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[-] SCmSTR 20 points 2 days ago
[-] BussyCat@lemmy.world 41 points 2 days ago

It’s doing the bare minimum, sometimes below the minimum so that they have to fire you. Like how you would act if your boss yelled at you for no reason and you no longer care about your job.

[-] SCmSTR 8 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

So is the goal to actually get fired? Or to just not go for a promotion? I'm a little confused.

Or is it the guy from office space? "[make a guy]...work just hard enough to not get fired."

Edit: Oh.. I've got a good way to help clarify this...

Another office space reference, but I think this quantifies it well:

So if they ask you to wear 37 pieces of flair, is quiet quitting wearing 35, 36, 37, or 38 pieces of flair?

  1. and that's a write up for explicit underperformance and en route to being let go.

  2. is basically the same thing but could be taken as a technicality or mistake.

  3. is technically right, but a lot of shitty bosses will have a fit with their own standards and be all passive aggressive about it, and may even rock the boat until they have to fire you.

  4. is juuust above the bare minimum, so they can't say shit, but you won't be getting a promotion anytime soon.

And anything above that, I'm just going to categorize as not quiet quitting for sake of simplicity. Don't worry about performance percentages, that's not the point here.

[-] EldritchFeminity 7 points 1 day ago

"Quiet quitting" would be 37 or even 38 in your example. Basically doing what's in your job description, but nothing more. Setting clear work/life boundaries where you aren't accessible to do work for your boss/manager outside of working hours (even if they just want you to answer some emails while you're on vacation or whatever), and not doing stuff that you aren't qualified for/isn't in your job description and that you aren't getting paid extra to do.

People have started refusing to let companies expect more than they're paying for, and it's pissed them off, so they're calling it "quiet quitting."

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