Quiet Quitting. Only do the Bare Minimum at Work.

[snoopy7548]

BS. "Only doing the bare minimum" is doing what you're paid to do.

 

[igor_kavinski]

There are some great articles on workplace dynamics at the www.rachelbythebay.com blog. She's worked at Facebook and Google. She mentions how she would come to her job at some "servers for rent" type of company in the night shift and tickets would be piled up mountain high. Then both she and her co-worker would work together to clear the backlog. They would come next night and again same pile up. Seems the morning shift were either too green or had become dependent on the night shift to do most of the work. She didn't mind it too much as she liked the challenge.

The real fun she had at Facebook, where her supervisor apparently gave her a bad review because "she was helping others". He wrote in her review that she needed to focus more on her own work rather than go around looking for anyone who could use her help. She would do that only after she had nothing left to do but apparently, being helpful is not part of Facebook culture so she left.

 

[Fritzo]

It's a bs term coined up by businesses to keep people working imo

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I left my last position of 17 years due to "quiet firing." Add on mental abuse and off I went

 

[KMFJD]

Saw this reply about 'Quite Quitting'

-I’m not quiet quitting, I’m simply performing at the market level which corresponds with my compensation. It’s not up to me, blame the market.

 

[igor_kavinski]

I’m not quiet quitting, I’m simply performing at the market level which corresponds with my compensation. It’s not up to me, blame the market.

Employers shouldn't get anything above what they deserve.

 

[JEDI]

I stopped being "loyal" to my job when my software solution to a problem allowed my company to make $1.8 million in a single year and all I got was a laughably small "reward". The problem was Excel sheets that needed to be manually formatted by staff to be input into the system. It took six people working from 8 A.M. to 11 P.M. to manage to get 50 files into the system. That's how bad the Excel cell formatting issue was.

My solution was to create a form which would output an XML file which I converted to an Excel file with the correct formatting already applied, using my rudimentary knowledge of C and an Excel library. I also created an intranet using CGI and C later to do away with the form so users could enter data directly on a web page. Suddenly, a single person was able to input 300 files into the system. What did I get for my ingenuity? A measly $5000. The programming experience was pure fun and joy for me but the payoff just killed any desire to pursue it further.

6people costs $1.8M?!

 

[JEDI]

i worked 12 to 18 hour last week because i'm a winner

fixed.
aspire to it?/

 

[igor_kavinski]

6people costs $1.8M?!

Nope. The company was able to handle more customers. If the solution hadn't been developed, they would have been forced to hire a dozen more (maybe even more) employees or risk losing customers to competitors.

 

[DigDog]

I dont know if you know, but elsewhere around the world, it's not common for salaries to be re-adjusted yearly. Not weird for someone to work 10 years on the same exact salary, excluding any promotion, that is.

1. yes, we are aware inflation exists
2. no, we're not gonna do anything about it

one of the disadvantages of working in a country that has a more efficient government, is that the government is expected to do things that aren't real, like, combat inflation. It doesnt happen, it never has.

 

[brianmanahan]

fixed.
aspire to it?/

i'm a winner according to the bobby bare definition