When "line go up" mentality gets applied to your workforce. God forbid they keep working to the same standard they always have, must be moar! Always moar!
this post was submitted on 29 Apr 2024
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Translation: "Workers aren't happy with their pay and we keep refusing to give them a raise despite noticing a ceiling in their productivity."
PAY. THEM. MORE.
Labor isn't free, you cheapskate bastards.
This has gotta be bait. There's no fuckin way.
So they just work?
Oh yes. The company where I work at does these performance reviews: doing 100% gives you a 'C' (as a grade). I do everything that is expected from me without anything to complain about? Yeah, that's not good enough.
Fuck that.
There is the silent complaint that you could do more... Give up your spare time for your work. Work yourself tired and burn out for your company! That's what they want to see.
I'm looking for a new job while I still work there.
Oh man I would just make it a point to celebrate getting a C with my colleagues. "Champion Rank" or something lol.
Funny and strange that the article came from The Irish Times. I live in Ireland, and foreign nationals love to work here because of more laidback working culture. This is not "quiet quitting" in the Irish context, it's "as long as all your work is done, you can do whatever the fuck you want."
I have culture shock hearing from others who worked abroad and say how toxic the work environments are in some places. I had co-workers from Spain and Portugal say you can get pressured to work on weekends, or do tasks outside of working hours. Verbal abuse and shouting also happens more frequently.
I worked on one of the largest Portuguese tech companies, it was kinda dependent on the business area. In the telcos department I barely had to do any overtime, it was only for emergencies. My colleagues in the banking department, however, wouldn't ever see the light of day. They arrived before sunrise and left long after sunfall. Projects were submitted at a loss to in the hope of netting future projects. Developers were supposed to work overtime to compensate this... If you refused to work overtime your carreer would have end at that company.
Oh shit, uneasy feelings for managers... :)
Clearly a national emergency.
"we have nothing to complain about, but we'll still complain because fuck the poor, am I right?"
Gaslighting isn't real. You sound crazy.
Electrical lighting is more economical, anyways.
If your business model depends on me doing extra work for free, then you aren't a great business person
That's the whole deal of maximizing profit. If you can get your employees to work extra for free, you have a very successful business model.
If you think this is sad then maybe you'd agree that we need a change.
Yes, but you need to throw in some consideration for your employees, either material or symbolic.
That would be the nice and fair thing to do... However people are often happy with just a pat in the back so that's what they get.
Thanks for explaining it! That's it, right? I was wondering what tf it was trying to allude to as "quiet quitting". This isn't satire, then?
There's always been a push towards seeing working as a value in itself, but it was easier to trick people into working around the clock when wages allowed to reach one's goals (a house, financial stability, sending your kids to college). It's more difficult when workers live paycheck to paycheck and know that they won't be economically able to retire.
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