on the extra work because someone else isn’t doing it well that’s on you.
Now there’s also a category of folks that are doing everything under the sun to be a “do not meet” in hopes of being next in line to be laid off. They’ve all but literally quit. Maybe you have them confused with people who are “quiet quitting”.