Don’t embrace and repeat the business media buzzwords built to give the CNBC ticker fill text. These terms are created to forgive executives and BODs of the guilt they feel - “It isn’t that we are treating people like shit, it’s that they are ungrateful little piggies and there’s just no winning so why not double down on our cruelty?”
I know it’s an easy draw, but don’t reinforces their lazy bullshit, redefine it. When they say quiet quitting, you say no, you’re getting what you fucking deserve. Act better, and we will consider doing the same. For now, feel empowered to work in active defiance of your shitty job. Stop complying. Show up, do the minimum. Give them the quality and frequency of labor that they deserve. Give them that without apology, excuse or buzzword. They are terrified that you are done adhering to the social contract that they have openly broken while giving you the finger, so be done.
Now if you’ll excuse me, I have to go shake my mouse and type and delete a few characters in a slack message to demonstrate a minimum level of engagement for the algorithm tracking my productivity to determine if my employee number is included in the next batch of names recommended for mass layoffs to juice the stock price.
Wage based productivity adjustment
“Acting my wage”.
It would be cool to add that to an email signature along with a colored trend arrow. Red and down for “wage subceeds motivation,” yellow and side to side for “meh,” and green and up for “sufficiently compensated in accordance with your labor requirements and expectations ”
Work to rule. No overtime, no extra duties. Exactly per position description.
I know most position descriptions have the clause “and any other duties assigned by the company from time to time. “ Comply with this, but do it poorly. Ask for clarification, training, written instructions, and still half ass it. Miss deadlines, miss data, draw erroneous conclusions.
Then get upset if called out, not angry upset, tearful upset.
Not sure what the contracts are like where you are but here in my country that clause about extra duties and overtime when necessary can be defeated by doing a little of what they ask. 30 minutes of overtimes satisfies that contractual obligation as they never state X amount needs to be done. Same for extra duties. Do it once and at the min and thats your obligations fulfilled.
You get what you pay for.
And for every year without the inflation adjustment my performance goes down accordingly.
Jesus and Buddha taught people to live in the world, but not be of the world. Do a job without compromising your morals, but don’t buy into the system and be one of those that sell out your fellow humans by becoming the next corporate drone boss. Give your employer as much, or as little, as you’re willing to give labor-wise for the paycheck. But, make sure your fellow humans, the planet, and your self come first, employer last.
