In the news lately, the quiet quitting trend - is it just me or does this sound like the healthy European way of treating your job? Not as an all-consuming trap like Americans, but as a vehicle that allows you to earn the money you need to enjoy your life and family time?
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I guess people would rather they be loud about it.
If you burn bridges, it comes back to haunt you at some point. The working world is smaller than you think and people move around.
This "quiet quitting" is real. Never had a term for it, but it makes sense. People bust their a55e5 and get a poor review anyway, or worse see somebody else who is a worse performer get rewarded more just because of who the manager likes or doesn't like.
Why go through all the effort? If you already know that going "above and beyond" isn't going to be rewarded, then why put forth the extra effort.
I'm a high-performer who has decided that "meets" is good enough. Pi-5 on them......
IHaving lived in Japan for many years, in Japan, the words "lay off" do NOT even exist.
It is unheard of to lay off anyone. When one person fails, we all fail. That's the mindset of the corporations in Japan. Never in one's wildest dreams would foreign workers displace Japanese.
In the USA, anything goes as long as you can make a buck. Look at young people who removed their clothes and do all sorts of things on the computer for buck bc the US system failed. Enjoy those uniquely American stupe dent loans...
Best part is doing your own taxes in the failed state.
Having to either hire an accoutnant/CPA or pay for some computer program to file your own annual/quarterly taxes thanks to US lobbyists from for profit tax crapliance industries that make us to do this nonsense.
Other countries and areas inc EU, the govt does it for you and it's far less complicated. Bc that's what govts are supposed to do--to help their citizens.
In the cesspool US, Complicated=$$$ for corporations.
That's another hundreds or thousands $ each year for this redundant american garbage.
Also, real employment rights, tax paid university, employment agreements, real pensions NOT 401k self funded gimmicks, real health care, paid time off for life events including funerals, child care, elderly parent care, university send offs for your children, etc..etc..etc..etc..
In the dog sh$t us empire, you get war. and war and war and military bases and war.
Oh, and empty promises of someday
I left my 23 year career at Wells Fargo last Fall. At my going away Happy Hour - and believe me, I was happy as s#it - nobody said they were thrilled to still be working for Wells Fargo. All of them said something like “I wish I could do the same.” See, everyone is either trying to finish their careers and retire OR are hoping for a layoff and an excuse to make a jump, but only if they get the boot. WF has run off or fired the employees who actually cared. Nobody is really happy to work there except for over-paid spineless middle managers who are yes-men for Scharf & his diversity hired incompetent staff.
@1gtt. The “high taxes” pays for the national health care that you pay through the eyeballs here for. Have you thought of that or are you just quoting your faux talking points again.
Not to mention the companies actually take care of their employees instead of driving them hard until they are done with them and throw them away.
In Japan for example, when they build a plant overseas, they hire local talent and not one person loses a job back home. How interesting the difference.
@1deq
Australia != Europe, learn some geography my friend. It was not long ago i was walking down George Street to work, i lived and worked there for a number of years. Not sure how your friends got jobs there, lots of young people from the EU show up to pick fruit. And your confused, salaries are decent and similar to the US but not because people don't give a care in the world about leaving their job, the pay is good because there's 20 million people in a vast area with a treasure chest of resources. They're also a lot more selective in who they let into their country unlike the US which has millions from the 3rd world storming the borders and making taxpayers foot the bill. When read d-mb posts suggesting we be more like the EU i say great go for it, move there, enjoy the low pay and high taxes. Been there done that, God Bless America.
@1cha is delusional propaganda. I know of multiple people who left the USA for Australia because it was easier to make more money.
One of the reasons i like working here is they give me 28 days off a year +2 floaters + like 8 days vacation + 2 days to donate time.. and i work 7-8 hours a day with reasonable stress and make great money. I can see any doctor i want like next day, got beaches, mountains, a nice 401k etc.. Every time i go to the EU more than half are disgruntled about life, who cheating their country men, and money matters, they talk about non stop like they're on their last quarters. They work hard to, like 12 hour days and get paid like 30K a year. They're jealous of Americans for having so much wealth. The reason they might be so easy going about quitting is they don't make anything. Me, I'm freaking proud to be American and so very happy to be born here and getting paid large sums of money for my efforts. This country is freaking awesome.
It called "Meets."
Welcome to what I figured out in 2003.
At least EU is not issuing H1-B and OPT for China.
Then American student and parents cannot find jobs and pay off loans?
So, we need to forgive loans.
Why is that no one reports the paradox.
@ktj+1i3xC1zO Thanks for checking in SvB!
Being from the EU myself i don't hold the systems over there in high regard. My country had around 20% unemployment, most the younger generation lived with their parents and had a hard time finding any job at all, wages that are 1/4 what they are in the states. Americans have shifted to a socialist mindset and have had very little experience in seeing the negative outcomes.
It’s real folks it’s real. This is the anti capitalism generation that is savvy enough to navigate information online. It’s gonna be interesting how a company like wells who thrives on stretch opportunities reacts to a generation who wants to literally just do their job
Having unmotivated or lackluster employees is one of the biggest issues on the minds of leaders in organizations everywhere. Worse is when they begin to do the bare minimum of their work.
Now, it seems, this has become one of the biggest issues on the minds of Gen Zers, the newest entrants to the workforce. The young workers have a different name for not answering work emails at night, forgoing any working weekends, or declining to volunteer for challenging projects: quiet quitting.
The concept is having a moment with young workers thanks to a video posted on the social media network TikTok in late July. In the 17-second video, which had been viewed 2.6 million times in the week after it was posted, a young man is sitting in a New York City subway station endorsing the concept of quiet quitting. “You are still performing your duties but you’re no longer subscribing to the hustle culture mentality that work has to be your life,” the man says.