Psh, that's some weak-ass quiet quitting. I perform below standard and just barely comply with whatever instructions they give to "correct" me.
The point is to put them between tolerating you and dealing with the hassle of hiring someone new
Fluctuate between high quality and substandard to keep them on their toes
jokes on them my executive dysfunction and volatile Bad Brain makes this my default!! fuck u management!
- Show"I would love to beat them but they are rowing just as ordered, and now i must invent an excuse"
Does middle management just have untreated anxiety and are now projecting that onto everyone around them? Literally what are they complaining about here.
I think they've always been like this. Thet have nothing to occupy the work day than being paranoid and making everyones life worse
"ooooohhh nooooooo my wage slaves aren't performing emotional labor to cater to my delicate ego constructed on false bourgeoisie class identity. I want these trained monkeys to SMILE when they dance, not just do exactly as I've asked based on contractual obligation."
yes, because they know they are doing a bullshit job
subordinates knowing the value of their labour is the trigger-point of the middle manager's exstential crisis
an uneasy feeling but nothing specific to complain about
vibes-based performance evaluation
"i know my enterprise critical, high functioning employees are unhappy with their present conditions and my anxiety grows as i realize the increasing likelihood they will leave because the conditions i impose on them are even worse than they might find elsewhere in the community. however, i am unwilling to do anything productive about this except blame them as personally responsible for my unease." - confessions of the average typically self-deluded middle manager / small business tyrant
anyway, my work involves doing critical analysis of systems. i was specifically sought out and hired by the organization for having "strong critical analysis skills". let me tell you how much management hates when i apply those skills to the organization.
like how several middle managers' jobs, despite their JUMBO 4x-6x salaries, consist of sitting through meetings all day, saying the budgets are all in the red/there is no meat on the bone for anything, and additionally they have taken on so many commitments they cannot follow through on any one of them so they have delegated all of their responsibilities to their subordinates and cannot provide any updates on anything.
as though that doesn't suggest an immediate solution.
Isn’t quiet quitting completing work to the minimum you can get away with?
How is this quiet quitting, and if it is, what isn’t?
It's not quiet quitting. This is a perfect example of words being so overused and applied so broadly that the meaning is lost.
The only usage that would make any sense, and what I have always thought must have been the original meaning, is people who literally sit on their phone and send in job applications and do little to no work until the boss notices.
This got turned into "doing only exactly what was asked" and now we're finally at "Really great work but could do more!!!!"
It continues to irk me because doing what you’re paid to do is called a job.
Quiet quitting never had a worthwhile meaning to begin with. The way they defined that was literally just what having a job is
All these words were invented by managers anyway so it doesn’t matter
I think what they mean here is that the person does their assigned work and then goes home early instead of sitting around pretending to be busy.
I think it's not asking for extra work, but the thing is if they did that their performance would likely drop. I genuinely don't get how managers seem incapable of understanding that the quality of the work turned in is directly related to timelines and workload.
“Getting away with it” implies something devious. These people are just complaining about you doing your job and going home lol
Isn’t quiet quitting completing work to the minimum you can get away with?
And isn't that just Work To Rule? These people need to justify their fancy journalism degrees so they make up new terms
The whole thing has always been some attempt to shame labor for doing their jobs. Does that make any sense? Idk, i'm not an mba.
That's not quiet quitting... What the fuck are they smoking?
Its not quiting!!! Its literally just having a job!!!! Now they're even defining "quiet quiting" as being good at your job! Total clown shit
is there anything i can do to retain my employees?
no! the zoomers don't want to work anymore!if your employees dont whistle while they work and say "aw shucks i wish i could stay at work all day!" after every shift they're actually saboteurs
You keep saying I need goals you docked me pretty significantly on my review saying I am "my device too much". Do i do my job? "Yes you do but...." but what? Leave me alone. Stick me on nights and afternoons only if you don't want to see me doing nothing after my tasks are completed. Otherwise assign me tasks and I will do them. Goals? You mean pointless extra work that turns into yet another organization wide box for everyone to check? Please.
Goals
What three things are you going to do to improve this year
Uh I figured I could get better at this core metric that I'm already adequate at
NO. Doing that is your normal job duties that you should be doing anyways, it can't be one of your goals.
Three of these every year, I dread it every time. I actually need figure some out ASAP.
Just pick something that's too abstract to measure, like mentorship or community building or safety awareness
A specific physical activity outside of work is a good one I relied on a lot. Blah blah, Harvard Business studied it, and found that exercise improved focus and productivity. I don't know if that's true, but Harvard has like a trillion campuses worldwide that put out all kinds of bullshit, so it probably is.
I synergized mindfulness solutions by 30% last year but maybe I'm built different
My goals are to kidnap everyone who's a boss, fire the board of directors, turn the whole company into a workers' co-op, and institute a Communist revolution.
"But you can't do that! That's illegal!"
Don't ask questions you don't want to hear the answers to, buckaroo.
Pure liberal vibes-based idealism in action. They reflexively oppose workers, so any time a worker doesn't want to die it's suspicious.
It's amazing how the slimyness moving just behind the text seems confusing and hard to grasp until you've read Marx, then you just see the nature of the exploitation everyfuckingwhere
Reading theory is like seeing the yellow sign and slowly going insane as it inserts itself into the rest of your life
It's from The King In Yellow, a sort of proto-lovecraftian horror story. The Yellow King and Yellow Sign are symbolic of forbidden knowledge that ruins your life and drives you insane.
Incidentally it's also where the name "Carcosa" is from.
You read a tome of eldritch lore and begin to recognize the shape of an invisible unholy abomination controlling people, seeing its omnipresent tentacles corrupting everything that is good in its endless pursuit of profit.
I see that fuckin Amygdala squatting next to the building, I see it looking thru the window, it's right there!
Journalists: the whipped monks of capitalism. Only fit to copy the manuscript they're given.
