WTF is quiet quitting (and why is Gen Z doing it)?

Worklife News ^ | 8-9-22 | Cloey Callahan

[Brookhaven]

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.

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.

[Red Badger]

WTH?....We've been doing that for years!............

[Gene Eric]

virtual unionization... lol

[Jonty30]

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.

[fwdude]

“Quiet quitting” should be answered by quiet firing.

[Stosh]

From the article: “I do just enough to not get fired or noticed,”

No great revelation to anyone who’s ever seen “Office Space”.

[knarf]

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.

[rktman]

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?

[dfwgator]

So they’ll just keep hiring Indians and Chinese who do go above and beyond. Americans will just get the reputation of being lazy.

[Huskrrrr]

“I couldn’t care less about what happens to my company,”

Then why should they care about you?

[1Old Pro]

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.

[Retrofitted]

Gen-X used to call this "checking out": you do the exactly what you were hired to do and not a bit more or less. "Above and beyond" doesn't exist because the company doesn't deserve it.

I've been doing this most of my life after I worked way too many corporate gigs. I discovered early on that managers may sometimes be worth my loyalty, but companies never are. And yep, that way of thinking for me started in the '90s (shortly to be followed by the magic words of "work to rule" and "go slow", both of which Gen-Z is also discovering).

[Morgana]

“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.

[Big Red Badger]

Melding you to together,,,
Yuppers.

[Morgana]

Indians mostly own their own businesses and the Chinese are in the hot seat right now so not so much.

[ConservativeInPA]

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?

[aMorePerfectUnion]

Employers ceased loyalty to employees long ago… so there’s that

[pierrem15]

I think the precariousness of employment as you mention is a big part of it.

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.

[BuddhaBrown]

Doesn’t have the same ring as the prior generation:

Tune In
Turn On
Drop Out

[Don Corleone]

No one will notice as they weren’t doing anything anyway.