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Every time a QQ article shows up on HN the conversation circles around the phrase itself. Questions/statements like "How is doing your job quitting?" and "This is just some nonsense the media cooked up to scare people." I'm not trying to detract from that, but I'd really like to ask about the "Why"; why is this narrative happening now? It is not as if businesses have just now starting trying to get more out of their…
Every time a QQ article shows up on HN the conversation circles around the phrase itself. Questions/statements like "How is doing your job quitting?" and "This is just some nonsense the media cooked up to scare people." I'm not trying to detract from that, but I'd really like to ask about the "Why"; why is this narrative happening now? It is not as if businesses have just now starting trying to get more out of their…
I think that it has a lot to do with the massive resurgence of labor organizing we've seen across the globe; People saw how much bullshit they're forced to deal with while applying for and doing their jobs. Seeing record breaking profits while facing down skyrocketing inflation, in many cases without so much as a COL adjustment, and have had enough. Meanwhile, these companies know, even if they refuse to acknowledge it, that labor creates value; If you can get more value out of something at the same or less cost that makes your bottom line look better, why would they not try and work employees as much as they can for the same price? So now businesses want to make it seem like employees are to blame for refusing to allow themselves to be continually exploited in the same manner, which is why it is framed as 'quiet quitting' instead of 'only doing what they're paid to do'.
I also think that the pandemic/WFH may have given people a reason/time to do some reevaluation of what is important to them, what they want to invest their time into, and what they want to do with their lives generally, and me personally, it isn't to spend my life clicking buttons to make some number somewhere go up.
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Boom. This guy gets it. I have been passed over and screwed over for years. I worked above my level for 2 years without a promotion and a meager bonus. When they finally started talking about a "promotion" it would be a 13% increase in hours for a 7% raise, and higher expectations. They also wouldn't follow their own policies, to my detriment. Basic psychology says I was conditioned to do the minimum because I get tr…
any advice? my manager left 9 months ago and they decided to never backfill so i own basically all of it. granted i don't perform at the level he did but my pay has been stagnant and its always awkward in interviews to talk about projects that are clearly above my job title. they've floated the idea of a title bump/increase pay but it just seems like a carrot to keep me churning.
If you fire me, I'll have a job at your competitor in 24 hours, if not them, then someone else. I have 5 revenue streams deliberately so I cannot be abused by a tyrannical employer.
We can work together, or not, but I'm not sacrificing my heath for your crappy company, it's not 1890 anymore, so get real.
If your business cannot be viable without squeezing employees, then that's not a business I want to exist in this world, so I hope you go bankrupt.
Every time a QQ article shows up on HN the conversation circles around the phrase itself. Questions/statements like "How is doing your job quitting?" and "This is just some nonsense the media cooked up to scare people." I'm not trying to detract from that, but I'd really like to ask about the "Why"; why is this narrative happening now? It is not as if businesses have just now starting trying to get more out of their…
>quiet quitting—that is, doing only what’s in their job descriptions and no more. Yeah, Why would I choose to do additional labor for my employer for free? Is paying the agreed $5 for a $5 item instead of paying $6 'quiet stealing'?