The fact it’s even called “quiet quitting” is gaslighting. If you want 50, 60 hours of work out of your employees, then pay them for 50-60 hours of work. Companies refuse to raise salaries to match inflation then complain when employees won’t give them free after-hours labor.
Exactly, productivity doesn't correlate with greater rewards for the worker, only the employer. 4 decades of stagnant wages despite unprecedented productivity, and the employers are crying that people are suddenly no longer motivated to go above and beyond. Does the employer ever go above and beyond for the worker? No. It's a rigged game and people are sick of it.
Exactly, they want you to work for free aka slave work. Some of us actually try to learn a new skill outside of the day job and don't like ppl wasting their time. If you can't get the workload done in the allotted 40hrs a week then that means you need to hire more workers -and I stand by that. If you have someone constantly working 50-60 hrs then that mean you have the work of 1.5 employees so you need to hire a gaht dang intern for that extra 10-20hr of extra time if the work doesn't justify hiring a new reg worker bc someone at the top is collecting on that extra 10-20hr of free work that you are generating.
I used to work a job where I honestly gave 120% everyday. When Covid happened,I was working 15-17 hours a day making sure we were always ahead of the work flow. When raise time came around, my manager explained that the “top performer” raise was unobtainable because perfect people don’t exist, and I got the same raise that my coworkers who only did their 8 hours got. That was one of the most disheartening lessons that I ever learned. I’m now that guy that warns new people against going above and beyond, to me quiet quitting is the epitome of working smarter not harder.
I agree. I've done so much overtime and have never been told thanks. Never received any recognition for the good work I do. I recently had a situation where I decided to make a smart decision. It's not part of my job but I did it because I thought it might be a good idea. Unexpectedly, there was a problem and, thanks to the work I had done, it was solved in an hour when it could have been a huge thing that went on for weeks. No one even said thank you. Whenever i have a review with my manager, we just focus on whether I have met my KPIs, nothing extra. So why would I do extra when there is no reward for it?
People with exceptional work ethic like yours would do better in jobs where hard work is directly rewarded, such as sales commission jobs or running your own business. As long as you're working in jobs where you're not paid on your results, you'll always be underpaid and undervalued.
Doing your shift and going home should not be seen as a bad thing. I do whats in my job description to stay employed and that's it. I've gone above and beyond and that was at a low paying job with no upside. This is not a generational issue, this is just people waking up and not wanting to be exploited anymore.
It is called slacking, people quiet quitting should expects getting quietly getting fired. TBH most quiet quitter often drag down team productivity making others pick up their work they need to be called out be warned for their low productivity unless your job or employer do not care about that at all.
I broke up with a guy after a couple months of dating cuz he would respond to emails at night when we were together. I (politely) told him to leave work for work hours and he wouldn’t I don’t know why exactly but I’m not gonna live like that. So ya I stopped seeing him. Sadly. He seemed like a keeper but not worth it for me. Soo for ppl like Elon musk (who I like) that say we need to have more babies.. welll what if that guy I was dating didn’t work outside work hours? What if he wasn’t checking work emails at 9oclock at night? Could he and I haven been a successful couple? Could we have had a child or two? These are serious things to take into consideration. Emails didn’t exist before 1990s..
@@Soshiaircon91 Thanks for the input. I think slacking is when people don’t do their jobs as expected or outlined. QQ, in my understanding, is about people not feeling like wanting to do more than they are paid for. This is a serious social debate that revolves around ideas of capitalism, fair wages, income disparities, etc. It is a concern amongst a vast population of Americans who feel exploited in their work place. Many want what they see is a healthy work-life balance in which they are not manipulated with unreachable dangling carrots that amount to rotten mush by the time they close in. I understand that many do not hold this opinion and instead see hustle culture as a more viable approach in their careers.
@Gio M No worries I wont. Asserting my boundaries with my employer IS what makes me succeful in what matters the most in my life, I am a "go-getter" when it comes to creating the life i want for myself. You are free to live life without boundaries but dont complain when alone on your deathbed when you realize that you gave all you had, yet youve been replaced, when you realise that because you were so busy giving everything without boundaries you don't know your spouse and your children and you missed out on bonding living and creating memories with them all for the sake of "sucess" that you lost anyways.
I feel like quiet quitting is actually doing the bare minimum on the clock, and even less if they can get away with it. Quiet quitting definitely isn't not responding outside of work hours, nobody should be doing that.
Haha! I almost chocked on my cereal when I heard "not replying to messages after work hours" like seriously? It's like companies are getting upset that we're not giving in to this toxic mentality.
@@seangray5897 No, it’s just misnamed. Doing the bare minimum on the clock is just called being unambitious. This right here is just called self respect.
My boss at my current job “lectured” me for checking my email when I got home from vacation, telling me just to wait for my next shift. That’s the kind of company you should be working for, ones that respect your work life balance.
Exactly, this is what quite quitters are doing it for they are putting the base energy into their current job that is not respecting their boundaries while they find a job that will! I can't believe how ignorant CNBC is being here!
Walmart was the same to me. They know that they can get into legal trouble if they are caught working you off the clock, so they make it a huge point to say not to work while clocked out.
I grew up in the 70s in Europe and the slogan was "eight hours of labor, eight hours of recreation, eight hours of rest". Later, I moved to the US and started to hear all kinds of buzzwords like employee engagement, hustle culture, and maximizing billable hours. It made me realize how US companies are exploiting their workers to the maximum without any extra compensation.
People would laugh at that in the United States. If you work a physically demanding job you'd be able to say that, but you wouldn't get away with calling office work "labor" And why do you need 8 *full* hours of recreation? Sounds lazy to me, if it was for studying it would be a *maybe*
And how does commute factor into all of this? If I wake up an hour before my job to get ready doesn't that make it 8 hours work, 7 hours recreation and an hour of commute Does the commute time come out of your sleep, recreation or work?
Thank you for your comment. I think the US elites' wealth comes from exploiting labor. The European worker is doing better than the US worker because they don't let themselves get brainwashed like the idiot who replied to you earlier.
@@youtubeaccount5673 You honestly live in a bubble, not everywhere does it take an hour to reach your office. Not every country has congestion and traffic like the US does. Most communities in other parts of the world do not live like that in the US. You can bicycle your way to work in 10-15 mins in a lot of places. US is one of the worst cases of too much capitalism and company oriented culture. You guys are being overworked without realizing it and taking pride in it. Hussle culture and all of these buzzwords are laughed at by the rest of the world. These "gurus" promoting 100 hour work weeks and hussle culture are nothing but clowns. Ofc you can decide to live in an echo chamber and continue to believe what you do. Imagine a guy on public TV saying if you "quite quit" you are not working for me. Dude who wants to work for you? If you cannot respect your employees nobody will want to work there.
*ITS NOT QUIET QUITTING* its doing the work you are paid to do... Where I live the concept of answering work emails after work is f-uked up. In any nearby countries, it is illegal for your boss to send you them.
Those are also the bosses now wondering where are all of the workers. Pifft. 😒This is everywhere. Even Asian nations are practicing this,,, it's called tang ping, "lying down" which is to do the bare minimal for survival.
Everywhere I’ve heard of this behavior online, it’s usually just called “setting boundaries“. It’s laughable to think that’s synonymous with quitting your job.
It's American Culture. The Germans are known as very productive workers, yet they don't work much overtime, if at all. In Germany, if you're working overtime, you're not being efficient enough, rather than "going above and beyond".
@@Jo-Heike lol. Of course, the Germans always have to come out on top of everything… But I do agree with your statement about being an efficient worker.
Unbelievable how CNBC managed to turn this issue in favour of companies. Quiet quitting does not mean we don't work, it means we set boundaries. It's called a 9/5, not a 24/7. Dislike
Also the "Hopefully we'll see employees being productive and employers being successful" closing line was an interesting way to tell on themselves. ~Just doing your job isn't good enough, you need to be working as hard as you possibly can so I can be rich!~
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Yeah, the same morons who conflate "work" with "entitlement". I have the perfect cure for "quiet quitters" - start your own business, hire employees. I'll wait.
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Quiet quitting means not giving 120% like their parents did for years to a company who not only were never rewarded for the effort but were let go for younger talent to take their place. The younger workers saw the abuse and refuse to go down that path.
Whatever. Their parents did slacking at work which is no different from Quiet quitting. Millennials and GenZ are doing nothing new.. just a bunch of slackers like their parents.
As well, large amounts of overtime these days does not equate to more pay on your cheque, in fact it often is LESS because you are bumped into a different tax bracket. I went above and beyond for years and it NEVER benefited me and ended up affecting my health. So not worth it and rarely appreciated but expected once you start .
The 24/7 access to technology wasn’t as available when the older generations were working. It was a lot harder to expect people to keep working without cell phones and the internet being what they are now. Just because people now can work around the clock, doesn’t mean they should.
Simple facts: Most jobs will pay you just enough for you not to quit and most employees will work just enough not to be fired. I think is a fair deal. I’m sorry, but the reality is that the company will never go above and beyond for you, so why would you go above and beyond for it?
I wish other people were this, simply put, aware. It's not wrong to say what you said just simply stating the facts. Some people will say, "oh, you're lazy." It's so easy for people to be ignorant rather than to accept the truth we are all just human in the end
I do not believe that today workers are NOT paid for extra hours. On one hand they complain about low wages on the other hand they do not show that they want to earn more . DO not complain about inflation . You are asking more $$ for labor , i am going to ask for more money for my product and services . It have to balance out somewhere .
@@Howardm-fy8ir Any company that has staff. You get what you pay for. Don't let them fool you into believing that they don't already know this or can't afford it. Soaring corporate profits and executive/shareholder compensation tell a different story. They're gonna fight to keep that.
The only people mad about “quiet quitting” are the people that advantage of their workers🤣 he really said “if you’re quiet quitting, you’re not working for me” was I supposed to be hurt lmao
Yet we are supposed to be a free nation where there is a constitutional amendment saying we cannot be force into servitude without compensation. And employers are allowed to hold people's livelihoods over their heads.
I work for a software company based in UK online with 5 hours time difference. I work 9:00-18:00 local time. They asked me to work out of my work hours only a few times in 2 years. And that is mostly caused by time difference. They always paid for that extra hours. I had burnout in my past job, quit it and had severe depression for a year. I am happy with my new job and I am productive.
@Howardm-fy8ir That isn't always the case. Why are you so adamant on this issue? You're ignoring all of these people's personal stories that contradict your hilariously narrow world view.
@@marvinstorm9153 he should go above and beyond for the same reasons that make us talk about quiet quitting in the first place. You can't expect your employee to go above and beyond, while you aren't doing it either.
Yeah it always has to have a special term. That said, why am I working to make someone else successful and then get laid off because they don't want to reduce their salary\bonus?
@@specialiseesi6746 and the supervisor or managers get the big bonuses for your hard work so you can stress after you are out of the office or off the clock!
I miss when the dislike button still shows. Quiet quitting isn't about not giving your best or disengagement, it's about companies respecting your personal time.
It should be "people don't want to be slaves anymore! " Instead of "people don't want to work anymore" Many people, particularly the younger generation, use a range of unconventional methods of earning a living these days. I worked in the retail for over 10 years, so l'm quite happy that this is taking place. For too long, retail bullied me and a lot of my employees/colleagues saying things like "if you don't like it,go; another like you is waiting to get into your position " since the COVID, I found a job that helps me grow, pays me more and Values Me Social media cleared the way for a rapidly expanding market, and it taught us a lot. 2020 was my turning point, and investment helped alot!
yeah the 2020 pandemic gave everyone a big rethink! I tried a lot of things; I realised I shouldn't just let my savings sit around in the bank, tried side hustles. It paid off! Right now I’ve got less work time, time for my family and stick making the 6 figures
I don’t know why people call it quiet quitting. This movement is just about not killing yourself for a job or career. This should be the normal. Do your job while you are on the clock and that’s it. No more no less.
That attitude will get FIRED! Now the economy is OK; when the economy tanks, you will be the first one to get laid off, and employees with great work ethics, the ones go above and beyond, will be appreciated and stay on the job.
I didn't know that "doing your job you're paid for" was considered quiet quitting. You get paid for a set amount of work, once work is done, you've done your job. This speak volumes to the entitlement of many businesses that refusing to do more than you're supposed to is considered "quiet quitting".
People should respect boundaries. Where I work, the working hours is flexible so some people might work at 10am and log off at 6pm or start at 7 and end the day at 3pm and I have enough respect for my coworkers to be aware of what time certain people get off so whatever questions I have can wait til the next working day.
It’s like that douchenozzle CEO/investor loudmouth said in the full non-redacted interview: he stated something to the effect that there are 8 days a week and 25 hours in a day (if not exactly this). He’s a fine example of the insane running the asylum.
I thought the same thing. This response most likely indicates they have been getting away with this behavior for far too long, therefore, now it is simply expected. But let's be real...they were & are making a lot of profit off the slave labor of those with the "audacity" to "quiet quit." I mean it could always be worse...the quitting could be happening a lot more loudly & in a far more organized way😳😉😜
Quiet quitting is the result of companies trying to get more productivity done with less personnel. Burn out from too much work destroys the moral of the workforce.
Exactly! Many of my colleagues resigned and transferred to different companies because of burn out, worst of all HR freezes hiring new employees and the work load from the vacant positions was distributed for us to fill in. And they also added administrative tasks (Salesforce, paperworks, datas, etc.) to compensate for losses during the pandemic. I am now really thinking of quitting.
Don't ask for time off any more, you earned the time, just take it. Quiet quitting is exposing that these companies need employees more than we need them.
Employees don’t just do this on a whim, they have to be driven to it. It screams “failure to lead staff properly”.
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It speaks volumes about how messed up the American work culture is that it's considered quitting to simply work the hours you're paid for. Everything beyond that is actually unpaid labor.
Well come to India then, it's brutal we start at 10 and go till 8 in the night nearly everyday. If I don't work they will replace me anyways as there are millions of people waiting to snatch your jobs
How is this so hard to understand? The occasional weekend phone call is acceptable. However, we are now expected to answer the phone or check emails at any time. Employers do not own employees or their time outside of paid hours. And that's only one reason ...
Bingo. When our employers refuses to pay overtime, yet keep adding and adding all the after hours works off the book..... And when we demand that we need our OT paid and justified, and then got retaliations in the end. CIAO.
Exactly. If you’re expected to work outside of those hours, it needs to be stated and compensation is to be provided. Can’t get away with exploiting workers in this labor market, and employers are reeling.
I used to go "above and beyond" for my company until I stepped back and realized, I was being treated the same as those who did the "bare minimum" or just worked a typical 40 hour week. I would skip lunch breaks to get work done, I would come home close to midnight on most days, and I would wake up the next day, only to do it all over again. When my annual performance review came around, I got a 3% raise. A 3% raise was a $2 dollar increase for me. WooHoo! All that hard work and that's what I got back in return. Better than throwing us a pizza party I suppose. It took some serious blows to realize that bending over backwards for a company is simply not worth it. If you died tomorrow, your company would replace you in a week. I agree with the comments under this video...if your company is not going above and beyond for you, why should you be doing the same for them? I'm glad to see that people are fighting back on employee exploitation and setting boundaries for themselves. The pandemic really opened everyone's eyes and corporate America can't handle it.
Last week the CEO of the hospital I work at sent out a long-winded email about how we had a great fiscal year and made lots of money, all thanks to us fantastic employees who make it possible. Then in a meeting the following Monday the director said that our annual raise was only going to be 3% because that's all they can afford. After that, they proceed to play a video about how we cured some girls cancer with my division's breakthrough miracle viral vector. It was a lame attempt to tug on our heartstrings after telling us about a sub-par raise. All that does is motivate me to job hunt.
@@Andreas-iv8ym even if this were true it's not the right response. " Workers " need to stick together, or they'll use this type of argument to separate us and just pay others a lower but still unfair wage. It doesn't become "your" problem until it's "your" problem and you are not the one getting what seems fair to you, but this is a worker vs owner/management issue. We need to stick together or we will lose this fight.
Yep. Long story short I worked for a company from 19 to 25. At 1 point I worked 19 days in a row. I worked almost every holiday because I didn't have kids, and I never called out. When the company decided to sale the building to expand at a different location, they let everyone know on a Thursday that we'd be jobless by Monday. My outstanding work ethic didn't matter any more or less than the guy who called out once a week. I will never work arder for a business than I work for myself. I lost the first half of my 20's doing that.
I think calling it “quiet quitting” does a lot of harm in terms of framing the concept in peoples minds. It’s not quitting- it’s doing what you’re there (and getting paid) to do and closing the laptop and going about your life thereafter. Really can’t say I disagree with that
Plus, it shifts the blame to workers for wanting a healthier work-life balance, as opposed to the companies and managers that refuse to pay a proper raise with any sort of benefits while giving CEOs a boost in their salary.
Yeah, i agree. Quiet quitting to me sounds like quiting a job one day and never showing up after that. I think a better term for it would be finishing a shift. Im also purplexted that this is getting attention of news? This is not a new thing; its been happening since the dawn of working careers
I actually had been doing this when I was in the job market when I was younger. I don't think its 'new', I just think its happening more frequently. My last job I held before starting my own business was at a factory, my job was to deliver packages to the higher-ups, and to deliver sensitive urgent packages across departments, for QA testing or whatever else. Anyways, they kept asking me to do more, without a pay increase. It started with only cleaning here and there, dusting, a little mopping, but eventually, I was essentially a full-time cleaner, tasked additionally with inventory management of the entire factories PPE equipment, AND I stocked all of the PPE in the entire factory, again, without a pay increase. The main reason I didn't protest was because they weren't difficult to work for, and gave me allot of freedom in how my job was done, when I did what, when I chose my lunch break, etc. I was helping them, so in return, I was given freedom. So for me, it was fine. The main breaking point for me was when I made a mistake, I forgot to deliver a package and left it at the front desk, first time ever, apparently they called my manager, who got all angry that I forgot it. He then called me into his office, and wrote me up for 'not doing my duties' and outlined my 'job route', aka my job duties, and told me I needed to do them, and essentially tried to tighten the leash around my neck for no reason. The funny part was, all the extra stuff required of me was NOT on the route. So I conceded, and said I'd do exactly what was on the sheet. Next day, he calls me in to complain that I'm not 'doing my job', I told him I was doing my job, what was on the sheet, as I was told, and nothing else. He then created a new sheet, which also had errors and missing duties. Several attempts later he is obviously extremely fed up with me, and I'm very fed up with him, he started to write me up over non-sensical things, whatever he could, he and the other manager told me I was 'replaceable' and they could 'do my job' so I essentially needed to get in line. They told me my new office was going to be located in the same office as the managers, in my opinion it was an attempt to shadow me for replacement. Keep in mind, I had designed new systems for this job on my work PC, entire inventory management systems, that were updated, etc, to help them out, I was generally good with tech, too good to be an employee at this place, and all of it was MINE and only used by me, and, the only person who taught me the job duties, the ins and outs, the little things not listed, and knew the job well was the previous employee, who was obviously gone now. Needless to say I quit without notice after that discussion, and reveled in the fact I knew they were severely f*cked without me, and a massive multi-million dollar factory was going to suffer significantly due to their ego's.
It's a conspiracy. The rich elite created this term in order to create stigma and out a negative light on workers just doing their jobs and not overworking.
All of "quiet quitting" sounds like an employee setting boundaries and saying they won't work extra hours for free or have to constantly check for emails or surprise work when they are supposed to be relaxing or getting other responsible stuff done on their time off.
My wild guess is pre-COVID, employers were able to keep up the illusion that employees were easily replaceable and if you weren't willing to do "x" (insert unreasonable and uncompensated demand here), they'd fire you and hire someone who would. Now that employers are having a harder time getting employees, they weep and wail and gnash their teeth that "nobody wants to work" anymore when its really just that we're tired of being overworked, underpaid, and exploited.
Feels like it’s a made-up term by middle and upper management post-COVID because they realized they cannot control their workers. So quite quitting just mean average when they want exceptional.
Quiet quitting is a stress response. When you feel disrespected by your employer you might lash out at other employees (fight response). When you feel disengaged, you don't participate in work events (flight response). When you feel anxious or fearful from a manager who is demanding (freeze response). When you feel you have to do it all (fawning response). Basically all your energy is in survival and you don't have the capacity to go beyond the parameters of a regular work day. The cortisol is flowing through your body for 8 hours straight - this is not normal for the human body.
💯 and in America more people die from stress filled jobs, and turn to Alcohol or drugs (I prefer weed) to help ease the suffering from these toxic jobs.
@@METALHEAD550weed makes the trick of faking being good employees when the only thing that matters is smoking pot, b#st a Nu-t and listen some music away from corporations ties. F' minimum wage b@stard employers!
I don’t know about anybody else, but personally, I’m excited to see so many people realizing that workers have the power. The system has been broken for FAR too long and workers are saying, NOPE. We won’t tolerate further exploitation.
Please SAY THIS LOUDER!!!!! after covid companies said nobody wants to work. Nobody wants to go back to this toxicity of living life making companies rich at our expense. Low pay no real raises except pennies and no balance with home and burn put and mental health issues. Fix this!!!! People will work if you pay them what they are doing for your company and not more than that.
it took a while for workers to realize this AND actually act...I'm my early 20s when i started to work, i couldn't believe why so many people were trying to work and go above and beyond for their employers, I mean they're going to be multimillionaires from the excessive work, their bosses will lol. But finally people are realizing it.
I know this feeling. I have been in my job for 7 years now and last year (2022) was one of the hardest we had. Our team worked really hard and I most of all. Our supervisor announced he was resigning just before Christmas and the manager announced they were spliting his role into two team leader roles. I applied for one of the two roles (as a large number of the office was almost begging me to go for it) and 2 days after putting in the application the manager told me they would not accept the application as I "had no team leader skills" and they wanted a strong person to lead the growing team. I had applied for the full role four years ago and was told I would receive help in obtaining the skils required but four years later, nothing has been done. I will be expected to teach the new person what they need to do in the role given my experiance. It has left me with a great discouragement in regards to trusting management.
Been at same company for 3 years now. My “above and beyond” never got me a raise. I will be doing the bare minimum required. Also while looking for other work
narhhh that depends, if overtime is a regular thing then it's failure on the management but of it is occasionally due to emergencies or other stuffs then it's fairly normal and has to be paid though
it depends on the type of business. If you have a factory, a particular machine produces 400 parts in 8 hours, and the client needs 450 per day, you need the team that runs the machine to work 9 hours instead of 8. I heard that sentence several times from people that never worked with anything besides excel sheets, and email. The real World does not work like that.
This quote is half true. Overtime can be caused by many things - not just failure of management. Supply chain backed up, backlogged backorders, and then all of a sudden shipments showing up at once - thus causing overtime to get orders out fast (to maintain sales and revenue)…. Is not failure of management. A handful of employees calling out sick for the stomach bug and it causes other employees to work overtime to get orders out…..is not failure of management. Huge increase in sales…overtime is needed. I could list many more examples. In all, overtime is not (necessarily) caused by failure of management. For the people who have an issue with overtime….that usually means you’re doing your job correctly, not managing your time correctly, and not prioritizing.
@@tzdgonz it is not a miss in management if you are limited by what the machinery can do in 8 hours, and your client wants a larger quantity. You can tell your client no, but instead of overtime you end up with no client.
As a quiet quitting truck driver, the only time I go the extra mile is when I miss my exit 👆🏾 I'm here to perform a job based on agreed up on wages and tasks expected of me. Outside of that, I got nothing more to give. Fair is fair.
im a mailman and same here, i do like my job but if your driveway isn't cleared of snow, car parked in front of the mailbox or ur dog is loose ur mail can wait till tomorrow
Lol people are so emotional when it comes to the work relationship on both ends! If they just see the transaction as a business for both the worker and the employer then it’s fair to say that what you pay for is what you get! If a worker is not satisfied with their pay they will only do what they feel is worth their pay and vice versa if an employer is unsatisfied with the amount of work they are getting out of the employee then they fire them and hire someone else! The thing with quiet quitters is that they are doing enough of the work where the employer still needs them and doesn’t feel it’s worth firing the employee and going through the hassle of rehiring and training someone new for the job! This is why it frustrates the employer because they are paying for something that is near fair value and not a bargain for them! Employers need to be realistic in their expectations because they can’t expect a Ferrari or Lambourgini if they are trying to pay the price equivalent of a Honda Civic! The worker who decides to quiet quit is actually very business minded and knows their worth! Doing enough not to get fired but at the same time ensuring boundaries are in place from further exploitation!
In Europe, this is even protected by law. And years ago France introduced a law, that employees don’t have to answer emails after end of work or weekends.
This movement is a step in the right direction, Companies are calling this quite quitting to make us feel bad about not doing unpaid overtime. With rise of more freelance work opportunities, and better work culture. Traditional companies would now have to think about the Work life balance.
It’s a bit concerning that it’s considered a issue if someone isn’t working over their employment agreement, if you paid for 40 hours (normal work week) then that’s the amount the of time the company can expect. Especially when some companies refuse or contractually say they don’t pay overtime. Time is money right?
@@jupiterjames4201 I don't know. I got some good raises and perks at work for working hard and working overtime and always being available. But please continue to follow this trend, it'll be less competition for guys like us. You do what works best for you.
@@jupiterjames4201 and conversely, employers should be happy to give all employees that do go above and beyond a raise and/or a promotion, not just recognition ... its a two way street.
@@alexmendez3681 it's not necessarily the case. There are many talented people who follow their work hour and then there are less talented people who have to drag themselves till night to accomplish same thing. If your work is done. Move on. If not then complete it somehow.
In the 1970s and 1980s we called this "maintaining a healthy work/life balance." Then it was easier, because if the boss called after hours and I wasn't at home, they would have to leave a message on my answering machine on my home phone. Listening to O'leary, it hit me hard that he wants his employees to work extra hours and give up watching their kids soccer matches for no additional compensation. If his employees are salaried, thereby exempt from the federal overtime pay laws, while not paying them for their overtime is not illegal, it is a form of wage theft.
Or AT LEAST stipulate it in your contract. All of the free market republicans and libertarians here seem to be overjoyed in the comments about employers not following their contracts.
Precisely. Employers should get training on this since they cannot get it through their head that the things they ask for nobody is willing to do for free.
Yep. I have been working for a company where I was on call basically 24/7. Did I get call time? Nope. They would look at you like you like you had 3 heads in you even asked. Then, my company buys out a competitor that does the same job. Not only did those employees get paid to be on call, they continue to get paid to be on call after we acquire them, and we still don't. As a bonus. We were trained to support their systems, in addition to ours, so we supported multiple systems while they supported one, yet we still got paid less. This is the norm, not the exception. No matter who I talk to. Every company now has management that is so utterly clueless and incompetent it is embarrassing. Most of us are literally living in some dystopian Dilbert cartoon. It is like someone took the movie Idiocracy and used that as a model for management training.
As someone in the UK we don't call it quiet quitting. We call it essential respect for your employees. This is so so surreal. Work shouldn't call me after work hours and on weekends, it shouldn't be mad I don't check work emails in my off time, I shouldn't do unpaid overtime routinely. This is standard practice here in the UK. Some break these social rules but they are considered toxic workplaces. And to add to this I work in construction, one of the hardest industries. I'm not a consultant on a laptop in a comfortable office.
I'm Canadian, and I've also never heard of this term until now. I would have just called it a healthy work-life balance. I thought this was accepted everywhere, I'm pretty sure slack(usually used by software devs for communication, and by one of the ladies in the video), by default, disables notifications past a certain point in the day too. I feel bad for professors, because it seemed like a lot of mine didn't know how to just stop checking their email after a certain time, and would write highly detailed high-effort responses late at night and would talk about doing all-nighters to mark our work.
It’s called “work-to-rule”, not quiet-quitting. It’s been a thing for DECADES. Greedy employers/corporations want to penalize workers for having valid boundaries!!
I'm fairly sure that all these people don't know what quitting means. Have they ever quit a job or were they all just fired so they don't even know what they're talking about?
Partially right information. Work-to-rule is a job action used by union backed mostly industrial workers as a preemptive position to be less disruptive than a strike or lockout. Now we have college educated, white collar, tech job, corporate job having GenZ trying to regulate how they want their work day to go. Work-to-rule will bring productive business to a grinding halt. Bus drivers will do 20 point inspections of buses before and during their shifts. Teachers refusing to work for free at night and during weekends and holidays. Refusal to work overtime, travel on duty, or sign up to other tasks requiring employee assent are other manifestations of using work-to-rule as industrial action. Who will volunteer for community events like breast cancer runs, painting over graffiti on walls @ an elementary school, or helping an animal shelter on pet adoption day? All of those free snacks in the staff kitchen and FREE catered lunch on Friday will be things of the past. Companies give back to their staff in other ways when expected to do things outside of their normal work hours. Keep playing this game and it will soon backfire!
a proud quiet quitter here and have never been happier. i was working my ass off and getting no recognition in return. now i dont stress too much work. i still do quality work just dont go 'above and beyond' on a regular basis. its improved the quality of my life so much.
I love the comments about employers being concerned that people aren’t going above and beyond. If you want something more, ask your employee and then compensate them for it.
@eric Spencer Is exploitation part of running a successful business? In all seriousness, if it were legal, would successful businesses use slaves? I think they’d lose an obvious competitive advantage. Again, not a joke. This was an issue a very short time ago.
The hoops they jump through to disengage this as a “wacky trend” instead of millions demanding reasonable working conditions is so American it hurts a little.
Employers need to start treating the working class with respect and pay people what they deserve. Productivity will continue to go down because labor has always been the scapegoat and people are sick of it.
Having worked in multiple professional environments, I feel like these negative experiences are not the norm. Most employers do treat their employees with respect.
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This is the most US thing ever. In Europe, we call this “healthy work-life balance”. And as one of my managers once said: “If you can’t do everything that’s expected from you within the allocated hours, we need to revise how those 8-9 working hours are spent”
Yeah the cools and all but the US has a very different history. Over here we have an overwork culture that developed thanks to the protestants that founded the country. Frankly it's about damn time we get rid of this mindset.
I have a business, and can't imagine asking someone to work on their free time without compensation. I was unaware that large corporations required this of their employees. It seems more like slavery than employment. It used to be illegal to require employees to work "off the clock". Employers must have found a loophole. I find it reprehensible, and demeaning. Employees need their personal space, and time to recharge. There are 40 golden hours. After that productivity diminishes exponentially. Large corporations are notorious for inefficiency, and this is a prime example. Quiet quitting seems like a misnomer created by poor leadership.
How about employers hiring enough people to do the job instead of expecting an employee to be 2 for the price of 1? That trend has been going on far too long. Happy to see employees sticking up for themselves. And what about employers who have not been compensating their workforce properly yet often absent and living like kings?
Another reason could be due to the rise of nepotism and B-grade managers. I'm a big advocate of working in an office, but I've noticed that after the pandemic, companies are hiring bad managers through their networks to save costs. This is giving carte blanche to managers who are subpar in their fields and is effectively making the workplace toxic.
I used to worry about going the extra mile, putting in 50 hours a week, constantly worrying about work, then my perspective changed drastically watching two folks I cared about ruin their lives over a job. The first was a darn good lawyer, one of the first females practicing law in our area. She was in a prestigious firm and was a partner. Her clients wanted her to cover their cases since she one of the best around. She got sick, put off going to the doctor because her case load was high and she did not want to let her clients and firm down. When she did go it was in an ambulance. After the cancer diagnosis she postponed surgery based on her court dates. The cancer killed her and she went to work that morning. Within three days a new lawyer was in her office taking her place. She believed that she was indispensable, when really she was just another lawyer filling an office. The second was my father-in-law. He was a CPA, and retired. He decided to go back to work part time and full time during tax season and work for an accounting company. He is a diabetic, he cut his foot during tax season, and it was not healing well. Instead of going to the doctor he put it off because his work load was high. He ended up loosing half his foot and missed 3 weeks of work. When he returned, he was handed his pink slip because he missed work and they needed to hire someone else to cover the accounts. Moral of the story in my book, your job is a job, it’s not worth your life, health, or well being….
Exactly. That story repeats itself around 1000x every minute. People killing themselves as somehow they have been led to believe if they just work hard, and sacrifice their lives for the company, they will get rewarded some day. Yet, that rarely ever happens. All the work goes to the bottom, all the rewards go to the top. THAT is the core issue. The myth that you get what you put in is just that, fiction.
Sadly too many people think like your father-in-law and friend. They will work themselves to death for some company. When said company will replace, lay off, or fire in a heart beat if it was in their best interest.
Yep. I had a coworker who kept driving his truck in bad weather because our company pushed him to keep going. He wanted to be a good worker and the company said they wanted the shipment on time. The weather made him crash and demolish the truck and shipment, THEN the company fired him. So not only did he almost lose his life trying to be a good slave, but he also got fired, too.
Work probably wasn't the real cause here for them. Some people are just stubborn and choose not to go the dr etc because they are avoiding it. People don't take care of themselves all the time that has little to nothing to do with work. They don't want the bad news or don't want to deal with it.
I think this speaks more to how employees have been abused for years and are “waking up” now, rather than them becoming lazy or something. We (employees) allowed this situation to get this bad by allowing employers to walk all over us for years. Quiet quitting is vital to resetting the balance. Also f*** Kevin O’Leary. Did you see how angry he was about it? That’s exactly the reaction we want to see from the power hungry rich people. It means it works.
He says "if you want a 9to5 then time off to go enjoy a soccer game, those people don't work for me." he doesn't want workers, it sounds more like he wants slaves man. If I worked for someone who said they didn't want me spending time with friends/family/myself I would think they're psychopaths. Maybe it works for single men/women who just want to make fat stacks but for people who want to LIVE life nah.
Yup you are right. I'm wondering what to do which will have an impact? Just hope a big company makes a huge chance in their system and the chain should be spoiled. Worth it. Big MFS like Kevin, Jeff make so many trillions and exploit others.
Because you devalue your own ability to work. You always want to be worth more than you are getting paid, as it means you always have opportunity to make more.
@@melissabodily3675 just because my boss have to endure the stress of owning a bussiness doesnt mean I got to suffer with him. it was his idea to do it, im literally just a guy working to pay my lunch
@@ShaieneKun Hey Rafael, don't listen to this dumbitch @Melissa Bodily. It's your life and if you chose to make more money or spend more time with loved ones, friends, ... etc. that's your right. Her BS about suffering in this world when her attitude is the very thing causing the suffering is beyond disgusting. Don't let her or anyone else gaslight you with her corporate doublespeak. Take care of yourself and your family. You are one of the good people of this world and she is definitely not.
We can't even shut up and do our work peacefully without getting involved in office politics or office drama, without being called "quiet quitters" is disgusting! The person who invented this word is probably a salty employer who can't keep his talents around
“Quiet Quitting” is such a misnomer. You can be an outstanding and exceptional employee without neglecting your personal life. If your boss thinks that you not answering an email over the weekend is somehow you being lazy, then your boss is a tyrant.
Look at it from the boss's perspective: Why would they want to pay someone for eight hours of work and only get eight hours from it, when they could find someone more dedicated who will work for ten hours while being paid for eight?
If your boss' idea of a good employee is someone who answers an email on the weekend, their eye isn't on the ball. Profitable employees find ways to reduce the resources required to do whatever the company does. Don't give points for effort.
@@devinmcmanus Work smarter, not harder. Exactly. Plus a lot of the things employers stack on for extra tasks without explanation are just exploitation, and physical labor meant to exclude disabled and/or neurodivergent workers.
If it's a salaried job, they can call it 8 hours or 10 hours a day, but that's not what I'm hung up about. I just want the option to negotiate my salary down to 30 or even 20 hours a week. But that's not an option in the US because our health insurance is tied to our employment status, and our healthcare insurance costs are the same no matter how many hours we work per day. So naturally, employers are going to want to milk us for as many hours as we got. Let's decouple healthcare from employers, and that's a first step to resolving this problem.
I'm proud that employees are starting to learn to enforce better boundaries with the companies that've taken advantage of them for so long. There is nothing wrong with only doing the work you are paid for.
@@tira2145 Have you worked in a job? Working hard isn't the way anymore. there is so much favoritism, "getting ahead" means letting yourself get exploited. I've seen what " getting ahead" was, "missing breaks and skipping lunches," covering positions that pay more for less and throw you back into your position. There's no movement anymore without any ass-kissing. management want more, than pay more.
@@Kitteh413 so never go out of the way to help someone? It's no different at work. A coworker is struggling, you help them. But your just a selfish loser.
@@TwiztedMannix87 you work at a crap company. That's your problem. I love my job and the company, but we all work close to 100 hours every week. My future and my wealth are really good. It's worth the sacrifice.
I’m no longer bending over backwards and risking my mental health. I learned this the hard way and now I’m trying to get back to a healthy mental state.
I love how one guy said- if you’re a quiet quitter you don’t/ won’t work for me. Yes mister, we evolved and adapt to our own personal need. If you want to die full of money, go ahead- bring that to your grave. Don’t drag us along with you- run your company with zero employees, see how that’ll work😂 the ego of some execs are just laughable
I've lived my whole life as a 'quit quitter' back when it wasn't a thing. I found out early on that if I live modestly and did't buy into the consumerism infecting our country, I needed very little time spent earning a living so I had most of my time available to bicycle tour, backpack, kayak, canoe, and sail all over the world. I chose having experiences (some truly adventures) over accumulating stuff and it has made all the difference in the world. Only worked 20 years of my adult life, 72 now, and still out there going strong. Life is short so don't spend too much of it working.
I considered working as a underwater welder, high end(hard) projects. I'd deal with the risks then retire at 40-42. Not push myself or try to buy 🏍🚗🏠🚲🚤 all over.
Soo in other words you are alone and don't have a family and on your death bed no one will be there...gotcha! Also, what your saying is you have never had responsibilities 👍👍
I have worked for the same company for 8 years. For the first six and a half I went above and beyond in all tasks to make myself stand out as a stellar employee. And I achieved that. Every single yearly review they told me I was one of the top producers in my very large unit. And I was one of the top employees they've ever had. And it got me nothing. No bonus, no raise, no promotion. Every review I was a 10 out of 10 and in the same breath and excuse was given why the Fortune 500 company that I work for didn't have the money to increase my salary at that time based on my work..... So I backed all the way off. I do exactly what is required of me and that is it. I will not work for 30 seconds unpaid now. I will not bust my butt to be the best when it is not rewarded. If you are not going to compensate or promote or financially incentivize me for doing more, you are not going to get any more from me.
@@Howardm-fy8ir ....yeah. that's the point. Why in the world would you keep exerting the tremendous effort required to be exceptional. If they will look at you the same when you put in half the amount of effort. I got nothing out of that except exhaustion for nearly a decade. They did not care. So what am I killing myself for?
@@Howardm-fy8ir it's good. Nothing has changed except that I'm able to give more energy/ time and attention to the pursuits that matter to me. So my life has improved.
“Quiet Quitting” is a legal right in Australia. Any company that expects their workers to do anything work related outside their work hours without the workers consent and over time will be prosecuted.
This seriously needs to become law in the US... There's literally no reason for it outside of the wealthy are in power and want to force those under them to work crazy hours and not get compensated for it.
Just think it’s about people setting boundaries for a change realizing their personal life time is of valued importance and more so than their job. When I leave work I don’t check emails, don’t answer the work phone, don’t check on anything related to work. So much so, I let my work phone battery go flat dead in between . I learned a long time ago, going above and beyond got me nowhere when it was time for layoffs, as was layoff just like everyone else even those that never went above or beyond. I respect my private time, away from work.
Because there are competitive people like me who don't have boundaries and don't mind working an hour here and there and it puts you in an unfavorable position. It's called competition. But, you should continue to quiet quit, it'll be less competition and I'm okay with that. Please continue to set your boundaries, I insist!
I am an HR professional in the Netherlands. Thank gosh here this is nothing new. We don’t call it “quiet quitting”. This is simply working hours regulations. You work for the hours you are paid for. I don’t “quiet quit”. I simply live a life after work like everybody else does in the Netherlands (with the few workaholics exceptions).
As an expat in Netherlands I can confirm this. It took me two burn outs, HR and ArboUnie interference till I understood that I’m supposed to have life after work and me not replying to late evening emails will not get back on me during my performance review… I like what I was told during this process: If you are constantly forced to work overtimes to finish your work then staffing manager for your department did a poor job.
Thank you! i recently started working more with the US in olace of EU based colleagues and the work culture is still very different. I am surprised a norm of having a balanced work life setting is labelled quitting or seen as a shift from the expected norm , lazy or unproductive.
I am 42 and something in me just broke after I turned 40 during the beginning of the pandemic. I actually admitted to my boss this year that my only goal is to be an employee in good standing on January 1st of every year. She was surprisingly sympathetic. I don't mind going above and beyond once in a while, but I've never been a career person. Having a job is something that I do so I don't starve to death or have to sleep in the rain. I really have never been engaged with any job that I've had; I do what I need to do, then I go home.
Why is this such a mystery to the manager/CEO class? It's pretty simple. Stagnant wages over the past 40 years, evaporating benefits, poison workplaces. This year CEOs took an average of 23% more home than last year. Year over year they get double digit increases in pay, while the rest of us are told, in no uncertain terms, do more with less, for less pay (adjusted for inflation). I mean it's not rocket science. I think workers have finally had enough and have hit a breaking point of busting their ass, for nothing in return. Yes, it's that simple. But the managers and CEOs are afraid to admit it, because that would mean paying people more for their time. That cuts into THEIR profits/bonuses. They cant have that, so they pretend not to see it. It's so sad.
Yes they chose to not see wherw they can cut. 😔 sad but the only person looking out for you is you. That is the truth. They are just looking out for themselves. So let's stand up for ourselves too!!!
I completely agree not once did the video mention stagnant wage growth, cost of living crisis or high inflation - preferring to pretend its an engagement issue. Cmon its business, why is everyone allowed to be capitalist except for employees. These companies don;t give away free product, so why should we give away free time??
Exactly, US Fortune 500 CEOs earn on average 26 million annually, but the recession will happen because regular employees stop working unpaid overtime, makes total sense
Life is short…the pandemic brought home that reality. So I’m not willing to pass the majority of my time with people that do not care about me. 40 hours a week is enough.
@AJ XOXO you want to know what’s a “loser mentality”? Yours, for thinking that work constantly infringing on after business hours until the resultant burnout sets in is even remotely sustainable. Never run a business with actual people. You’re out of touch with reality and you will fail. Miserably.
@AJ XOXO You're going to realize that one day, all those overtime hours that you spent away from loved ones can never come back. You're allowed to have a life beyond work where you can spend time with family and the people that truly matter while moving up in your career. Just remember, in the end you are trading the most finite valuable resource that you have: time.
CEO’s are literally threatening a recession based on this. Goes to show how much they hate their employees & how far they’re willing to go to keep us desperate & compliant.
@@IAmTheAnswerer consumer spending has been down before coof19 and the bigs knew it, life's not all about buying crap and working consistently and it's showing big time, and the big bois and girls are mad about it.
We are in a continuous give and take chain. There is only 1 thing that can literally disrupt a company. Many companies value each second, so if many employees quit together at once by having good unity amongst them, just see the owners ego and life fall. Just think once these CEO's have climbed so much in life that they have a lot at stake and too much to lose. Whereas we employees, can just switch companies.
For jobs with no bonuses, incentives, or career growth, it makes sense to set boundaries and limitations to corporations or institutions who don’t value their workers. People are still doing their work and being productive, they just aren’t giving more to jobs that don’t give back.
Resigned 3 years ago, was a middle management, and I'd prefer my members to go home on time except at times when there's a major problem to tackle. They'll come back on the next day with a fresh mind, full of energy, and creativity. And when we respect their daily boundaries, they'll gladly sacrifice their time when there's a huge problem.
We had a guy at my work that would always stay an hr or more after work without overtime. I would always tell him he's getting paid less hourly the longer he stays but he didn't care. He thought management would notice and he would get promoted early. Well no one noticed him until he had a heart attack and then he was laid off.
Yeah you agree to provide service for 9-5 and not beyond that. Sometimes they don't pay for your overtime work. Time is an important resource, there should have a price for it if they want you to go and beyond.
I was nervous to read the comments but I was pleasantly surprised. We're not quitting. We're setting boundaries and acting our wage. Labor productivity and employee engagement will continue to drop. We know we're worth more. We're tired. We're not being paid to survive. We're no longer accepting crumbs. Things need to change and this is how it happens.
In 2018-2019, I was working enough overtime to double my paycheck. 7am to 9pm. It was awesome. I was on the quick lane to paying off my mortgage and buying myself a new car by the end of the year. The longer I worked in the same department, though, the more my teammates and leadership had something to say about how I did my work. Not that I was making a bunch of errors. I’d found a way to finish everything I started and not let any work (or very little) expire. They wanted me to let them cut in and finish up the work I’d started and for me to pick up theirs and finish it off. They also didn’t like how I noted my work despite all the information needed for records being there. It got old. When new leadership came in and the conditions of the work environment got worse - every few days - I decided it was time to get back in school and, consequently, had no time for overtime. My bosses decided to mandate it. One said she noticed I didn’t maintain production when I’m burnt out. She and another dropped that classic line “if you don’t like it here, you don’t have to be. You can leave whenever you like. There are several other people that would love to work here”. I don’t feel valued here and I might _not_ be valuable in their perspective. I’m not quiet quitting (I have nowhere else to go currently). I just …don’t want to sign up for extra hours of somebody treating me like the boy who lived under the stairs. I actually had one boss shouting at me in the kitchen loud enough for people across the floor to hear. She didn’t like how succinct my notes are. I promise you, my note structure is exactly the way my trainer told me to do it.
@@hdaviator9181 lol its not about wanting to work. Its about giving 100 percent and not above 100 percent. Lets be honest, most companies will pay you the same whether you give 100 percent or 100 plus percent. Most promotions are based on politics and not solely on work ethic. The only people I see nowadays going above and beyond and getting consumed in work are people with no outside life. Which is fine. Just don't complain when you get burned out.
Interesting how the failure is only seen on the employees side, there’s two sides to the story: employers have shown employees that they are replaceable, didn’t care for them during hard times and only expect them to deliver without ever stepping beyond their required delivery. Working people just give back to companies how they treated their employees. It’s just evening out the playing field. Treat your employees like sht and they won’t go the extra mile for you. As simple as that
As a millennial, I'm glad I was a part of the movement. I had to leave UPMC alone. And survived 4 months without them and doing temp agency work until my new job coming up. I thank God my city has alot of temporary contacts
The fact it’s even called “quiet quitting” is gaslighting. If you want 50, 60 hours of work out of your employees, then pay them for 50-60 hours of work. Companies refuse to raise salaries to match inflation then complain when employees won’t give them free after-hours labor.
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Exactly, productivity doesn't correlate with greater rewards for the worker, only the employer. 4 decades of stagnant wages despite unprecedented productivity, and the employers are crying that people are suddenly no longer motivated to go above and beyond. Does the employer ever go above and beyond for the worker? No. It's a rigged game and people are sick of it.
Exactly, they want you to work for free aka slave work. Some of us actually try to learn a new skill outside of the day job and don't like ppl wasting their time. If you can't get the workload done in the allotted 40hrs a week then that means you need to hire more workers -and I stand by that. If you have someone constantly working 50-60 hrs then that mean you have the work of 1.5 employees so you need to hire a gaht dang intern for that extra 10-20hr of extra time if the work doesn't justify hiring a new reg worker bc someone at the top is collecting on that extra 10-20hr of free work that you are generating.
I used to work a job where I honestly gave 120% everyday. When Covid happened,I was working 15-17 hours a day making sure we were always ahead of the work flow. When raise time came around, my manager explained that the “top performer” raise was unobtainable because perfect people don’t exist, and I got the same raise that my coworkers who only did their 8 hours got. That was one of the most disheartening lessons that I ever learned. I’m now that guy that warns new people against going above and beyond, to me quiet quitting is the epitome of working smarter not harder.
@@poollife777 he's a worker bee. If he was smart he would had been quit.
I agree. I've done so much overtime and have never been told thanks. Never received any recognition for the good work I do. I recently had a situation where I decided to make a smart decision. It's not part of my job but I did it because I thought it might be a good idea. Unexpectedly, there was a problem and, thanks to the work I had done, it was solved in an hour when it could have been a huge thing that went on for weeks. No one even said thank you. Whenever i have a review with my manager, we just focus on whether I have met my KPIs, nothing extra. So why would I do extra when there is no reward for it?
People with exceptional work ethic like yours would do better in jobs where hard work is directly rewarded, such as sales commission jobs or running your own business. As long as you're working in jobs where you're not paid on your results, you'll always be underpaid and undervalued.
Preach it from the hilltops !!!!
Keep your outstanding work ethic! Just find an employer who appreciates you, or use that drive to open your own business.
Doing your shift and going home should not be seen as a bad thing. I do whats in my job description to stay employed and that's it. I've gone above and beyond and that was at a low paying job with no upside. This is not a generational issue, this is just people waking up and not wanting to be exploited anymore.
They think we are slave’s
Yup, and as the old saying, those who exploit are the 1% people, the richest of richest
Well said.
@@metoland4196 They want to treat people like slaves, that's for sure.
It is called slacking, people quiet quitting should expects getting quietly getting fired. TBH most quiet quitter often drag down team productivity making others pick up their work they need to be called out be warned for their low productivity unless your job or employer do not care about that at all.
Not responding after 5 isn’t “quiet quitting”, it’s having clear boundaries.
Employers want we employees have no life to live but live working to death.
@@millennial8441yup exactly, but they won't think twice about throwing us to the wolves if it can increase their revenue by even a quarter
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I broke up with a guy after a couple months of dating cuz he would respond to emails at night when we were together. I (politely) told him to leave work for work hours and he wouldn’t I don’t know why exactly but I’m not gonna live like that. So ya I stopped seeing him. Sadly. He seemed like a keeper but not worth it for me.
Soo for ppl like Elon musk (who I like) that say we need to have more babies.. welll what if that guy I was dating didn’t work outside work hours? What if he wasn’t checking work emails at 9oclock at night? Could he and I haven been a successful couple? Could we have had a child or two?
These are serious things to take into consideration. Emails didn’t exist before 1990s..
Businesses like to call it “quiet quitting” bc they want us to feel bad about not working for free.
Businesses didnt coin that term quiet quitter. Business call quiet quitters as what it is Slackers dragging down productivity.
What businesses are doing is called "quiet exploitation". We definitely need a whole lot of "quiet quitting" to level the playing field.
@@Soshiaircon91 Thanks for the input. I think slacking is when people don’t do their jobs as expected or outlined. QQ, in my understanding, is about people not feeling like wanting to do more than they are paid for. This is a serious social debate that revolves around ideas of capitalism, fair wages, income disparities, etc. It is a concern amongst a vast population of Americans who feel exploited in their work place. Many want what they see is a healthy work-life balance in which they are not manipulated with unreachable dangling carrots that amount to rotten mush by the time they close in. I understand that many do not hold this opinion and instead see hustle culture as a more viable approach in their careers.
Before E mail all work was quite quiting
@@InvestingAlex Start with you . Stay home .
"Quiet Quitting" is basically just asserting your boundaries with your employer and not being taken advantage of, period.
Exactly! Boomers and capitalist are too narcissist to accept when gen y and gen z put boundaries on their job. Lol
@Gio M No worries I wont. Asserting my boundaries with my employer IS what makes me succeful in what matters the most in my life, I am a "go-getter" when it comes to creating the life i want for myself. You are free to live life without boundaries but dont complain when alone on your deathbed when you realize that you gave all you had, yet youve been replaced, when you realise that because you were so busy giving everything without boundaries you don't know your spouse and your children and you missed out on bonding living and creating memories with them all for the sake of "sucess" that you lost anyways.
Me from the start but even then they still Find a way
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@@whitenia87 whatever BUM.
Ah yes, "quiet quitting".
Also known as "respecting the time for your own personal life."
Also known as "Work to Rule."
Seriously! This headline is so annoying
I feel like quiet quitting is actually doing the bare minimum on the clock, and even less if they can get away with it. Quiet quitting definitely isn't not responding outside of work hours, nobody should be doing that.
Haha! I almost chocked on my cereal when I heard "not replying to messages after work hours" like seriously? It's like companies are getting upset that we're not giving in to this toxic mentality.
@@seangray5897 No, it’s just misnamed. Doing the bare minimum on the clock is just called being unambitious. This right here is just called self respect.
My boss at my current job “lectured” me for checking my email when I got home from vacation, telling me just to wait for my next shift. That’s the kind of company you should be working for, ones that respect your work life balance.
Lies again? Quit Smoking
@@NazriB why you keep spamming similar comments everywhere?
Exactly, this is what quite quitters are doing it for they are putting the base energy into their current job that is not respecting their boundaries while they find a job that will! I can't believe how ignorant CNBC is being here!
Walmart was the same to me. They know that they can get into legal trouble if they are caught working you off the clock, so they make it a huge point to say not to work while clocked out.
What company do you work for?
I grew up in the 70s in Europe and the slogan was "eight hours of labor, eight hours of recreation, eight hours of rest". Later, I moved to the US and started to hear all kinds of buzzwords like employee engagement, hustle culture, and maximizing billable hours. It made me realize how US companies are exploiting their workers to the maximum without any extra compensation.
People would laugh at that in the United States. If you work a physically demanding job you'd be able to say that, but you wouldn't get away with calling office work "labor"
And why do you need 8 *full* hours of recreation? Sounds lazy to me, if it was for studying it would be a *maybe*
And how does commute factor into all of this? If I wake up an hour before my job to get ready doesn't that make it 8 hours work, 7 hours recreation and an hour of commute
Does the commute time come out of your sleep, recreation or work?
Thank you for your comment. I think the US elites' wealth comes from exploiting labor. The European worker is doing better than the US worker because they don't let themselves get brainwashed like the idiot who replied to you earlier.
@@youtubeaccount5673 You honestly live in a bubble, not everywhere does it take an hour to reach your office. Not every country has congestion and traffic like the US does.
Most communities in other parts of the world do not live like that in the US. You can bicycle your way to work in 10-15 mins in a lot of places.
US is one of the worst cases of too much capitalism and company oriented culture. You guys are being overworked without realizing it and taking pride in it.
Hussle culture and all of these buzzwords are laughed at by the rest of the world. These "gurus" promoting 100 hour work weeks and hussle culture are nothing but clowns. Ofc you can decide to live in an echo chamber and continue to believe what you do.
Imagine a guy on public TV saying if you "quite quit" you are not working for me. Dude who wants to work for you? If you cannot respect your employees nobody will want to work there.
*ITS NOT QUIET QUITTING* its doing the work you are paid to do...
Where I live the concept of answering work emails after work is f-uked up. In any nearby countries, it is illegal for your boss to send you them.
For years...bosses kept saying, "if you don't like you job, then quit."
Guess what, we all took that advice.
Truth
Those are also the bosses now wondering where are all of the workers. Pifft. 😒This is everywhere. Even Asian nations are practicing this,,, it's called tang ping, "lying down" which is to do the bare minimal for survival.
I swear. It happened in my office too. The manager kept saying he will remove who is not working well. Then got mad the lady decided to quit.
@@kanikagaral7637 can we all agree that no one should work more than 40 hours.
@@Swede.from.Boston yeah 40 hrs is good and if overtime is done people should be paid for that
Everywhere I’ve heard of this behavior online, it’s usually just called “setting boundaries“. It’s laughable to think that’s synonymous with quitting your job.
The propaganda is strong.
not quitting your job, quitting your job at 5pm
It's American Culture. The Germans are known as very productive workers, yet they don't work much overtime, if at all. In Germany, if you're working overtime, you're not being efficient enough, rather than "going above and beyond".
@@Jo-Heike lol. Of course, the Germans always have to come out on top of everything…
But I do agree with your statement about being an efficient worker.
This. Exactly.
"If you're quiet quitting, you're definitely not working for me!"
That's the point.
I know right lol
Like who would wanna work for u.. good luck finding someone that doesnt have a life
@@pm200183 I'd rather focus on how to take him out of business! If you're working for someone thats just exactly what you're doing
Maybe one of the sharks will escape from the tank and jump up on the yacht and eat him!!! 🎉🎉🎉🎉
"if you're not giving raises, you're definitely not using me!"
Unbelievable how CNBC managed to turn this issue in favour of companies. Quiet quitting does not mean we don't work, it means we set boundaries. It's called a 9/5, not a 24/7.
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Facts
It's not unbelievable, CNBC is one of those companies.
Exactly my thoughts!!!
Wait, you guys work 9-5? I work 6: 30-5 :(
Not for much longer. Tables are turning. Quiet quitting is pathetic.
Kevin O'leary: "If you're a quiet quitter, you're not working for me."
Me: "Sounds good."
Also the "Hopefully we'll see employees being productive and employers being successful" closing line was an interesting way to tell on themselves. ~Just doing your job isn't good enough, you need to be working as hard as you possibly can so I can be rich!~
sorry, Kevin. I have better things to do than make you more $ Millions.
Me: it’s fine I got my business that finally took off and my side hustles.
Kevin O'leary bought and pushed FTX. He is a LOSER.
Millionaires who get butt hurt
"I came here to work, not to serve." One of the memorable quotes my coworker ever spoken at the office.
Unsatisfied with Work or Worker-Rights?
Try 'Some More News' and 'Second Thought'.
I will comment this here multiple times so dont confuse me with a Bot.
Awesome quote. How I'm feeling at work now.
Yeah, the same morons who conflate "work" with "entitlement".
I have the perfect cure for "quiet quitters" - start your own business, hire employees. I'll wait.
@@loturzelrestaurant"Some More News" is good but I don't like Second Thought. He bootlicks China a little too much in a lot of his videos
“Most overworked and most underpaid generation”. Never rang more true.
Most times it amazes me greatly how I moved from an average lifestyle to earning over $63k per month, Utter shock is the word. I have understood a lot in the past few years that there are lots of opportunities in the financial market. The only thing is to know where to invest.
@@Florencecoxx I keep wondering how people earn money in financial markets, i tried trading bitcoin on my own made a huge loss and now I'm scared of investing more.
@@Florencecoxx You allow people to trade for you? that's interesting, I would love to learn, hope it’s safe?
@Queen OF Love This is the Fourth time I'm seeing someone talking about Mr Gary as there are lot of testimonies about him, do you know him ? if yes , did you invest with him.?
@@izagdlife It's 100% safe,I basically do nothing but collect profits, he was able to get me in early on most of these stocks and I exited just at the right time, his analysis was really on point.
Quiet quitting means not giving 120% like their parents did for years to a company who not only were never rewarded for the effort but were let go for younger talent to take their place. The younger workers saw the abuse and refuse to go down that path.
Whatever. Their parents did slacking at work which is no different from
Quiet quitting. Millennials and GenZ are doing nothing new.. just a bunch of slackers like their parents.
As well, large amounts of overtime these days does not equate to more pay on your cheque, in fact it often is LESS because you are bumped into a different tax bracket. I went above and beyond for years and it NEVER benefited me and ended up affecting my health. So not worth it and rarely appreciated but expected once you start .
@@debbietodd8547 Thats not how tax brackets work. You always make more when working paid OT, just might not be worth it.
That's my thought as well, working n living as it should, won't giving all of my time just for work
The 24/7 access to technology wasn’t as available when the older generations were working. It was a lot harder to expect people to keep working without cell phones and the internet being what they are now. Just because people now can work around the clock, doesn’t mean they should.
Simple facts: Most jobs will pay you just enough for you not to quit and most employees will work just enough not to be fired. I think is a fair deal. I’m sorry, but the reality is that the company will never go above and beyond for you, so why would you go above and beyond for it?
Agree
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Yes this is called free market.
I wish other people were this, simply put, aware. It's not wrong to say what you said just simply stating the facts. Some people will say, "oh, you're lazy." It's so easy for people to be ignorant rather than to accept the truth we are all just human in the end
Facts
Oh the horror, people doing what they’re paid to do without extra free labor! What is the world coming to?? 🤡
Quiet! Quitter...
🤣🤣👏🏽👏🏽
you're not going to make it. NGMI.
Lol exactly
I do not believe that today workers are NOT paid for extra hours. On one hand they complain about low wages on the other hand they do not show that they want to earn more .
DO not complain about inflation . You are asking more $$ for labor , i am going to ask for more money for my product and services .
It have to balance out somewhere .
If companies want employees to go above and beyond then the company also has to go above and beyond.
Like which company for an instance?
Agreed.
Respect, and then Loyalty should be earned, not just demanded - by *both* parties involved.
@@Howardm-fy8irwhat a silly question to ask….all companies, duh.
@@Howardm-fy8ir Any company that has staff. You get what you pay for. Don't let them fool you into believing that they don't already know this or can't afford it. Soaring corporate profits and executive/shareholder compensation tell a different story. They're gonna fight to keep that.
The only people mad about “quiet quitting” are the people that advantage of their workers🤣 he really said “if you’re quiet quitting, you’re not working for me” was I supposed to be hurt lmao
They're scared of the workers, that's why
He’s just mad that no one really wants to work for him but won’t say it.
people should not work with this guy，you’re not working with me? How dare he
That' same guy was a spokesperson for SBF. Criminals conspire
you can serve me coffee at Panera and put in your 20 hours per week. no one's mad at you. i'll tip you too.
What's described as "quiet quitting" is totally normal work/life balance in many countries in Europe...
Germans are known for their productivity, and they don't work overtime. If you work overtime in German, something has gone wrong.
Yet we are supposed to be a free nation where there is a constitutional amendment saying we cannot be force into servitude without compensation. And employers are allowed to hold people's livelihoods over their heads.
And that’s why y’all are a hot socialist mess
I work for a software company based in UK online with 5 hours time difference. I work 9:00-18:00 local time. They asked me to work out of my work hours only a few times in 2 years. And that is mostly caused by time difference. They always paid for that extra hours. I had burnout in my past job, quit it and had severe depression for a year. I am happy with my new job and I am productive.
yes, but US and Europe are two very different.
If a person is doing their job, and getting their tasks completed, that is not quitting
Are we supposed to be scared of chicken pox or monkey pox now
@@n3wt what the hell are you even talking about ?
Quiting over task out side your job title...tgey expect more for less $$$
You know, you're not wearing enough flair for my liking. I was hoping you would want to express yourself
If you want people to work and go above and beyond then pay them to do so
Hard work gets rewarded with more work.
And more money if you're adding real value, not just making a head count.
@Howardm-fy8ir That isn't always the case. Why are you so adamant on this issue? You're ignoring all of these people's personal stories that contradict your hilariously narrow world view.
@@Howardm-fy8iryeeeaaaaa, no
@@Howardm-fy8ir I smell CEO
exactly
Please make a video about "quiet firing" - where your employer doesn't go above and beyond, but only pays you what is agreed upon upfront.
💯💯💯
Exactly,
Why should he?!
Entitlement abounds. Open your own company. You'll see
CNBC would NEVER do that.
@@marvinstorm9153 he should go above and beyond for the same reasons that make us talk about quiet quitting in the first place.
You can't expect your employee to go above and beyond, while you aren't doing it either.
Isn’t it absolutely insane that not answering work emails out fo work hours has its own special term?
That's what they mean by quiet quitting?! That's really weird..it used to be called being off work
EXACTLY. The workaholic culture is so forced on us that people don´t understand very simple concepts such as only be available during work hours.
@@specialiseesi6746 it's like being upset at a bus driver for not driving the bus after work....it's not a thing lol! Let people have lives!
Yeah it always has to have a special term. That said, why am I working to make someone else successful and then get laid off because they don't want to reduce their salary\bonus?
@@specialiseesi6746 and the supervisor or managers get the big bonuses for your hard work so you can stress after you are out of the office or off the clock!
I miss when the dislike button still shows.
Quiet quitting isn't about not giving your best or disengagement, it's about companies respecting your personal time.
The video has 11k dislikes. Get the chrome plugin you can see them
Lol I hated public dislikes 😂when I had my little singing videos 😂so happy they are private now hahahaha
@@NadiaPink Nah you can get a plugin to view them on the chrome store.
RUclips removed the Dislike button to try and make Biden and the left look better
It's about a lot more than what you said.
It should be "people don't want to be slaves anymore! " Instead of "people don't want to work anymore" Many people, particularly the younger generation, use a range of unconventional methods of earning a living these days. I worked in the retail for over 10 years, so l'm quite happy that this is taking place. For too long, retail bullied me and a lot of my employees/colleagues saying things like "if you don't like it,go; another like you is waiting to get into your position " since the COVID, I found a job that helps me grow, pays me more and Values Me Social media cleared the way for a rapidly expanding market, and it taught us a lot. 2020 was my turning point, and investment helped alot!
You're very right.
There's almost nothing interesting or motivating about 9-5 anymore
The majority of this new generation loves working remotely and prefers to be their own boss!
yeah the 2020 pandemic gave everyone a big rethink! I tried a lot of things; I realised I shouldn't just let my savings sit around in the bank, tried side hustles. It paid off! Right now I’ve got less work time, time for my family and stick making the 6 figures
Speaking about investing, what worthwhile Investments are you making? And how do you do it ? I can learn and put my savings into good use
Having to spend time with Family, that's the real MVP! 🏆 Time is your major asset as a human but these corporation try to steal it sadly.
I don’t know why people call it quiet quitting. This movement is just about not killing yourself for a job or career. This should be the normal. Do your job while you are on the clock and that’s it. No more no less.
I think it should be changed to “acting your wage”
Laughs in Asia
It’s a North American thing.
That attitude will get FIRED! Now the economy is OK; when the economy tanks, you will be the first one to get laid off, and employees with great work ethics, the ones go above and beyond, will be appreciated and stay on the job.
@@SamA-ho8uj man your employer must be able to get away with a lot from you.
I didn't know that "doing your job you're paid for" was considered quiet quitting. You get paid for a set amount of work, once work is done, you've done your job.
This speak volumes to the entitlement of many businesses that refusing to do more than you're supposed to is considered "quiet quitting".
People should respect boundaries. Where I work, the working hours is flexible so some people might work at 10am and log off at 6pm or start at 7 and end the day at 3pm and I have enough respect for my coworkers to be aware of what time certain people get off so whatever questions I have can wait til the next working day.
Well now you know. 😊
It’s like that douchenozzle CEO/investor loudmouth said in the full non-redacted interview: he stated something to the effect that there are 8 days a week and 25 hours in a day (if not exactly this).
He’s a fine example of the insane running the asylum.
I thought the same thing. This response most likely indicates they have been getting away with this behavior for far too long, therefore, now it is simply expected. But let's be real...they were & are making a lot of profit off the slave labor of those with the "audacity" to "quiet quit." I mean it could always be worse...the quitting could be happening a lot more loudly & in a far more organized way😳😉😜
If you are a salaried employee like I was you are expected to work a certain number of hours off site.
Quiet quitting is the result of companies trying to get more productivity done with less personnel. Burn out from too much work destroys the moral of the workforce.
Agreed, 100%. They take advantage of that and it’s annoying bc they think this is Judy normal or that there’s no way around it, the pay is bad
Then that’s your fault, do people really think that corporations care about you? You chose to work at a low income job so too bad 😂
@@supermananimationsstudios8519 company fault if they are seeing a high turnover rate.
I'm burnt out
Exactly! Many of my colleagues resigned and transferred to different companies because of burn out, worst of all HR freezes hiring new employees and the work load from the vacant positions was distributed for us to fill in. And they also added administrative tasks (Salesforce, paperworks, datas, etc.) to compensate for losses during the pandemic. I am now really thinking of quitting.
Don't ask for time off any more, you earned the time, just take it. Quiet quitting is exposing that these companies need employees more than we need them.
Really? Do tell...
Employees don’t just do this on a whim, they have to be driven to it. It screams “failure to lead staff properly”.
It speaks volumes about how messed up the American work culture is that it's considered quitting to simply work the hours you're paid for. Everything beyond that is actually unpaid labor.
The bosses are trying to brainwash people and make them afraid
Actually, that's the core principle of capitalism: pay workers less than the value they add.
More messed up is other country try to follow everything what this us companies do
Well come to India then, it's brutal we start at 10 and go till 8 in the night nearly everyday. If I don't work they will replace me anyways as there are millions of people waiting to snatch your jobs
@@vishalkumar-dr8wq tell them to come to America then
It's not quiet quitting, it's working the hours agreed upon when you were hired
How is this so hard to understand? The occasional weekend phone call is acceptable. However, we are now expected to answer the phone or check emails at any time. Employers do not own employees or their time outside of paid hours. And that's only one reason ...
Bingo. When our employers refuses to pay overtime, yet keep adding and adding all the after hours works off the book..... And when we demand that we need our OT paid and justified, and then got retaliations in the end. CIAO.
Exactly. If you’re expected to work outside of those hours, it needs to be stated and compensation is to be provided. Can’t get away with exploiting workers in this labor market, and employers are reeling.
@@joefly6483 "The occasional weekend phone call is acceptable."
NO
I used to go "above and beyond" for my company until I stepped back and realized, I was being treated the same as those who did the "bare minimum" or just worked a typical 40 hour week. I would skip lunch breaks to get work done, I would come home close to midnight on most days, and I would wake up the next day, only to do it all over again. When my annual performance review came around, I got a 3% raise. A 3% raise was a $2 dollar increase for me. WooHoo! All that hard work and that's what I got back in return. Better than throwing us a pizza party I suppose.
It took some serious blows to realize that bending over backwards for a company is simply not worth it. If you died tomorrow, your company would replace you in a week. I agree with the comments under this video...if your company is not going above and beyond for you, why should you be doing the same for them? I'm glad to see that people are fighting back on employee exploitation and setting boundaries for themselves. The pandemic really opened everyone's eyes and corporate America can't handle it.
Last week the CEO of the hospital I work at sent out a long-winded email about how we had a great fiscal year and made lots of money, all thanks to us fantastic employees who make it possible. Then in a meeting the following Monday the director said that our annual raise was only going to be 3% because that's all they can afford. After that, they proceed to play a video about how we cured some girls cancer with my division's breakthrough miracle viral vector. It was a lame attempt to tug on our heartstrings after telling us about a sub-par raise. All that does is motivate me to job hunt.
*Corporate America can't afford it
Ohhhh you already made $67 an hour and only got a two dollar raise in a tight economy?? Poor you
@@Andreas-iv8ym even if this were true it's not the right response. " Workers " need to stick together, or they'll use this type of argument to separate us and just pay others a lower but still unfair wage.
It doesn't become "your" problem until it's "your" problem and you are not the one getting what seems fair to you, but this is a worker vs owner/management issue. We need to stick together or we will lose this fight.
@@Andreas-iv8ym What are you smoking where you think anyone doing the grunt work in research is making $67 an hour?
People are realizing working then dying isn't a great plan; and buying yourself stuff in between to make yourself feel better doesn't work anymore.
This!
This!!
Peace in Christ surpasses all understanding. 😆. This video says nothing about The Lord 🤪
@@Shaolin91z
This is so true.
I am not young and still know many people who are slaves to material things and possessions.
It’s funny how these people don’t seem to get the deeper issue. People don’t want to live their lives working all day. It’s just not worth it.
Yep. Long story short I worked for a company from 19 to 25. At 1 point I worked 19 days in a row. I worked almost every holiday because I didn't have kids, and I never called out. When the company decided to sale the building to expand at a different location, they let everyone know on a Thursday that we'd be jobless by Monday. My outstanding work ethic didn't matter any more or less than the guy who called out once a week.
I will never work arder for a business than I work for myself. I lost the first half of my 20's doing that.
Sure and wait for the government to give you everything. its called socialism and BTW it doesn't work
But homelessness is real
I think calling it “quiet quitting” does a lot of harm in terms of framing the concept in peoples minds. It’s not quitting- it’s doing what you’re there (and getting paid) to do and closing the laptop and going about your life thereafter. Really can’t say I disagree with that
Plus, it shifts the blame to workers for wanting a healthier work-life balance, as opposed to the companies and managers that refuse to pay a proper raise with any sort of benefits while giving CEOs a boost in their salary.
Quiet is better than violet or murderous = I am ok with it.
Yeah, i agree. Quiet quitting to me sounds like quiting a job one day and never showing up after that. I think a better term for it would be finishing a shift. Im also purplexted that this is getting attention of news? This is not a new thing; its been happening since the dawn of working careers
I actually had been doing this when I was in the job market when I was younger.
I don't think its 'new', I just think its happening more frequently.
My last job I held before starting my own business was at a factory, my job was to deliver packages to the higher-ups, and to deliver sensitive urgent packages across departments, for QA testing or whatever else.
Anyways, they kept asking me to do more, without a pay increase.
It started with only cleaning here and there, dusting, a little mopping, but eventually, I was essentially a full-time cleaner, tasked additionally with inventory management of the entire factories PPE equipment, AND I stocked all of the PPE in the entire factory, again, without a pay increase.
The main reason I didn't protest was because they weren't difficult to work for, and gave me allot of freedom in how my job was done, when I did what, when I chose my lunch break, etc.
I was helping them, so in return, I was given freedom.
So for me, it was fine.
The main breaking point for me was when I made a mistake, I forgot to deliver a package and left it at the front desk, first time ever, apparently they called my manager, who got all angry that I forgot it.
He then called me into his office, and wrote me up for 'not doing my duties' and outlined my 'job route', aka my job duties, and told me I needed to do them, and essentially tried to tighten the leash around my neck for no reason.
The funny part was, all the extra stuff required of me was NOT on the route.
So I conceded, and said I'd do exactly what was on the sheet.
Next day, he calls me in to complain that I'm not 'doing my job', I told him I was doing my job, what was on the sheet, as I was told, and nothing else.
He then created a new sheet, which also had errors and missing duties.
Several attempts later he is obviously extremely fed up with me, and I'm very fed up with him, he started to write me up over non-sensical things, whatever he could, he and the other manager told me I was 'replaceable' and they could 'do my job' so I essentially needed to get in line.
They told me my new office was going to be located in the same office as the managers, in my opinion it was an attempt to shadow me for replacement.
Keep in mind, I had designed new systems for this job on my work PC, entire inventory management systems, that were updated, etc, to help them out, I was generally good with tech, too good to be an employee at this place, and all of it was MINE and only used by me, and, the only person who taught me the job duties, the ins and outs, the little things not listed, and knew the job well was the previous employee, who was obviously gone now.
Needless to say I quit without notice after that discussion, and reveled in the fact I knew they were severely f*cked without me, and a massive multi-million dollar factory was going to suffer significantly due to their ego's.
It's a conspiracy. The rich elite created this term in order to create stigma and out a negative light on workers just doing their jobs and not overworking.
Half of quiet quitting just sounds like what is supposed to be normal work/life boundaries.
All of "quiet quitting" sounds like an employee setting boundaries and saying they won't work extra hours for free or have to constantly check for emails or surprise work when they are supposed to be relaxing or getting other responsible stuff done on their time off.
My wild guess is pre-COVID, employers were able to keep up the illusion that employees were easily replaceable and if you weren't willing to do "x" (insert unreasonable and uncompensated demand here), they'd fire you and hire someone who would. Now that employers are having a harder time getting employees, they weep and wail and gnash their teeth that "nobody wants to work" anymore when its really just that we're tired of being overworked, underpaid, and exploited.
Feels like it’s a made-up term by middle and upper management post-COVID because they realized they cannot control their workers. So quite quitting just mean average when they want exceptional.
@OtterMarten 0
"Half" ?
Quiet quitting is a stress response. When you feel disrespected by your employer you might lash out at other employees (fight response). When you feel disengaged, you don't participate in work events (flight response). When you feel anxious or fearful from a manager who is demanding (freeze response). When you feel you have to do it all (fawning response). Basically all your energy is in survival and you don't have the capacity to go beyond the parameters of a regular work day. The cortisol is flowing through your body for 8 hours straight - this is not normal for the human body.
Great thought Connie ..
💯 and in America more people die from stress filled jobs, and turn to Alcohol or drugs (I prefer weed) to help ease the suffering from these toxic jobs.
@@METALHEAD550weed makes the trick of faking being good employees when the only thing that matters is smoking pot, b#st a Nu-t and listen some music away from corporations ties. F' minimum wage b@stard employers!
This is spot on.
So well said 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
I don’t know about anybody else, but personally, I’m excited to see so many people realizing that workers have the power. The system has been broken for FAR too long and workers are saying, NOPE. We won’t tolerate further exploitation.
Please SAY THIS LOUDER!!!!! after covid companies said nobody wants to work. Nobody wants to go back to this toxicity of living life making companies rich at our expense. Low pay no real raises except pennies and no balance with home and burn put and mental health issues. Fix this!!!! People will work if you pay them what they are doing for your company and not more than that.
POWER TO THE PEOPLE
It sounds like communism and I loved, Power to the people!
@@b.curupira4683 lmao actually, in communist countries the leaders have absolute power
I love this! Finally.
When you’re a hard worker, your employer just takes advantage of you. It just leads to abuse and burnout.
Yep. Plus, they don’t promote people who are solving lots of problems where they are.
it took a while for workers to realize this AND actually act...I'm my early 20s when i started to work, i couldn't believe why so many people were trying to work and go above and beyond for their employers, I mean they're going to be multimillionaires from the excessive work, their bosses will lol. But finally people are realizing it.
💯 I learnt this the hard way.
I know this feeling. I have been in my job for 7 years now and last year (2022) was one of the hardest we had. Our team worked really hard and I most of all. Our supervisor announced he was resigning just before Christmas and the manager announced they were spliting his role into two team leader roles. I applied for one of the two roles (as a large number of the office was almost begging me to go for it) and 2 days after putting in the application the manager told me they would not accept the application as I "had no team leader skills" and they wanted a strong person to lead the growing team. I had applied for the full role four years ago and was told I would receive help in obtaining the skils required but four years later, nothing has been done. I will be expected to teach the new person what they need to do in the role given my experiance. It has left me with a great discouragement in regards to trusting management.
@@michaelpapadopoulos3756 did they ever hire a supervisor for that roll
"Act your wage" as a former workaholic, I support this.
Been at same company for 3 years now. My “above and beyond” never got me a raise. I will be doing the bare minimum required.
Also while looking for other work
It´s not "Quiet Quitting". It´s "Acting Your Wage".
I like that phrase "acting your wage", going to use it from now on
Well said!
Well said!
YESSSSSS
"Overtime is not the triumph of the workforce, it's the failure of the management." - Jim Sterling
narhhh that depends, if overtime is a regular thing then it's failure on the management but of it is occasionally due to emergencies or other stuffs then it's fairly normal and has to be paid though
Wow, hard words of truth right there.
it depends on the type of business.
If you have a factory, a particular machine produces 400 parts in 8 hours, and the client needs 450 per day, you need the team that runs the machine to work 9 hours instead of 8.
I heard that sentence several times from people that never worked with anything besides excel sheets, and email. The real World does not work like that.
This quote is half true.
Overtime can be caused by many things - not just failure of management.
Supply chain backed up, backlogged backorders, and then all of a sudden shipments showing up at once - thus causing overtime to get orders out fast (to maintain sales and revenue)…. Is not failure of management.
A handful of employees calling out sick for the stomach bug and it causes other employees to work overtime to get orders out…..is not failure of management.
Huge increase in sales…overtime is needed.
I could list many more examples.
In all, overtime is not (necessarily) caused by failure of management.
For the people who have an issue with overtime….that usually means you’re doing your job correctly, not managing your time correctly, and not prioritizing.
@@tzdgonz it is not a miss in management if you are limited by what the machinery can do in 8 hours, and your client wants a larger quantity.
You can tell your client no, but instead of overtime you end up with no client.
As a quiet quitting truck driver, the only time I go the extra mile is when I miss my exit 👆🏾 I'm here to perform a job based on agreed up on wages and tasks expected of me. Outside of that, I got nothing more to give. Fair is fair.
im a mailman and same here, i do like my job but if your driveway isn't cleared of snow, car parked in front of the mailbox or ur dog is loose ur mail can wait till tomorrow
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Totally fair 💯
Lol people are so emotional when it comes to the work relationship on both ends! If they just see the transaction as a business for both the worker and the employer then it’s fair to say that what you pay for is what you get! If a worker is not satisfied with their pay they will only do what they feel is worth their pay and vice versa if an employer is unsatisfied with the amount of work they are getting out of the employee then they fire them and hire someone else! The thing with quiet quitters is that they are doing enough of the work where the employer still needs them and doesn’t feel it’s worth firing the employee and going through the hassle of rehiring and training someone new for the job! This is why it frustrates the employer because they are paying for something that is near fair value and not a bargain for them! Employers need to be realistic in their expectations because they can’t expect a Ferrari or Lambourgini if they are trying to pay the price equivalent of a Honda Civic! The worker who decides to quiet quit is actually very business minded and knows their worth! Doing enough not to get fired but at the same time ensuring boundaries are in place from further exploitation!
Amen to that
LETS NORMALIZE THIS. I have a life outside of work, and that shouldn’t be brought into work, or at home when I’m off work.
In Europe, this is even protected by law. And years ago France introduced a law, that employees don’t have to answer emails after end of work or weekends.
And Europe for all intents and purposes, broke.
It's sad that a law has to be put in place for this in the first place.
This is amazing! They must care more about the family there.
I have seen some high level people hating this culture rather than understanding the reason why this rule was at first place.
@@tsjoshi Lol what?
This movement is a step in the right direction, Companies are calling this quite quitting to make us feel bad about not doing unpaid overtime. With rise of more freelance work opportunities, and better work culture. Traditional companies would now have to think about the Work life balance.
Joke's on them. Calling it quiet quitting actually makes me wanna do it longer
It’s a bit concerning that it’s considered a issue if someone isn’t working over their employment agreement, if you paid for 40 hours (normal work week) then that’s the amount the of time the company can expect. Especially when some companies refuse or contractually say they don’t pay overtime. Time is money right?
People who dont go above and beyond need to be happy to never get a raise and never get promoted.
Any slip up and they deserve to be fired immediately
@@jupiterjames4201 I don't know. I got some good raises and perks at work for working hard and working overtime and always being available. But please continue to follow this trend, it'll be less competition for guys like us. You do what works best for you.
@@jupiterjames4201 and conversely, employers should be happy to give all employees that do go above and beyond a raise and/or a promotion, not just recognition ... its a two way street.
@@alexmendez3681 it's not necessarily the case. There are many talented people who follow their work hour and then there are less talented people who have to drag themselves till night to accomplish same thing. If your work is done. Move on. If not then complete it somehow.
In the 1970s and 1980s we called this "maintaining a healthy work/life balance." Then it was easier, because if the boss called after hours and I wasn't at home, they would have to leave a message on my answering machine on my home phone.
Listening to O'leary, it hit me hard that he wants his employees to work extra hours and give up watching their kids soccer matches for no additional compensation. If his employees are salaried, thereby exempt from the federal overtime pay laws, while not paying them for their overtime is not illegal, it is a form of wage theft.
I think it boils down to pay. If you want employees to be on call 24/7, then pay them accordingly.
Employers don’t care. That’s not their job. At least that’s what they say. I don’t believe in such things
Or AT LEAST stipulate it in your contract. All of the free market republicans and libertarians here seem to be overjoyed in the comments about employers not following their contracts.
It's not quiet quitting it's acting your wage.
Precisely. Employers should get training on this since they cannot get it through their head that the things they ask for nobody is willing to do for free.
Yep. I have been working for a company where I was on call basically 24/7. Did I get call time? Nope. They would look at you like you like you had 3 heads in you even asked.
Then, my company buys out a competitor that does the same job. Not only did those employees get paid to be on call, they continue to get paid to be on call after we acquire them, and we still don't.
As a bonus. We were trained to support their systems, in addition to ours, so we supported multiple systems while they supported one, yet we still got paid less.
This is the norm, not the exception. No matter who I talk to. Every company now has management that is so utterly clueless and incompetent it is embarrassing. Most of us are literally living in some dystopian Dilbert cartoon. It is like someone took the movie Idiocracy and used that as a model for management training.
As someone in the UK we don't call it quiet quitting. We call it essential respect for your employees. This is so so surreal. Work shouldn't call me after work hours and on weekends, it shouldn't be mad I don't check work emails in my off time, I shouldn't do unpaid overtime routinely. This is standard practice here in the UK. Some break these social rules but they are considered toxic workplaces. And to add to this I work in construction, one of the hardest industries. I'm not a consultant on a laptop in a comfortable office.
I'm Canadian, and I've also never heard of this term until now. I would have just called it a healthy work-life balance. I thought this was accepted everywhere, I'm pretty sure slack(usually used by software devs for communication, and by one of the ladies in the video), by default, disables notifications past a certain point in the day too. I feel bad for professors, because it seemed like a lot of mine didn't know how to just stop checking their email after a certain time, and would write highly detailed high-effort responses late at night and would talk about doing all-nighters to mark our work.
US American work culture is toxic AF.
Let’s be honest UK just copies America. It doesn’t matter what people form uk call it. It matters what Americans call it.
@@simasima9455 we've managed to avoid something's like 25 days holiday and 8 bank holidays as standard, maternity leave and unlimited sick days.
It’s called “work-to-rule”, not quiet-quitting. It’s been a thing for DECADES. Greedy employers/corporations want to penalize workers for having valid boundaries!!
I'm fairly sure that all these people don't know what quitting means. Have they ever quit a job or were they all just fired so they don't even know what they're talking about?
Before E mail all works were quite quitting type
Thank you that's exactly was it is work to rule and often occurs when ppl feel like they are being taken advantage of with no rewards or recognition
@@hermanhoppe3773 quite = quiet
Partially right information. Work-to-rule is a job action used by union backed mostly industrial workers as a preemptive position to be less disruptive than a strike or lockout. Now we have college educated, white collar, tech job, corporate job having GenZ trying to regulate how they want their work day to go. Work-to-rule will bring productive business to a grinding halt. Bus drivers will do 20 point inspections of buses before and during their shifts. Teachers refusing to work for free at night and during weekends and holidays. Refusal to work overtime, travel on duty, or sign up to other tasks requiring employee assent are other manifestations of using work-to-rule as industrial action. Who will volunteer for community events like breast cancer runs, painting over graffiti on walls @ an elementary school, or helping an animal shelter on pet adoption day? All of those free snacks in the staff kitchen and FREE catered lunch on Friday will be things of the past. Companies give back to their staff in other ways when expected to do things outside of their normal work hours. Keep playing this game and it will soon backfire!
a proud quiet quitter here and have never been happier. i was working my ass off and getting no recognition in return. now i dont stress too much work. i still do quality work just dont go 'above and beyond' on a regular basis. its improved the quality of my life so much.
I love the comments about employers being concerned that people aren’t going above and beyond. If you want something more, ask your employee and then compensate them for it.
@Me, myself and I Nameless did you read the comment you replied to?
@@jonathanodude6660 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
This is it. Especially in a tight labor market, but employers are so used to getting handouts.
Yep. Put it in the contract. Everyone knows the company isn’t going to do anything that’s not in a contract.
@eric Spencer Is exploitation part of running a successful business? In all seriousness, if it were legal, would successful businesses use slaves? I think they’d lose an obvious competitive advantage. Again, not a joke. This was an issue a very short time ago.
The hoops they jump through to disengage this as a “wacky trend” instead of millions demanding reasonable working conditions is so American it hurts a little.
My thoughts exactly.
Decades of bootstrap philosophy will do that to a country. Really sad to see.
It's professional gaslighting.
Capıtalist própaganda is a powerful thing.
It's a total wank
Employers need to start treating the working class with respect and pay people what they deserve. Productivity will continue to go down because labor has always been the scapegoat and people are sick of it.
Yes. Employers have been quiet quiting on raising salaries, paying for overtime, providing retirement benefits, etc for decades.
Respect is only given when it's earned first. That's the rule. You gotta put in the hard work and hours.
If people actual worked has hard has they think they do , they would get paid more . Being at work doesn't mean you are actual working. 😴😴on the job.
Having worked in multiple professional environments, I feel like these negative experiences are not the norm. Most employers do treat their employees with respect.
never gonna happen under capitalism... exploitation of labor is inherent to the system.
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How can one get to interview advisors? And what questions should you ask?
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The guy that keep saying"you don't work for me" is exactly who quiet quiting is meant for.
As if anyone wants to be his salary slave. Lmao
A shtty boss who can’t manage his time.
"If you are quiet quitting, you are not gonna be working for me"
"Yes"
"You don't work for me." "*shrugs shoulders* Ok."
That's Mr. Wonderful, Kevin O'Leary from Shark Tank.
This is the most US thing ever. In Europe, we call this “healthy work-life balance”.
And as one of my managers once said: “If you can’t do everything that’s expected from you within the allocated hours, we need to revise how those 8-9 working hours are spent”
Yeah the cools and all but the US has a very different history. Over here we have an overwork culture that developed thanks to the protestants that founded the country. Frankly it's about damn time we get rid of this mindset.
I have a business, and can't imagine asking someone to work on their free time without compensation. I was unaware that large corporations required this of their employees. It seems more like slavery than employment. It used to be illegal to require employees to work "off the clock". Employers must have found a loophole. I find it reprehensible, and demeaning. Employees need their personal space, and time to recharge. There are 40 golden hours. After that productivity diminishes exponentially. Large corporations are notorious for inefficiency, and this is a prime example.
Quiet quitting seems like a misnomer created by poor leadership.
@@YourChannel-r4v I do that, and overfill my schedule.
@@YourChannel-r4v
This is why you need a remote job.
I finish my work fast too so I end up watching a movie or going on youtube.
@@qua7771 100% accurate
How about employers hiring enough people to do the job instead of expecting an employee to be 2 for the price of 1? That trend has been going on far too long. Happy to see employees sticking up for themselves. And what about employers who have not been compensating their workforce properly yet often absent and living like kings?
Stop crying
@@jakelamotta7904 he’s not wrong, it’s just common sense
@@jakelamotta7904 lol I bet you think all gen z and millennials are lazy.
👏👏
having to pay two peoples wages for a better experience on worker and consumer??? 🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺 awww wouldnt want corporate to get 1% less profit awwww
Another reason could be due to the rise of nepotism and B-grade managers. I'm a big advocate of working in an office, but I've noticed that after the pandemic, companies are hiring bad managers through their networks to save costs. This is giving carte blanche to managers who are subpar in their fields and is effectively making the workplace toxic.
It’s nothing new at all...
I used to worry about going the extra mile, putting in 50 hours a week, constantly worrying about work, then my perspective changed drastically watching two folks I cared about ruin their lives over a job.
The first was a darn good lawyer, one of the first females practicing law in our area. She was in a prestigious firm and was a partner. Her clients wanted her to cover their cases since she one of the best around. She got sick, put off going to the doctor because her case load was high and she did not want to let her clients and firm down. When she did go it was in an ambulance. After the cancer diagnosis she postponed surgery based on her court dates. The cancer killed her and she went to work that morning. Within three days a new lawyer was in her office taking her place. She believed that she was indispensable, when really she was just another lawyer filling an office.
The second was my father-in-law. He was a CPA, and retired. He decided to go back to work part time and full time during tax season and work for an accounting company. He is a diabetic, he cut his foot during tax season, and it was not healing well. Instead of going to the doctor he put it off because his work load was high. He ended up loosing half his foot and missed 3 weeks of work. When he returned, he was handed his pink slip because he missed work and they needed to hire someone else to cover the accounts.
Moral of the story in my book, your job is a job, it’s not worth your life, health, or well being….
Exactly. That story repeats itself around 1000x every minute. People killing themselves as somehow they have been led to believe if they just work hard, and sacrifice their lives for the company, they will get rewarded some day.
Yet, that rarely ever happens. All the work goes to the bottom, all the rewards go to the top. THAT is the core issue. The myth that you get what you put in is just that, fiction.
Sadly too many people think like your father-in-law and friend. They will work themselves to death for some company. When said company will replace, lay off, or fire in a heart beat if it was in their best interest.
People have been conditioned to think the company cares about them.
Yep. I had a coworker who kept driving his truck in bad weather because our company pushed him to keep going. He wanted to be a good worker and the company said they wanted the shipment on time. The weather made him crash and demolish the truck and shipment, THEN the company fired him. So not only did he almost lose his life trying to be a good slave, but he also got fired, too.
Work probably wasn't the real cause here for them. Some people are just stubborn and choose not to go the dr etc because they are avoiding it. People don't take care of themselves all the time that has little to nothing to do with work. They don't want the bad news or don't want to deal with it.
I think this speaks more to how employees have been abused for years and are “waking up” now, rather than them becoming lazy or something. We (employees) allowed this situation to get this bad by allowing employers to walk all over us for years. Quiet quitting is vital to resetting the balance. Also f*** Kevin O’Leary. Did you see how angry he was about it? That’s exactly the reaction we want to see from the power hungry rich people. It means it works.
Kevin is overvalued himself and his company
He says "if you want a 9to5 then time off to go enjoy a soccer game, those people don't work for me." he doesn't want workers, it sounds more like he wants slaves man. If I worked for someone who said they didn't want me spending time with friends/family/myself I would think they're psychopaths. Maybe it works for single men/women who just want to make fat stacks but for people who want to LIVE life nah.
Yup you are right. I'm wondering what to do which will have an impact?
Just hope a big company makes a huge chance in their system and the chain should be spoiled. Worth it.
Big MFS like Kevin, Jeff make so many trillions and exploit others.
Really hard to even make unity amongst employees, cause all have problems and are too broad minded.
I fail to see anything wrong with people just doing what their employers do for them. The bare minimum.
Because you devalue your own ability to work. You always want to be worth more than you are getting paid, as it means you always have opportunity to make more.
Race to the bottom economics. I pay 1 dollar less. I earn you one dollar less.
@@melissabodily3675 just because my boss have to endure the stress of owning a bussiness doesnt mean I got to suffer with him. it was his idea to do it, im literally just a guy working to pay my lunch
@@melissabodily3675 Corporate Drone Alert 🚨
@@ShaieneKun Hey Rafael, don't listen to this dumbitch @Melissa Bodily. It's your life and if you chose to make more money or spend more time with loved ones, friends, ... etc. that's your right. Her BS about suffering in this world when her attitude is the very thing causing the suffering is beyond disgusting. Don't let her or anyone else gaslight you with her corporate doublespeak. Take care of yourself and your family. You are one of the good people of this world and she is definitely not.
We can't even shut up and do our work peacefully without getting involved in office politics or office drama, without being called "quiet quitters" is disgusting!
The person who invented this word is probably a salty employer who can't keep his talents around
“Quiet Quitting” is such a misnomer. You can be an outstanding and exceptional employee without neglecting your personal life. If your boss thinks that you not answering an email over the weekend is somehow you being lazy, then your boss is a tyrant.
Look at it from the boss's perspective: Why would they want to pay someone for eight hours of work and only get eight hours from it, when they could find someone more dedicated who will work for ten hours while being paid for eight?
If your boss' idea of a good employee is someone who answers an email on the weekend, their eye isn't on the ball. Profitable employees find ways to reduce the resources required to do whatever the company does. Don't give points for effort.
@@vylbird8014 Then pay that sucker ill go work else where.
@@devinmcmanus Work smarter, not harder. Exactly. Plus a lot of the things employers stack on for extra tasks without explanation are just exploitation, and physical labor meant to exclude disabled and/or neurodivergent workers.
If it's a salaried job, they can call it 8 hours or 10 hours a day, but that's not what I'm hung up about. I just want the option to negotiate my salary down to 30 or even 20 hours a week. But that's not an option in the US because our health insurance is tied to our employment status, and our healthcare insurance costs are the same no matter how many hours we work per day. So naturally, employers are going to want to milk us for as many hours as we got. Let's decouple healthcare from employers, and that's a first step to resolving this problem.
I'm proud that employees are starting to learn to enforce better boundaries with the companies that've taken advantage of them for so long. There is nothing wrong with only doing the work you are paid for.
Never going to get ahead that way. Just going to bump along the bottom the rest of there life. I guarantee they do the same in there personal life.
I really hope they are like that in their personal life as well :) Proper boundaries are necessary for healthy and functional relationships.
@@tira2145 Have you worked in a job? Working hard isn't the way anymore. there is so much favoritism, "getting ahead" means letting yourself get exploited. I've seen what " getting ahead" was, "missing breaks and skipping lunches," covering positions that pay more for less and throw you back into your position. There's no movement anymore without any ass-kissing. management want more, than pay more.
@@Kitteh413 so never go out of the way to help someone? It's no different at work. A coworker is struggling, you help them. But your just a selfish loser.
@@TwiztedMannix87 you work at a crap company. That's your problem. I love my job and the company, but we all work close to 100 hours every week. My future and my wealth are really good. It's worth the sacrifice.
I’m no longer bending over backwards and risking my mental health. I learned this the hard way and now I’m trying to get back to a healthy mental state.
Define a healthy mental state...
I love how one guy said- if you’re a quiet quitter you don’t/ won’t work for me. Yes mister, we evolved and adapt to our own personal need. If you want to die full of money, go ahead- bring that to your grave. Don’t drag us along with you- run your company with zero employees, see how that’ll work😂 the ego of some execs are just laughable
Preach!!
I've lived my whole life as a 'quit quitter' back when it wasn't a thing. I found out early on that if I live modestly and did't buy into the consumerism infecting our country, I needed very little time spent earning a living so I had most of my time available to bicycle tour, backpack, kayak, canoe, and sail all over the world. I chose having experiences (some truly adventures) over accumulating stuff and it has made all the difference in the world. Only worked 20 years of my adult life, 72 now, and still out there going strong. Life is short so don't spend too much of it working.
you're 72 and on RUclips? Damn, I wish my parents are as "tech-savy" as you
Man, you‘re awesome, respect.
I considered working as a underwater welder, high end(hard) projects. I'd deal with the risks then retire at 40-42. Not push myself or try to buy 🏍🚗🏠🚲🚤 all over.
Yes Mr Kirk you living example of less is more. Keep riding that bicycle and enjoying life...
Soo in other words you are alone and don't have a family and on your death bed no one will be there...gotcha! Also, what your saying is you have never had responsibilities 👍👍
I have worked for the same company for 8 years. For the first six and a half I went above and beyond in all tasks to make myself stand out as a stellar employee. And I achieved that. Every single yearly review they told me I was one of the top producers in my very large unit. And I was one of the top employees they've ever had. And it got me nothing. No bonus, no raise, no promotion. Every review I was a 10 out of 10 and in the same breath and excuse was given why the Fortune 500 company that I work for didn't have the money to increase my salary at that time based on my work..... So I backed all the way off. I do exactly what is required of me and that is it. I will not work for 30 seconds unpaid now. I will not bust my butt to be the best when it is not rewarded. If you are not going to compensate or promote or financially incentivize me for doing more, you are not going to get any more from me.
So you decided to be average instead...
@@Howardm-fy8ir ....yeah. that's the point. Why in the world would you keep exerting the tremendous effort required to be exceptional. If they will look at you the same when you put in half the amount of effort. I got nothing out of that except exhaustion for nearly a decade. They did not care. So what am I killing myself for?
How's that working out?
@@Howardm-fy8ir it's good. Nothing has changed except that I'm able to give more energy/ time and attention to the pursuits that matter to me. So my life has improved.
Change job I guess?
“Quiet Quitting” is a legal right in Australia. Any company that expects their workers to do anything work related outside their work hours without the workers consent and over time will be prosecuted.
This seriously needs to become law in the US... There's literally no reason for it outside of the wealthy are in power and want to force those under them to work crazy hours and not get compensated for it.
Same here in Ireland. The right to disconnect at 5 was brought in months ago.
Same in Belgium
Yall are lucky people.
And now look at australias economy 😂🤣😂🤣😂
Just think it’s about people setting boundaries for a change realizing their personal life time is of valued importance and more so than their job. When I leave work I don’t check emails, don’t answer the work phone, don’t check on anything related to work. So much so, I let my work phone battery go flat dead in between . I learned a long time ago, going above and beyond got me nowhere when it was time for layoffs, as was layoff just like everyone else even those that never went above or beyond. I respect my private time, away from work.
Why is it not just acceptable to have boundaries ?
Exactly! Please work business during business hours and keep rest days in rest days.
How would their bosses get a million dollar pay hike omg
Because there are competitive people like me who don't have boundaries and don't mind working an hour here and there and it puts you in an unfavorable position. It's called competition. But, you should continue to quiet quit, it'll be less competition and I'm okay with that. Please continue to set your boundaries, I insist!
@@josueravena3464 How would you get your March Madness and Super Bowl parley done if you didn't go into the office, 🤗🤗 Oh Wait🤨🤨
Because Management and Executives are narcissists, generally.
I am an HR professional in the Netherlands. Thank gosh here this is nothing new. We don’t call it “quiet quitting”. This is simply working hours regulations. You work for the hours you are paid for. I don’t “quiet quit”. I simply live a life after work like everybody else does in the Netherlands (with the few workaholics exceptions).
As an expat in Netherlands I can confirm this. It took me two burn outs, HR and ArboUnie interference till I understood that I’m supposed to have life after work and me not replying to late evening emails will not get back on me during my performance review… I like what I was told during this process: If you are constantly forced to work overtimes to finish your work then staffing manager for your department did a poor job.
Exactly
Thank you! i recently started working more with the US in olace of EU based colleagues and the work culture is still very different. I am surprised a norm of having a balanced work life setting is labelled quitting or seen as a shift from the expected norm , lazy or unproductive.
US is a modern slavery system
Companies wanted employees to have "work life balance" and when an employee strikes the right balance, he/she is suddenly "quiet quitting"
"If you only work 9 to 5, and want a life, you will not work for me"
Ok. I do not want to work for you.
It's not "quiet quitting ", it's giving an honest day's work for an honest day's pay.
Heavy on the "Honest" too 😂😂
I am 42 and something in me just broke after I turned 40 during the beginning of the pandemic. I actually admitted to my boss this year that my only goal is to be an employee in good standing on January 1st of every year. She was surprisingly sympathetic.
I don't mind going above and beyond once in a while, but I've never been a career person. Having a job is something that I do so I don't starve to death or have to sleep in the rain. I really have never been engaged with any job that I've had; I do what I need to do, then I go home.
Well said.
I actually relate to this very well except I'm 29, so I suppose people will just say I'm lazy. I work because I have to, not because I want to.
Nothing wrong with simply doing a day’s work for a day’s pay.
same here. If I didn't have to work, I wouldn't
I feel you sis! 🙌
Why is this such a mystery to the manager/CEO class? It's pretty simple. Stagnant wages over the past 40 years, evaporating benefits, poison workplaces. This year CEOs took an average of 23% more home than last year. Year over year they get double digit increases in pay, while the rest of us are told, in no uncertain terms, do more with less, for less pay (adjusted for inflation). I mean it's not rocket science. I think workers have finally had enough and have hit a breaking point of busting their ass, for nothing in return. Yes, it's that simple. But the managers and CEOs are afraid to admit it, because that would mean paying people more for their time. That cuts into THEIR profits/bonuses. They cant have that, so they pretend not to see it. It's so sad.
Yes they chose to not see wherw they can cut. 😔 sad but the only person looking out for you is you. That is the truth. They are just looking out for themselves. So let's stand up for ourselves too!!!
I completely agree not once did the video mention stagnant wage growth, cost of living crisis or high inflation - preferring to pretend its an engagement issue. Cmon its business, why is everyone allowed to be capitalist except for employees. These companies don;t give away free product, so why should we give away free time??
Exactly, US Fortune 500 CEOs earn on average 26 million annually, but the recession will happen because regular employees stop working unpaid overtime, makes total sense
Life is short…the pandemic brought home that reality. So I’m not willing to pass the majority of my time with people that do not care about me. 40 hours a week is enough.
So you'd rather listen to people you don't know telling to gradually slide into mediocre...
People aren't machines. There's a limit to how long you can work an employee. After hours are personal time.
Yup. There’s even data that proves workers become increasingly unproductive after a certain time threshold.
@AJ XOXO Remember what Billy Joel said: Working way too hard gives you a heart attack, ack, ack, ack, ack, ack, you oughtta know by now!
@AJ XOXO you want to know what’s a “loser mentality”? Yours, for thinking that work constantly infringing on after business hours until the resultant burnout sets in is even remotely sustainable. Never run a business with actual people. You’re out of touch with reality and you will fail. Miserably.
@AJ XOXO You're going to realize that one day, all those overtime hours that you spent away from loved ones can never come back.
You're allowed to have a life beyond work where you can spend time with family and the people that truly matter while moving up in your career. Just remember, in the end you are trading the most finite valuable resource that you have: time.
CEO’s are literally threatening a recession based on this. Goes to show how much they hate their employees & how far they’re willing to go to keep us desperate & compliant.
True! And it will backfire. Who will buy their products when we are all unemployed?
Then we just one up them and move into vans by the river. Eff them.
@@watamutha some of their employees (including older people) have already had to do that.
@@IAmTheAnswerer consumer spending has been down before coof19 and the bigs knew it, life's not all about buying crap and working consistently and it's showing big time, and the big bois and girls are mad about it.
We are in a continuous give and take chain. There is only 1 thing that can literally disrupt a company.
Many companies value each second, so if many employees quit together at once by having good unity amongst them, just see the owners ego and life fall.
Just think once these CEO's have climbed so much in life that they have a lot at stake and too much to lose.
Whereas we employees, can just switch companies.
Just because you go above and beyond and put in extra time and effort, doesn't mean it will get you anywhere. It just sets a new bar of expectation.
Usually going above and beyond gets you the reward of more work.
It secures your job.
@@networth00 that’s what they want you to think.
Yeah your gonna end up in a cardboard box.
@@leopardchicken and no wage increase.
If you want “Above and beyond”, then you must pay above the market rate and pay overtime for hours beyond the working hours.
Interesting "if you are a quiet quitter you are not working for me." You are most definitely right sir.100 Others employers for you sir.
He fails to realize these kids get it as a whole. He will be understaffed with that attitude, and his business will suffer.
@@joefly6483 He has an old school mindset. Stuck in the past
American become lazy
Good luck with the new generation😂
He wants to exploit employees.
It's just called work life balance. Don't let your job rule your life.
For jobs with no bonuses, incentives, or career growth, it makes sense to set boundaries and limitations to corporations or institutions who don’t value their workers. People are still doing their work and being productive, they just aren’t giving more to jobs that don’t give back.
Exactly that's why I left my job soon as they took bonuses out I was out.
I feel it. They need to fkin get it
A company that stop giving back ….then your talking about target corp.
Resigned 3 years ago, was a middle management, and I'd prefer my members to go home on time except at times when there's a major problem to tackle. They'll come back on the next day with a fresh mind, full of energy, and creativity.
And when we respect their daily boundaries, they'll gladly sacrifice their time when there's a huge problem.
We had a guy at my work that would always stay an hr or more after work without overtime. I would always tell him he's getting paid less hourly the longer he stays but he didn't care. He thought management would notice and he would get promoted early. Well no one noticed him until he had a heart attack and then he was laid off.
Geez. That is disheartening.
Wow that is tough.
The dude didn't get the memo.
That's sad
Damn
It’s crazy this is called “quitting” rather than “setting boundaries” 🙄
Setting boundaries? What boundaries? You signed and agreed to provide a certain service, at a certain price. Boundaries? What are you talking about?
Yeah you agree to provide service for 9-5 and not beyond that. Sometimes they don't pay for your overtime work. Time is an important resource, there should have a price for it if they want you to go and beyond.
@@Howardm-fy8ir explain the scenario your talking about you guys prob got dif scenarios
@@keuwlcat1319 I think most are struggling to understand or grasp the concept of 'job offer'...
You either accept or decline. Now, accepting comes with obligations which these people gladly accept...
I was nervous to read the comments but I was pleasantly surprised. We're not quitting. We're setting boundaries and acting our wage. Labor productivity and employee engagement will continue to drop. We know we're worth more. We're tired. We're not being paid to survive. We're no longer accepting crumbs. Things need to change and this is how it happens.
acting our wage. I love that ❤
I feel with rising wages ,everywhere will cost more . Just raised both bars on the graph ,the end result doesn’t change
Fax acting our wage
In 2018-2019, I was working enough overtime to double my paycheck. 7am to 9pm. It was awesome. I was on the quick lane to paying off my mortgage and buying myself a new car by the end of the year. The longer I worked in the same department, though, the more my teammates and leadership had something to say about how I did my work. Not that I was making a bunch of errors. I’d found a way to finish everything I started and not let any work (or very little) expire. They wanted me to let them cut in and finish up the work I’d started and for me to pick up theirs and finish it off. They also didn’t like how I noted my work despite all the information needed for records being there. It got old. When new leadership came in and the conditions of the work environment got worse - every few days - I decided it was time to get back in school and, consequently, had no time for overtime. My bosses decided to mandate it. One said she noticed I didn’t maintain production when I’m burnt out. She and another dropped that classic line “if you don’t like it here, you don’t have to be. You can leave whenever you like. There are several other people that would love to work here”. I don’t feel valued here and I might _not_ be valuable in their perspective. I’m not quiet quitting (I have nowhere else to go currently). I just …don’t want to sign up for extra hours of somebody treating me like the boy who lived under the stairs. I actually had one boss shouting at me in the kitchen loud enough for people across the floor to hear. She didn’t like how succinct my notes are. I promise you, my note structure is exactly the way my trainer told me to do it.
Power to the people. We need to stand up to corporate America
there needs to be a balance
The movement originated in China
Yes, everyone please continue to do this so that guys like me can stay working late and shine. Less competition for guys like me. 😊
You need to pay your bills .
yep last time i checked a trend on commie app never ends well
Massive employers hate it when you have peace of mind and dictate your own life.
😭
Employees hate it when copmpanies fire them and hire people from overseas that actually want the work.
@@hdaviator9181 Keep licking those boots. Workers all over the world are reevaluating wasting their lives making someone else rich.
@@hdaviator9181 lol its not about wanting to work. Its about giving 100 percent and not above 100 percent. Lets be honest, most companies will pay you the same whether you give 100 percent or 100 plus percent. Most promotions are based on politics and not solely on work ethic. The only people I see nowadays going above and beyond and getting consumed in work are people with no outside life. Which is fine. Just don't complain when you get burned out.
@@hdaviator9181 Cheap labor in, cheap product out. Pay people better wages if you want a better product.
Interesting how the failure is only seen on the employees side, there’s two sides to the story: employers have shown employees that they are replaceable, didn’t care for them during hard times and only expect them to deliver without ever stepping beyond their required delivery. Working people just give back to companies how they treated their employees. It’s just evening out the playing field. Treat your employees like sht and they won’t go the extra mile for you. As simple as that
Robots will replace lazy human
@@ПобедавРоссии - Try it.
@@ПобедавРоссии Robot's don't buy stuff, people do; robots also need energy
@@ПобедавРоссии as they should. Job like fast food and retail shouldn't have human workers. These jobs pay too little and are too demanding.
@@ПобедавРоссии not really. Skilled workers are just hard to replace.
As a millennial, I'm glad I was a part of the movement. I had to leave UPMC alone. And survived 4 months without them and doing temp agency work until my new job coming up. I thank God my city has alot of temporary contacts