Current Events > Quiet Quitters Make Up Half the U.S. Workforce, Gallup Says

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Quiet quitters you mean people doing their jobs?

The concept of go above and beyond is starting to become outdated. People are seeing that the game is rigged.

remember when it was called "work to rule" before the media needed to give it a trendy new tiktokian catchphrase?

The tone of that article seemed to take an abrupt change like halfway through, wtf

That moronic phrase needs to go back to wherever it came from.

The original writer probably got canned and replaced with a harder working writer who was willing to go above and beyond.

I knew a guy that went all out one year. Blew past his yearly billing goal by hundreds of hours. Smashed every project he worked on out of the park, made the company more money than anyone else.

The company shrugged their shoulders and gave him the same shitty raise and bonus as everyone else at review time. He was gone within a year.

*Acting their wage.

Quiet quitting really sounds like someone wants to put a negative spin on actually having work/life balance.

The reward for working hard is more work and nothing else

MY screen began flashing. I had the console rigged to measure quitting time to the nanosecond. Softech had a flexitime system, which meant that you could quit for the week after putting in forty hours. A few quick keypunches and Id logged off for the weekend. I yawned and looked around the too-familiar room. I was pretty old to be working this hard. A couple of years ago Id had it mademy own company and my own signature on the paychecks. But now . . .

Finished so soon, Dr. Fletcher?

It was my supervisor, an angular young blond woman named Susan Lacey. Dr. Lacey. No one used first names at Softech. Company policy.

No, Im not finished. But Ive clocked in my forty hours. Its Friday afternoon.

She flashed her human-relations smile. Its two forty-seven, Dr. Fletcher. I dont have to tell you that theyre in an awful rush for your program. You know how anxious they do get.

They. Lacey was always talking about her higher-ups as if it were her and me against some abstract impersonal them. It was her way of trying to win my sympathy, even though she was a slave driver. A pathetically transparent con job. I wished I could be my own boss again; I was too good for this noise.

Dont worry. I snapped shut my briefcase. The deadlines only Wednesday, you know. Ill bring the thing in under the wire. I always do.

All around me, my coworkers were still tapping away at their terminals. I was the only one with the nerve to take flexitime seriously. Id never move up the Softech corporate ladder this way, but so what? All I needed from them was a steady paycheck. Soon Id find a way to get my engineering firm back on its feet. I gave Lacey a curt nod and headed for the parking lot.

Alternate title: Half the U.S. Workforce is a victim of wage theft

I thought Quiet Quitters we're people who quit the job without telling anyone