I work in training and development and almost had a stroke today when someone showed me some new material for new hires that essentially said, ‘to get promoted you should volunteer to do more work’. Uh, no. We’re not asking people to work for free, take that out. Forget it ever existed. Fucks sake.

I worked at Lowe’s for a little over a year. They constantly assigned me about 3-4 times the amount of work a human can do. They absolutely would not listen to me when I told them it was too much. They kept saying to do these tasks “in my downtime”.

I never had a minute of downtime. Every shift I was scrambling at 100 mph to get things done, and it never let up.

They just kept calling me in to talk about my performance, and when I’d say it was impossible they’d just say “it’s up to you to find the time”.

I eventually got fired, and thank god. My own self respect was dwindling the longer I put up with it. I should have quit, but didn’t have the courage to.

They made up a new word for hating your job and then put in three pictures of people on the edge of a breakdown. That's not hating your job, that's being crushed by your job. It's right there in the photo. You can see it in their eyes.

I've never worked more than what my job description said. Want me to do more? Pay me for it.

We are the majority. The vast majority. It seems like we should be able to combat this.

I know, I know. All the systems are rigged against us all the world over. But it still baffles the mind that a relative handful of people can abuse all of us.

I’ve also heard it referred to in some circles as Ligma

They are trying to get to something that sticks lol.

"Quiet quitting" didn't really have that zing to it, eh?

Big Business: We're gonna stop rewarding hard work and loyalty cause employees are nothing but replaceable chattel that don't deserve respect, much less a decent living wage

Employees: Works only to the limit defined in their contract and not one inch more because they are horrifically underpaid, disrespected and treated like replaceable chattel

Big Business: God damn lazy workers just dont want to work anymore! What happened to this country?

Everyone with two functioning neurons of common sense: You. You happened to this country. Stop treating your employees like shit, Cause its not a worker problem, its a Boss/Executive problem

Simpsons called it in 1995.

I remember quite quitting. Anyone else have one?

I remember getting the email letting us know we should arrive early and be ready. I just keep walking in at my exact scheduled time because that’s when I start getting paid. I will bill a single minute of drive time. This is what you get for a .75 annual raise.

Hasn't this always been around? I think I even occasionally had related conditions but for chores, school work, .. growing up until I found my interests in school and professionally

I thought we had agreed to call this quiet quitting

In Germany we call it "Dienst nach Vorschrift"

Is the solution to revise the job so it isn't toxic and terrible?

Maybe, remember your workers are in fact human beings?

Yo so I was on this job in 2011 where the home owner was the contractor and had volunteers build her single family residence and retreat, I was on the paid crew.

The building department called it a mistake and wanted to tear it down. She sold it to an unsuspecting moron and he is now holding the bag. She was all about “community” and work/trade.

That house leaks like a sieve, and isn’t well temp controlled.

Top tier douche baggery right there. I got so many stories from that job 😂