The "Quiet Quitting" Myth Is Toxic for Tech
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The "Quiet Quitting" Myth Is Toxic for Tech
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#3Idk what engineer gets paid 300k outside of giant tech companies and overvalued startups.
I’m sure that level of pay doesn’t have many coasters.
At $150k, I was coasting at a large company for a few years, but it wasn’t like I did _nothing_. I did my sprint work as assigned within the sprint.
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#4My understanding of the term "quiet quitting" isn't that people doing that are avoiding doing any work, it's that they are only doing what is expected of them and not going above and beyond.
With that definition, there's nothing unsavory about it.
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#5Quiet quitting also known as gaslighting your employees for simply doing their job, and not overworking. Oh, Jimmy clocked out at 5pm like his contract said he could? Quiet quitter. Bob didn't stay online on the weekend to discuss sprint plans? Quiet quitter. The level of emotional abuse that many companies get away with baffles me. So many of them systematically destroy your confidence and brainwash you into thinking that being a slave is somehow a noble life, and how to best serve your master is something we should all strive towards.
They want you to make your job your entire identity to imprison you further and have even more mental leverage to treat you like trash. We are a family, of course, but only when it suits them, otherwise you are a quiet quitter, and despite record profits, we simply don't have the budget for a raise Janet!
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#6Quiet quitting also known as gaslighting your employees for simply doing their job, and not overworking. Oh, Jimmy clocked out at 5pm like his contract said he could? Quiet quitter. Bob didn't stay online on the weekend to discuss sprint plans? Quiet quitter. The level of emotional abuse that many companies get away with baffles me. So many of them systematically destroy your confidence and brainwash you into thinkin…
It is unfair to generalize because not all companies do that, but the ones which do that should be shamed publicly.
Actually when I think of that, it would be the only good use of LinkedIn.
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#7My understanding of the term "quiet quitting" isn't that people doing that are avoiding doing any work, it's that they are only doing what is expected of them and not going above and beyond. With that definition, there's nothing unsavory about it.
The unsavory aspect is equating doing your job with quitting. It's completely upside down.
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#8Pop culture is weird. Click bait becomes engrained in the zeitgeist.
Nothing new about doing the bare minimum to get paid at a job while quietly searching for a new job.
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#9 It's not that I'm lazy, it's that I just don't care. It's a problem of motivation. If I work my ass off and Initech ships a few extra units, I don't see another dime. So what am I working for? My only real motivation is not to be hassled; that, and the fear of losing my job. But you know, Bob, that will only make someone work just hard enough not to get fired. -- Office Space
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#10My understanding of the term "quiet quitting" isn't that people doing that are avoiding doing any work, it's that they are only doing what is expected of them and not going above and beyond. With that definition, there's nothing unsavory about it.
"You're expected to go above and beyond"
therefore...
It's turtles all the way down...