can someone explain what "quiet quitting" is and why we're seeing a lot of people mention it suddenly?
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@xenon that isn't really quitting though? that's.... performing to expectations? by definition?
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re: politics
@Felthry @xenon That's why it blew up, that term was invented maybe a week or two ago in an article and it all but states outright that employers expect more than you've agreed to do.
(The same concept is more or less already known as working to rule, but that can also include strictly observing safety regulations in an effort to slow the work process down)
@Felthry Essentially, it is a form of self-actualization/protest of only doing the exact letter-of-the-law of your job duties, and refusing to do a single extra thing not in your job description... no overtime, no extra duties, no assisting... absolutely nothing but your exact job reqvirements.
Done to protest all the free labor and work that corporate culture demands of folks, both unpaid overtime, and the idea that your job should supercede your personal time and life.
@JulieSqveakaroo@dragon.style @Felthry@awoo.space is say that's not Quiet Quitting but Work To Rule. Quiet Quitting is a term invented to try and make people feel guilty/denigrate people for not cheerfully volunteering to work weekends/do extra work off the clock/do duties not even vaguely related to your contract without additional pay or other benefits. Basically QQ is declining to be a cheerful serf serving your neofeudal lord's every whim.
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@Felthry "quiet quitting" is what the media suddenly started calling "doing the job someone is paid for and not doing unpaid labor beyond that"
it's meant to make workers feel bad for not doing additional unpaid labor, and to give an excuse to bosses to fire employees who aren't doing that additional unpaid labor
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