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Depends on the company and their culture, I suspect. It's reciprocal. Which came first, chicken or the egg. Someone has to start not caring first.
Posted on 08/24/2022 8:27:24 AM PDT by Brookhaven
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.
They don't. Hence the quiet quitting.
“Then why should they care about you?”
The companies already don’t care about you, whether you work hard or not. That is unless you are lucky enough to work for one of the dwindling number of small businesses that are still operational. Even then they probably can’t afford to care about you very much.
And Americans will be living in tent cities beneath freeway overpasses, while the Indians and Chinese live in lovely hillside homes and gated condos.
It’s like when you have decades of experience, and they usher you out the door to bring in a young kid for half your salary, and expect that he can do the same job.
It’s so satisfying when they call you up 6 months later and beg you to come back and fix the problems this young kid created.
Gen Z is copping on, that's why.
Just wait until the government runs everything. You won't like your job and you may work slowly and unhappily, but your rewards will be commensurate with slave pay.
That is until the government decides it wants you to increase your output. Then you'll learn how a slave master can use pain to motivate you.
But you? You'll perform because you won't remember when things were any different.
The free market system will be a distant memory for a handful of old-timers, but the majority of citizens will just do what is demanded, oblivious to any alternative way of working.
Pump your own gas, auto checkout at the grocery, Cash machines etc.,,etc.,,etc. To say nothing of telephone trees and elevator music forever. "If this is an emergency call 911.' Of course police have been de-funded and there is no one to answer the 911 call.
And your point is?
Hope your bunker is well stocked.
How many police officers, black included, were told they were racist and had charges against rioters dropped by corrupt prosecutors?
They're not "quietly quitting", they're simply no longer going above and beyond for politicians who would see them dead if necessary to promote a socialist agenda.
How many employees are tasked with doing work to cover for token hires?
Worse, the company hires more and more tokens, increasing the workload or competent staff while also ensuring there's less money available for the load carriers.
How many employees are given work outside of normal hours in order to cover for incompetent employees?
Covering in an emergency is one thing, covering as a regular course of business is obscene.
How many employers refuse to hire enough talent and instead accuse the overburdened staff of "quiet quitting"?
Other than government and education, is there any company that's had enough competent staff since 2008?
Bare minimum has always been around. They just gave it a name.
What’s wrong with showing up, doing your job, going home and having a life? I guess for some, the job is their life. For many of us, not so much.
The Road To Serfdom
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QD75lUm51s
Employees would "skate" by doing the absolute minimum required of their jobs. These would also be the same employees that would typically ask their bosses for a "job description" of their title so that they could reject any work assigned to them that did not strictly fall within their job description.
Those employees either didn't last very long or they dead-ended themselves on the career ladder. I actually work with some employees in the latter category, where they have been doing the same job for many years and getting the 2-3% raises each year.
So long as they show up on a regular basis and get the job done, they tend to get unnoticed. Meanwhile, we have enough "go-getters" that go around them on the career ladder by getting promotions and much higher pay.
It's a personal decision I guess. Some people are happy being "drones" that come in and do the same thing day after day at middling pay while never challenging themselves to improve. Others want to do better for themselves so they work hard, go above and beyond their job description, and move up the ladder to much higher compensation.
There's room for both types in the workplace.
Happened to mr. mm.
The fact that this is even considered a phenomenon says something very weird about us. Really people, you don’t owe the job your life.
Doing the minimum or maybe a little less has been around for a while.
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