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I hate when my employees complete all their work to a high standard!! (hexbear.net)

submitted 6 months ago by hexaflexagonbear@hexbear.net to c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net

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[-] edge@hexbear.net 70 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

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?

[-] henfredemars@infosec.pub 58 points 6 months ago

It's not quiet quitting. This is a perfect example of words being so overused and applied so broadly that the meaning is lost.

[-] SerLava@hexbear.net 27 points 6 months ago

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!!!!"

[-] henfredemars@infosec.pub 17 points 6 months ago

It continues to irk me because doing what you’re paid to do is called a job.

[-] BurgerPunk@hexbear.net 19 points 6 months ago

Quiet quitting never had a worthwhile meaning to begin with. The way they defined that was literally just what having a job is

[-] RyanGosling@hexbear.net 13 points 6 months ago

All these words were invented by managers anyway so it doesn’t matter

[-] SSJ2Marx@hexbear.net 40 points 6 months ago

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.

[-] hexaflexagonbear@hexbear.net 34 points 6 months ago

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.