Quiet Quitting

Do you not have any sort of flexi set up? Not that I expect my job to be typical, but doing what you just described would be exactly “doing my contracted hours” for my role

As long as I meet my hours per week and attend any relevant meetings, it doesn’t really matter when I work them

we have flexi at work so if I have to stay an extra hour I get the time back

but that doesn’t really feel like overworking to me. Science doesn’t rest / can’t leave certain things until tomorrow

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Flexi and this are very different aren’t they? Quiet Quitting seems to be “not working over your expected hours when you’re not getting anything in return”?

Then again I only heard this term for the first time via this thread so I might be very wrong.

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Nope! I am meant to work 9-5:30 but don’t think I’ve ever done that. I work with people in the US and APAC so if I quiet quit, I’ll probably rarely get anything done.

Also think if you wanna make more money or get promotions, you can’t just be doing job description. Find it a bit odd on here sometimes that it’s seemed a bit frowned upon to want that?? We have reviews at my place that doing the job spec is like rated at a 3 out of 5 stars or something like that. So they ain’t promoting 3 out of 5 stars.

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Quiet quitting is doing the job spec. So if your boss said hey we have this new project I want you to be involved with, you’d go “nah, not in my job spec to do that”

Different orgs affect that too. Literally no such thing as a promotion or pay rise here - want more money, cool, apply for a new role at a higher pay band. Obviously you have to have developed the skills for it based on your current role, but it’s not like doing your current role better = any chance of more money

Does mean that yeah some people get to X pay band which is comfortable for the life they want to lead, then either just stay in the role forever or dot about sideways into other roles at same pay that interest them more. Cultural thing innit

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that’s it I think. Those at my work who buzz about doing more than required are usually those who expect/aspire to get a promotion when there’s one available. Those who do what’s required and nothing more usually have no progression aspirations and are quite happy as is

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Never had a job where a promotion is performance or pay rise based (much like JP) so guess its somewhat an alien concept to me.

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Yeah exactly. I don’t see the point in working if I’m not going to be constantly trying to make more money?! And to do that, you have to go above your job spec.
I ain’t here for a laugh mate!! Gimme the money :moneybag:

I had a poor performance review this year, the results of which were … we need you to do better next year or else there may be consequences in 12 months time

So yeah trying to fit my head into corporate high powered mindsets just isn’t going to work

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Also might be worth noting that as women get paid less than men, men can usually get away with “quiet quitting” with little to no consequences. Women have to work harder to be seen at the same level as a bare minimum male worker.

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what if you’re not motivated by more money

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Then you won’t be fussed about a promotion? So quiet quit away!

I think i’m motivated by the promise of my own bed


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think if people are ‘quiet quitting’ (working to rule) individually as a recent development in how they work, they should talk to the people they work with about doing it collectively and in a targeted way. They could bargain for better things

Or just do the contracted work for the same money as when you were doing extra. That’s fine too

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Really hate appraisals where you’re expected to set yourself targets beyond “I will do what I am paid to do well”. I know I’m not gonna do the targets, my manager knows it, we both know I work hard and generally to a good standard in my bread and butter so no one is going to care about unmet appraisal targets, why must we bother with the charade?

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Maybe. Maybe not. None of my pay rises have come from going above and beyond my job role, they’ve been from i) professional qualifications, ii) someone else quitting and the bosses shitting themselves about other people quitting, iii) sideways moves in the organisation, and iv) work politics.

Hard work = more money isn’t a given

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literally the oldest carrot in the book
no you’re mixing metaphors

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