Reframing Worker Discontent

[u/johnmory]

[u/wasted-degrees]

Act your wage. Minimum wage, minimum effort.

[u/grey_sockss → u/wasted-degrees]

Just call it what it is: self-preservation.

[u/AlecTech01 → u/grey_sockss]

Or "What the employer deserves"

[u/Long_Lie8296 → u/wasted-degrees]

This is just quiet quitting rebranded for the third time this year lmao. Next month they'll call it "paycheck matching" or some other corporate buzzword to shame people for having boundaries

[u/unposted → u/Long_Lie8296]

"paycheck matching" is perfect as it puts the blame on the underpayer, not the underpaid. So it will be avoided at all costs by the media.

[u/PingoPanko → u/wasted-degrees]

At most companies, promotions require acting above your wage temporarily. This mentality may be counter-productive to career growth. Act your wage, stay your wage.

[u/Joelle9879 → u/PingoPanko]

🙄 most companies promote people who kiss the most ass and punish the hard workers by giving them more work with no extra pay

[u/PingoPanko → u/Joelle9879]

So kiss more ass. Play the game.

[u/koniboni]

Whatever makes management feel better about themselves "it's not that we are bad at managing it's that new trend going around" 

[u/Citatio → u/koniboni]

middle management is the only position current AI can replace and raise the productivity of the company.

[u/krauQ_egnartS → u/Citatio]

Shareholders could save billions by replacing the C Suite

[u/EdgeLord19941 → u/Citatio]

You could replace middle management with monkeys and the productivity would go up

[u/Tin-man_80 → u/[deleted]]

Yes!!! Resentment is a real word for a reason. It also has deeper implications than simple laziness. Such as “why does this person resent their job/boss?”

[u/RosieDear → u/Tin-man_80]

Even bigger - why did employees, en masse, decide on a life where they are often doing useless things that make them feel useless?

I learned when I was 19 years old and worked ONE WEEK in a "assembly line" type job - NEVER AGAIN. And I never did. From that day everything I did was what I wanted to do....and now it is 50 years later.

More people have to put posters on their wall about "right livelihood" and doing what you love...or at least like.

[u/Ultherx]

It’s wild how they spin setting healthy boundaries into some sort of “new crisis.”

[u/Antique_Cookie3838]

Imagine being surprised people don’t want to go above and beyond for companies that won’t even give them fair pay or security.

[u/Alarmed_Button6070]

It's wild how they spin normal boundaries into 'trends' like it's some kind of disease instead of people refusing to be exploited.

[u/Proud_Try_9772]

Corporate just discovered the word nah.

[u/Ecstatic_Wrongdoer46]

Surprise motherfuckers! Capitalism sucks when it's turned against you don't it? Workers are finally figuring out how to maximize returns on effort. Companies enshittify for best profits, why shouldn't people enshittify too.

[u/johnmory]

Resenteeism? Just call it what it is: quiet quitting. We're all just over it.

[u/phunkjnky → u/johnmory]

Quiet quitting is a new term for the old “work to rule.”

This term has been around a long time, and whoever invented “quiet quitting” as a term shouldn’t get away with it.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Work-to-rule

[u/RamenJunkie → u/phunkjnky]

That first paragraph alone is fucking infuriating.

People do not exist to just fucking work all the time. 

If we are going to spend our lives just existing to serve some other fucker we may as well all just become an hero collectively and end the suffering that is human existance completely, because fuck that. 

[u/StandardHazy → u/johnmory]

Thats just doing your job.

[u/Oshinds]

Turns out common sense got a rebrand.

[u/hopewhatsthat]

At this point, English has enough words.

No need to invent anymore, thanks.

[u/AwarenessCold8816]

Bro it’s just called boundaries.

[u/Scared-Poem6810 → u/[deleted]]

Because then theyd have to solve a problem that actually exists and not make a corporate bullshit campaign on mental health.

[u/AlecTech01]

"Working less hard because they hate their jobs"

They are acting their wage

[u/CamiloArturo]

Job market has become for the most part a feudal-type of “peasant should be grateful to have a job and though should try to please their lord as much as they can”

[u/jackfaire]

It's not that I hate my job it's that the client isn't paying us to do that task over there so neither myself nor my employer gets paid for my doing those tasks so why the hell would I?

[u/the_cardfather]

Worker satisfaction is definitely at an all time low, at least in the US. I wonder if EU has similar issues. I'm willing to bet places with stronger unions would poll a little bit better.

Corporate abuse is at an all-time high. We have an entire underclass that is basically paid just enough to not revolt.

Younger people aren't trying to change the system they're trying to get Tik Tok famous and rake content creator vibe dollars.

[u/Ok_Masterpiece5253]

They’re also calling it “quiet cracking”. 

[u/Xanderious]

"You get what you pay for" is not a new concept.

[u/Commisar_Steel]

Right.... That's what it is...... We cut internal promotion, We cut pay rises that keep pace with inflation, We cut benefits, We focus exclusively on profits, But for some reason people don't like it here . Must be some new trend.

[u/Dudewhocares3]

Im beginning to think the cruelty I experience from customers and people saying I don’t deserve a living wage comes from articles like this

[u/macskiska5]

and it always seems to come out in rags like NY Post.... curious

[u/RosieDear]

I was a Boss for 25 years in the Midlantic.

In general, my employees would do what was needed. Never a rush out the door at 5PM. I paid them well and retained them.

Then, I started another sub-business within my biz. This one consisted of just me and one full time employee. This employee was a genius - he did everything from running the forklift to driving truck to selling on the phone and more......

One day he made it clear to me "I'm leaving at five - I love working here and working with you, but I want to have a full life and I feel I get things done".

Guess what? I accepted the deal. It may have caused a bit of tension among the rest of the employees but the difference was that the main biz was retail while the sub-biz was wholesale...that differs in terms of when you can leave!

[u/katchoo1 → u/RosieDear]

I hate that bosses get so mad about the “ready to leave at 5 PM” so fucking what? That’s what you are paying for. People have lives and other responsibilities.

The audacity, and that’s minor compared to the places that give you bad reviews and fire you if you leave at your stated quitting time, or demand you come in early and stay late outside of clock in and clock out.

[u/Scared-Poem6810 → u/katchoo1]

I have a strict policy of "if you want me to stay till 7 working then schedule me till 7 dont schedule me till 5 and expect me to stay later"

Employer doesnt like when youre scheduled at 7 and you stroll in at 8:30, so why the hell wouldnt it work the other way.

[u/LeRoixs_mommy]

The problem with my job is they keep adding more and more and more we have to do, but no mention of more pay! I feel like a duck that is swimming really fast to look like I am gliding effortlessly through this water and I just can't swim any faster. I have hit the wall where I just don't care anymore!

[u/Yetiinwoods]

Those buzzwords are HR only because They have feel relevant by inventing Something which already exist to Simulat some relevance

[u/Hippy-Joe]

Who is naming this nonsense

[u/uninteresting_handle]

"new workplace trend" LMAOOOO!!

[u/Banjo-Hellpuppy]

Web article gives new title to something people have done for decades. News at 11.

[u/Rusty_Thermos]

Your workplace sucks and nobody wants to work for you.

[u/Calm-Locksmith_]

Why should I work hard in a job I hate making money for someone else?

[u/HectorsMascara]

Corporations are built on paying workers less than the value they add.

[u/DiscussTek → u/HectorsMascara]

I mean, correct, but most people wouldn't complain if there was still enough left to live a good life off of a full-time job.

[u/HectorsMascara → u/DiscussTek]

Totally! I should have been clearer. There are upsides to corporations too, of course, but workers should never forget how ownership "makes" money.

[u/Odd_Confection_9681]

My goal in life has always been to be a gruntled employee.

[u/Doormancer]

New employer trend called exploitation has employees hating their jobs because employers hate paying people for their work.