My team is full of people who can't do the work and somehow, every single one of them survived these layoffs. I know people from other teams who were laid off who are excellent workers with plenty of experience and knowledge under their belts. Knowing all that, I plan to do my bare minimum from here on out. I will refuse to pick up after others and I will only do what I have to. Apparently, being a slacker at Enbridge pays off, so I'm going to jump on that bandwagon.
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"Your statement about why people promote others reeks of sour grapes. Perhaps others don't share your high opinion of you."
I believe you just proved this posters point - if they truly did get high ratings, and were overlooked, then the comments are accurate???
That also points to a management failure - if said employee was not excelling, and given high performance ratings ... then that means managers were shilling themselves as leading high performance teams - to their own benefit.
and news flash - yep, sour grapes lead to 'quiet quitting' - whether you like it or not.
given your response - I would say that fe-----o is strong with you.
Don't give your labour away, that's true. You should act in your own self interest. So if you want to stay in the same role with the same salary, and be dropped rather than repurposed when your role becomes unneeded, then by all means. "Quiet quit" all you like. But if you have any ability to inwardly reflect, you won't complain when people around you advance and you do not.
If you aspire to better, then don't just do your job. Excel at it.
"Diligence and hard work aren't rewarded!" Well, you can't say that for sure. And in my experience it's not generally true.
Corporate executives give themselves large pay increases and share bonuses by exploiting the value of the labour of those below them. If you were paid the full value of your labour there wouldn't be extra money to give to shareholders. Do what you're paid to do and no more. Why would you ever give away more of your labour for free? 'Quiet Quitting' is a buzz phase but essentially, it just means doing your job and no more.
PS. Our execs are also major shareholders. Raising dividends is a way of paying themselves more.
11 promotions is not unusual. Remember that if just one person were to stay an individual contributor for 20 years they probably had 4 promotions in that period. Might be flatter now, but I/II/III/Senior was common for a long time at Enb. I promoted 9 ICs, and two to supervisor.
Your statement about why people promote others reeks of sour grapes. Perhaps others don't share your high opinion of you.
“So either you are different than most corporate managers or you just do like the rest and trade blowjobs for promotions.”
Is there even a slight truth to this or this is just like a metaphor?
Interesting promoted 11 people …. Hmmm
Fair enough - for years I did the whole above and beyond thing - had high performance ratings and I saw promotions to the people - male and female - who give the best blowjobs.
So either you are different than most corporate managers or you just do like the rest and trade blowjobs for promotions.
There's nothing anti-capitalism about providing a strong value proposition for yourself and your labour. You want those ancillary benefits of being valuable? Higher wages, better security, etc..? It doesn't start with you doing the minimum.
If you choose to be a cog and do exactly what a cog needs to do in an organization, no more and no less, then remember that a cog is, by design, completely replaceable, and commoditized.
I promoted 11 people in my career at ENB. Not one of those promotions started with me writing in the justification, "This person does exactly and only what is asked of them, to the minimum necessary." But... in those years between 2015 and 2023 where not everybody received an increase each year... that was the basis for allowing certain people's wages to remain frozen.
So, OP, in other words, nothing is changing since you started?
Stop using the term quiet quitting. It’s anti capitalism.
Capitalism relies on the wage labour model. Doing more than what you are paid for breaks capitalism and creates the problems in the market we are seeing now.
You can’t have businesses running a capitalist model and employees being asked to work like socialists. Coproarstions ahve taken advantage of this far too long.
Nothing wrong with the OP saying. It’s the best way to view employment - maximize effort to outlay pay. Companies don’t like employees using their own strategy against them.
Were I considering who to target for layoff now that the "bulk" part is done (for today), the OP would be top of the list. They self-identify as barely functional, and are lost mostly without discernable impact. Thank you for your service, and don't let the door hit you. Quiet quitting is the fallback position for the discardable.
Ultimately what you have to sell is your time. And your value proposition is the contribution you make in a given quantity of that time. If you decide to crank down your value, then you get to fulfill your own prophecy. No raises, no promotions, no opportunities... and laid off at the first possible opportuity. That's exactly the right thing to happen.
They still offer free coffee
True story. Layoff are not based on talent or performance. You're either lucky or not.
Funny in the sad way but the fellow has a point. I worked in multiple sites at enb, and the reality is untalented ppl are kept, who street up and try to “show initiative “ are let go. So doing bare minimum will ensure that you have a job. If you are enthusiastic then all bets are off… also being non white helps ;), as we leave those alone.
This is why layoff should continue until your slackers team mates gets laid off. What’s new? Enbridge is full of entitled lazy a**.
You should not pick up after others especially if you know that they take a total of 3 hrs break every day and probably still not working even if they’re sitting in front of computer.
Layoffs justified!