I find it ironic that completely fulfilling your job description has been tagged as "quitting". It's doing your job.
In this era of downsizing and instant layoffs, it's easy to understand how people can become disenchanted with the idea of putting in the extra effort to move up the corporate ladder, only to have the ladder pulled out from under them.
Intel just laid off 15,000 employees. How much did putting in extra effort and long hours help them? Not at all.
I've been in the workforce 50 years. And times have changed.
The most efficient way to move up in the world is to change jobs. Aquire new skills & experience, then leverage that into a new, higher paying, job.
In the last couple of decades, companies (by and large) have stopped internal development. They are just as likely to hire someone off the street. Part of the reason is companies now recognize they often need new blood to shake up the system. So, they often ignore the internal candidates.
I'm sure my take won't be the popular one here, but the days of busting your tail, spending 30 years at a single company, and moving up the ladder are long gone.
Like I said, Intel just laid off 15,000 employees.
Tiktokers invent “screwing off”
My employer is expecting us to do a lot of extra training to “upskill” on dubious things like AI, but not use work time.
It’s a way of getting a lot more “productivity” out of people without any extra pay.
If you take a test, they only pay for a passing score, too.
This may work (no pun intended) at large companies but I suspect it will not work in a small company.
In a large company an employee is just one cog in a big machine and if that cog doesn’t work there is another that will take up the slack.
However in a small company every employee has to do their job or eventually the business will go under (but before that happens there will be some firing and hiring going on).
I’m just learning about this new movement, but it appears to be a method of indirect communication used mostly by women.
The employee has more to lose than the employer, by using this method.
I couldn’t count how many people I’ve known over the decades that simply do their job, nothing else, and go home every day. They’ve got zero interest in working harder or making themselves stand out. This is nothing new.
That being said, I have seen people that put in extra effort be rewarded with extra pay and bonuses. Myself included. It’s led me to get promotions and new, better jobs.
It’s a problem of motivation and satisfaction. The people the stop working immediately when there are breaks or end of the day; just don’t care.
I would look at the job description for the position directly above mine on the company's organization chart. Within 12-18 months of starting in my current position, I would aim to develop the skills I needed to do 50% of that job.
For years, I was promoted faster than anyone else in the company.
sounds typically spiteful, manipulative and post-millenial.
........”The most efficient way to move up in the world is to change jobs. Aquire new skills & experience, then leverage that into a new, higher paying, job.”......
Yes! Which is what I did and it worked well for me. “Leveraging” is key and knowing how to do that.
There are several forces at work to create an atmosphere where “quietly quitting” is a thing. Meritocracy is dead in many companies. Working harder, accomplishing more than your peers, being smarter, faster, better, are no longer key metrics in the advancement/pay calculus. Severance has become standard for many, if not most corporations. In many cases people are OK with taking a nice severance and moving on, which might be the only way they can advance.
After years of working, I found employers no longer have any allegiance with their employees. You’ll be dumped in a second regardless of how hard you work or what you done for the company.
Working in government is a whole different world than private sector. Those in the private sector can be fired for any reason they can come up with. Any reason whatsoever....People in government are amused by that world.
Many managers look at staff as one big blob and become irate when parts of the blob won't work harder to cover for slackers.
I can see both sides of this. I fully expect most will describe the workers here as lazy but so long as they are doing what they’re paid to do and doing a decent job of it then I’d say employers who expect them to take on extra work are being unreasonable. Now if they’re not doing solid work during work hours, that’s a different matter.
If you want to do the same job your entire time at the company, that's fine. But if you have a menial job, let's say flipping burgers, and wish to rise to be manager of the restaurant, just doing your job to the bare minimum isn't going to get you there. Yet here we are, with people in their 30's, 40's and beyond asking "would you like fries with that?" and expecting to be making "head of household" pay.
In the last couple of decades, companies (by and large) have stopped internal development. They are just as likely to hire someone off the street. Part of the reason is companies now recognize they often need new blood to shake up the system. So, they often ignore the internal candidates.
Corporations have always used "churn" to cut dead weight and bring in "new blood" as you wrote. Cutting the bottom 5%-10% (by performance) of your employees has been a common process for many decades. NOT doing so drags down the rest of the workforce. The problem is that without applying meritocracy to that process, you are no longer improving your workforce or productivity, you are just making it more "diverse, equal and inclusive".
Once employers decided employees were simply a cost they could manipulate without commitment nor care, they laid the groundwork for “quiet quitting.”
Per FBN in D.C. only 6% of government workers show up at the office that’s overhead need to get rid of them.
Every new democrat president hires mass amount of useless workers to make it look like he doing something good for labor stats.
I could outwork most around me. DID Accounting. Could do more volume & with better accuracy than others.
Became self-employed in 1980.
HIRED NO OTHERS.
OWN ALL MY REAL ESTATE & VEHICLES. Still can outwork today’s snowflakes.
As for a ‘good reference forward”:
MOST states will not allow a prior employer to badmouth you-—BUT—The prospective NEW employer can ask one direct question that solves all the questions:
“IS THIS PERSON ELIGIBLE FOR REHIRE?”
IF answer is NO-—you have all the info you need.
The Quiet Quitters (QQ) should all become entrepreneurs for businesses that provide goods and services where people can leave reviews on Google about them.
“I went to QQ diner with my family for breakfast and we arrived 5 minutes before opening time at 9am. The toddlers patiently waited 30 minutes foe the place to open because the QQ decided to come in late. Instead of taking our order the first hour they just had a smoke break. I mentioned I was getting hungry and so were the children about an hour into their smoke break at 10:25 and they told me it was not their problem. The electric company rep showed up and told the manager the power was going off because the bill hadn’t been paid. The QQ told them to ask me for money since they didn’t feel lkke paying. I explained that we were just customers & the rep shrugged their shoulders and left. At 10:45 the power went off. At 10:55 the QQ got off their smoke break and mumbled about the power being off. I asked them if we could get our order taken. The QQ said I triggered them and they needed to take the day off. We left. The kids complained that they were still hungry. We tries to find another place to eat but they all had QQ owners & were closed. We decided to have a special fast that day for our family. We found some processed food snacks at home and ate those instead.”
The Quiet Quitters (QQ) should all become entrepreneurs for businesses that provide goods and services where people can leave reviews on Google about them.
“I went to QQ diner with my family for breakfast and we arrived 5 minutes before opening time at 9am. The toddlers patiently waited 30 minutes foe the place to open because the QQ decided to come in late. Instead of taking our order the first hour they just had a smoke break. I mentioned I was getting hungry and so were the children about an hour into their smoke break at 10:25 and they told me it was not their problem. The electric company rep showed up and told the manager the power was going off because the bill hadn’t been paid. The QQ told them to ask me for money since they didn’t feel lkke paying. I explained that we were just customers & the rep shrugged their shoulders and left. At 10:45 the power went off. At 10:55 the QQ got off their smoke break and mumbled about the power being off. I asked them if we could get our order taken. The QQ said I triggered them and they needed to take the day off. We left. The kids complained that they were still hungry. We tries to find another place to eat but they all had QQ owners & were closed. We decided to have a special fast that day for our family. We found some processed food snacks at home and ate those instead.”
Go woke, go broke.