WTH?....We've been doing that for years!............
The saddest sight I've seen is someone who had busted their butt for the company (long hours, sacrifice family life) for years being escorted out of the building after being laid off.
I'm sure Gen-Z has seen their parents, relatives, and family friends laid off after sacrificing for their work.
The two way street deal (employees are loyal to company, company is loyal to employee) is broken. Companies haven't been loyal to their employees for decades.
Now we're seeing the other side of that coin. Employees are no longer loyal to the company.
Truth is, they way you move up the ladder in today's economy is to switch jobs. The days of working your tail off and moving up the ladder in a single company are long gone.
WTH?....We've been doing that for years!............
virtual unionization... lol
General Z has been led to being stupid, by the covid payouts and thinking there is such a thing as free money.
What they will eventually find is all the jobs that can be automated will be so and they won’t have the work experience to get back into the workforce.
“Quiet quitting” should be answered by quiet firing.
From the article: “I do just enough to not get fired or noticed,”
No great revelation to anyone who’s ever seen “Office Space”.
History will record the downfall of sane human civilizations worldwide due to a fictitious Covid19 scare that psychologically mutated on it’s own and ushered in Anti-Christ.
So under performing is a thing now? I suppose with the folks that don’t even want to bother getting a job, employers will hang on to these drags on their business? Weird. Unemployment numbers based on how many file for umemployment is a YUGE false narrative. Nearly everywhere we go there are help wanted signs constantly displayed. Fast food offering $15-17/hr? What?
So they’ll just keep hiring Indians and Chinese who do go above and beyond. Americans will just get the reputation of being lazy.
“I couldn’t care less about what happens to my company,”
Then why should they care about you?
Quiet quitting is a term for being a worthless lazy employee in the private sector when you really need a union job where your quiet quitting will go unnoticed as that is the status quo of the entire workforce.
“I blame this trend on the layoff trend that started in the 1990s and has gotten worse year after year.
The saddest sight I’ve seen is someone who had busted their butt for the company (long hours, sacrifice family life) for years being escorted out of the building after being laid off.
I’m sure Gen-Z has seen their parents, relatives, and family friends laid off after sacrificing for their work. “
I see your point. Gen Z kids are not willing to work their ass off only to be thrown out like yesterday’s trash. They demand respect just like their parents wanted.
You make a strong argument. Like most conflicts there are usually two sides to the story. Many businesses are dysfunctional. It begins with woke and spineless management and extends into HR and Diversity, Inclusion and Equity (DIE) departments. Competence has taken a back seat. It’s not being rewarded, but worse yet incompetence is. So why not do what the incompetent do?
Employers ceased loyalty to employees long ago… so there’s that
The other big part is that it doesn't matter how hard most of Gen Z works, they will never be able to afford anything. The only ones I see, for example, who are able to buy a home in any major metropolitan area are those whose parents are wealthy enough to help them. They can't even afford to rent a decent place without roommates.
There's a forty year trend of forcing US wages down that only reversed in two periods I know of: the 90's boom and Trump's presidency. As long as the current globalist elite is in charge, I don't see that changing.
No one will notice as they weren’t doing anything anyway.
It’s like when they are at home and they refuse to get up off their butt and clean their room or do the dishes, and yet still want you to give them a car and let them watch TV all day...
Only at work.
“Going above and beyond simply meeting the bare minimum requirements of a job has long been the working norm.”
Well, the norm also used to be that you could rely on wages rising faster than inflation, but that has not been the norm for about 50 years now. So if employers want employees to go “above and beyond”, perhaps employers should start doing the “bare minimum” themselves again.
I hope these people use doctors and dentists and auto mechanics and plumbers who also do the minimum to get by.
What a pack of degraded losers. Your integrity to yourself is one of the most important things you can have. You always do the best job you can. F*** a bunch of slackers.
Gen Z is copping on, that's why.