"RESENTEEISM" - THE NEXT DUMB CORPORATE BUZZWORD TO REPLACE QUIET QUITTING?! 

Good employers will be like: Ah you aren't happy? No worries. If you need help with your CV, let us know. Otherwise, good luck! They're rare, but never burn those bridges. Definitely unicorns in today's world.

It has never hurt me. I got no issues packing up my tools and heading down the road.

Employers: whine to mainstream media to make themselves feel better about doing shitty things

It's all bout de money for me. That's why college.

I heard a maintenance guy say once, I was looking for a job when I found this one.

You could if you just… MAN UP! Lol

Quiet quit isn't a real thing, that's just called "doing your job".

@@okjosh ikr. guess you're not a "Man" if you don't. 🤦‍♂ what a crock lol.

I understand what your saying, but everyone can move jobs. What would you do if you were fired, laid off, or the company goes belly up? Or! If the price of expenses rises above your income? As an employee, we will always be slaves to the business. On top of keeping your finances in order, its important you are always ready or getting ready for that safety of your paycheck to go away. I have moved across the country 4 times as for better opportunities and savings. I just moved from California to Texas. I have a great job that is remote and I saw the writing on the wall for price hikes in California not only with the $7 gas at the time but the run away home and rent prices. I took my high paying job, my wife, and packed up the car shipped my items and drove down to Texas. It cost over $10K but the savings are unreal. Even with a high salary I prefer to live like i make $50K. It takes the fear of job loss or hating my Job out of the equation. You may not have liked the way he said it, but he is right. You have 100% control over what you do, where you work, and how long you want to stay in unpleasant circumstances. These employers have already said they dont care. So in return we have to set ourself up for success by not being slave to everything they want from us. That includes getting comfortable with being uncomfortable. Maybe its not as extreme as moving across country, but it could involve: tightening the budget, getting an extra job to pay debt so you can go somewhere else, it might mean moving away from family or friends, etc. But most Americans aren’t ready to take a hard look in the mirror for their own contributions to their own mess. The slave master will continue to offer you pennies and tell you how secure you are and how hard it is to do anything else. Just food for thought.

I quiet quit daily... In my mind.... I quit. But my pocketbook is screaming btch get to work.... And I'm stuck because of shut downs and I refuse to jab for a job. So, what I actually did for years is out because I won't get it. So, I'm forced to do something that is literally just a job to pay the bills and the sad thing is, I actually make more now than I did taking care of the elderly or addicted at health care or state run facilities. Where do I work? Walmart.... I sht you not. I get better benefits and pay filling the online orders for people than I did working at a state run locked facility detox or doing homecare for elderly. It's kind of sad, to be honest.

Yep. No amount of effort and results is ever enough.

We are Borg resistance is futile.

@@mathgasm8484 😂😂

@@Em22-wtf prepare to be assimilated.

No no, they are treating us like humans.. Think of all the horrible things humans have done to each other over history. These people are just propagating the human plague. That and capitalism.

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see: Dilbert

Nailed it

Yeah but it's probably caused by poor employee morale. Man up.

​@@OurNewestMemberAnd why is morale terrible? That's right, the terrible decisions of management. If morale is bad, it's the people in charge's fault. Part of their job is keeping morale up

$2500 a month for a $10,000 deductible ain't health insurance though.

@@jeffweingrad4658 that's called a scam

That's exactly what it is my friend. It is no coincidence. Employees are a company's greatest asset, they'll never admit it to you, but they will lobby lawmakers for policies that make them the only place to afford insurance. It's bait my friend.

@@full_hustle check the exchanges. I live in a state with no options and monopoly, yet it was 75% cheaper than what employers charge. And you don't even see what the employers burden is. No one actually wants that, not worth it for either party.

@@jeffweingrad4658 disagree on the not worth it part, all chamber of commerce driven. Glad to hear about the exchange being a better option for you. Wish that was the case for more people. And you're right, even employer subsidized plans have gone out of control, just an unfortunate situation all around. Cheers!

Yes, private security firms are often like that. I lost a crap job at a armed patrol 🚓 position. My supervisor was demoted back to patrol about 4wk after I left. 🤔 I had another armed post, mobile patrol 🚓 which had the guard who replaced me(I was cut in a corp down size move) wrecked the 1994 Nissan Stanza 🚗, total the car I drove 40hr + a week for 3.5mo. Ohhhh I drove with bad brakes & worn out, old tires too.

From personal experience, yes... yes it is!

In some cases it's sad. The people I left behind who could not quit continue to be on my mind. I couldn't really do anything for them once I was gone except say that I didn't mean to make things worse for them. That said, I am pretty sure we're all in a better place in life now, so things worked out for the better eventually.

@@keithwinget3450 With a lot of the ones I cared about, I'll usually extend an offer. Keep in touch with me, if things to go hell, I'll be one of their recommendations or even try to fight to get them a job at the place I begin working. And it usually works extremely well, a supervisor hearing one of their direct employees vouch for a potential new hire is some pretty strong praise. Just don't burn us if we do that for you. Please.

It warmed my hard, dark, sharp little obsidian heart.

The basic relationship at a job is employers hate their workers.

@@J3unG Start to look like italian tax system, with mutual total distrust

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The number of times corporate behavior meets the toxic behavior description is disturbing.

my tinfoil hat theory is that companies are pumping out new bs buzzwords so terms like quiet quitting are collectively passed off and in turn won't gain traction among workers

Particularly labor lawyers. So many HR departments blatantly break the laws and get the company into deeper trouble than if they didn't exist in the first place.

That and CEOs need to shift the blame from their terrible leadership to the person taking the orders.

Not just HR, bro. The fucking owners hire HR just for this reason.

@@Jebbis Yeah, but then that would mean the CEO would have to do something about it.

100%. I love my current job (the work itself) but despise most of my coworkers, the managers who overlook my hard work time and again, and the celebration of mediocrity in the place.

​@@user-zr6pl6nb6z sounds like Starbucks

@@cpK054L how did you make that quantum leap?

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Louder so the floor above can hear

Crafting dumb buzzwords allows them to control the narrative and make it sound like the problem is with the workers rather than the corporation. Shifting blame that way makes them look like the good guys, burdened with having to deal with a bunch lazy and resentful deadbeats when in reality, its just people burning out because of abusive employers who keep piling more and more work on people without upping compensation in any meaningful way. Sorry, but "opportunity" doesn't pay the bills.

I got tired of meeting the new manager who had an MBA, so I went and got one. It wasn't as hard as the technical schools I'd already been to. Oddly, I can't get arrested when management openings come up. They want white collar rich kids who did internships instead of people with varied real-world experience. Above a certain level it's a rich kids' club, and making up buzzwords helps them feel like they're contributing something meaningful.

“Nobody wants to work anymore!”

@@corvus8638 Not for that guy. Must be Dave Ramsay’s bother.

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Yeah if you're happy with your job you can stay at work there anymore. You should look for another job. Don't quit that job until you have another one.

It's bad that workers were treated better in the figurative dark ages.

Underrated comment. Spot on!

In my industry good experienced Engineers were getting about £40k when I started back in 2003. Adjusted for inflation that should be around £70k now. But companies are still trying to employ people on around £40k 😭

This is what happens when the goblins take over your monetary system. strip it of its value tack on this "national debt" not realizing that it's a banking scheme then put everyone in possible to government welfare demoralize the shit out of the working class destroy nuclear families destroy sound economic policies destroy ambitions. and everyone is too dumb to realize who is responsible.

@@dan44zzt231 That's because "inflation" is a bullshit term to demoralize everyone. "adjusted for inflation" doesn't mean jackshit in the context that people think it means. It's just an elitist term to devalue everyone's labor.

thank you chat gpt

Amazing, openAI

@@JoshuaFluke1 I just realized that at some point the decision to fire someone and the very act of firing someone is going to be done by an AI.

@@MarktheRude Amazon is already doing it with an algorithm.

@@MarktheRude They're likely always going to have some HR person read it, to give the vague appearance that they didn't use an AI to min-max employee cost.

That's what people fail to realize. People don't quit their jobs. They quit their bosses.

Which religion do you use?

^^ waiting to see what religon you use

@@casualleviathan5926 jehova's operative

@@casualleviathan5926 The sacred church of "No F*cks given", of course. You see, HR is not allowed to ask you any questions about your religion, so if they DARE ask, you tell them to ask again in written form.

@@pokeninja97 The sacred church of "No F*cks given", of course. You see, HR is not allowed to ask you any questions about your religion, so if they DARE ask, you tell them to ask again in written form.

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Can they get more desperate and pay us appropriately?

@@janehoe. No. If they pay you appropriately, you can accumulate "FU" money. Low pay is a method of controlling workers. You want good pay? Consider unionizing.

@@jamesphillips2285 I was part of a union at one of my past jobs and ended up making LESS money because all the union did was charges us union dues on every paycheck. Never again.

@@OriginalContent89 A useless union can be replaced.

What's FMLA?

@@jamn610 family medical leave act

@@jamn610 Family medical leave act. He had so much stress at work he had to go for treatment.

This how it works nowadays, they don't tell people what to do but they expect workers to jump at the "opportunity" and compete to get a new assignment.

@@monero_bully2412 Oh wow?! A new opportunity? More exposure? Build my skills? What's it pay!?

"We looked at ourselves and found ourselves to be fabulous and perfect in every way! Those ungrateful wretches are the problem!"

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Your response to that seems mild. I would have exploded.

@@user-zr6pl6nb6z He removed the background noise and cleaned the spilled guts stains before closing the door

Good luck my friend

@@user-zr6pl6nb6z energy can be converted. Control that explosion into what they termed "rage applying" and you will see a true COL increase. Time is our most valuable asset and wasting it on convincing corporate muggles to give even a satisfactory raise is a waste.

I am in that same situation. Until something comes I am out. Not doing no more than have to

Everybody does this to a point. I always feel like people who are actually passionate all consumed by their job have so little going on outside work that they use work to give there life some sort of meaning. I genuinely pity them.

@@dan44zzt231 exactly I have side business with my wife and debating just resign end month and just wait till another job offer comes. My company wants to draining the life out you

@@dan44zzt231 People like what you describe are those we refer to as "NPCs" nowadays. I genuinely pity them as well.

For me I'm pretty well maxed out on income in my field, and while I could do more demanding work, with the recent Big Tech layoffs I'm doubting I could get hired for something I'd rather do just given the current labor market, and frankly, I'm burnt out on working for corpos. Time to start my own business I think.

Where I am, the managers simply take my hard work for granted and never recognize me. Meanwhile, they do recognize the lazy ones. It makes no sense. Regardless, when I go back to work (currently on leave) it's going to be a different me. No more going the extra mile. I'll do exactly what the job calls for and NOT ONE BIT MORE.

Also learned the hard way. Establishing and enforcing boundaries after the fact is a sisyphean task.

The manager’s job isn’t to reward you for your self-conception. It is to get tasks done efficiently and effectively, however the means. How about asking some of your colleagues for some teamwork? Maybe, make a schedule to delegate responsibilities? Hell, just say, “No,”? Why do you have to twist everything your manager does into “hating you” or “screwing you over”? There is one way to set yourself apart.

@@miastrong151 lol you think we don't tell our managers we are overwhelmed? I did. However my manager could not get approval to hire more headcount. So everyone on my team was overworked and the extra projects went to us who were less likely to turn down a project because we were passionate. I never said my manager was bad, but when they were put in a tight spot, who are they gonna choose to take on extra work when everyone is overworked. My manager was great in a lot of ways but their leaders did not support them. It was really my VP who was very unsupportive.

@@miastrong151 When your manager is an immature fool, all reason goes out the window.

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In the words of an old usenet italian poster, DucaLaurenti74, turn the carrot in a cucumber and proceed with intensive prostate massage MIGHT help but not satisfy al requirements

Yea I've been caught out many times in the past with the potential for full time employment for the right candidates. Not much you can do but work at a place for 3-6 months scope it out and switch jobs when promises don't get delivered.

It's just the nature of work. You aren't supposed to like it. If people drank the corporate Koolaid and actually believed that your supposed to enjoy a job then no wonder they get disillusioned

Exactly right! Some managers where I work think I'm a jerk. I didn't come into the company that way. It's their actions that pushed me in the direction where I have to assert myself in such a way that they deem me a jerk.

No its not the nature of work. It's the nature of how shit companies are allowed to function despite being leaches on our civilized society. I don't mind work ~ I do it at home, school, & for people I love all the time FOR FREE. The only time people feel resentful is when (whether they are conscious of it or not) they are being taken advantage of. Same thing in relationships- the only time I have felt unmotivated to do chores or favors is when I know the other person is blatantly screwing me. People are being disillusioned because we're constantly lied to, manipulated, have our time wasted, etc all for a few parasites to prop up their own egos and wallets. It's just not the way humans are built to function in groups or at all.

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@@smania7575 I didn't ask for your life story like. But serious advice, if you base your contentment/mood on how things are going at work you'll never ever be happy. Work is work. Good or bad, doing what you want, doing what you don't want. Train yourself mentally to treat it as all the same.

Worried about what?

HR is the enforcers of any company. They are a gang and do the dirty work your boss needs done. They are assassins, make no mistake about it. They are NOT there for you.

@@full_hustle Ironically, the HR department where I work is the only place I get a decent hearing.

HR is a trap. You should be worried. Update you resume...

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I wonder...apply to that job, write a cover letter explaining why you left your last job, and why you're applying to this one. But the joke would fall upon deaf ears and be a waste of time.

@@jeffweingrad4658 They ended up not being able to find anyone to do my job. I developed the entire platform the company ran on and they thought it would work without me being there. Now they are using GoDaddy for hosting and the company is failing.

I'm furious for you

That's an outrage.

That really sucks. But I'm trying to decide if it's worse than this all-too-common scenario: they refuse to give you a raise, but they hire a kid who just graduated to help you out. This becomes an additional burden on you because you have to devote significant time to training him, but you do it because eventually it will mean you can split the work with him. Then you find out a couple months later that the new kid's salary is $20K higher than yours. This is a basically situation that has happened to me. The new kid wasn't making 20K more than me, but his salary was slightly higher than mine, and I'd been working there over 8 years. And I was expected to be his *manager* .

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I'm in a situation where I've been working my butt off and showing initiative, but the managers simply don't care. I have a very strong work ethic, but from now on there's going to be ZERO extra from me. I can only be burned so many times before I snap. I've snapped.

Lmao

That's something that kills me with salaried employees and boss relationships. If I can do the job in 30 hours why can't I take the rest of that time off. I've fulfilled the job I was paid to do.

If that was the case, I would have just jumped ship with no warning.

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The training part is usually easier than the actual job. So that's pretty smart.

Paramedics are paid about the same rate as fast-food workers. Don't ever choose _that_!

​@@losfromla1480 Not to mention the PTSD and abuse that comes along with it. I'd be prepared to deal with that if it earned me a decent crust. There must be thousands of people who'd be great at it driven away by the awful pay and conditions. Back to sending spam emails for giant corporations it is. Society is broken.

@@notgarybrown use ChatGPT to automate your job. Don't tell your employer. Easy peasy.

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@@notgarybrown Helping people?!? Saving lives??? What is this, a sitcom from 2013? There's no *profit* to be made in "helping society" . No, digital advertising is clearly the way forward. What society really needs is more auto-filtered junk mail! How else will they know about the exclusive 3% off sale our clients are offering this week???

Exactly! Employees are not bosses’ indentured servants.

Slavery

Borgify yourself and leave orgainc brain off the door

Even robots break down,

Oh yeah my daughter went through this; dangling her these fantastic bonuses during the job interview that never materialized.

oh yeah? How about an annual raise but not getting it for 2 years. I'm done, looking for other jobs in the meantime, because other "literal who" companies are paying 20% higher on average, with remote option. I've been lied to long enough, and I don't appreciate it anymore.

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If you're a tech company, that's a quick way to antiquate your OEMs and end up in the trash.

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One of my former colleagues did just that. And she wrote a good book too!

AND if you rephrase it in corporat-ese they might even bite the bait...

Now even when Big Tech "MAGMAN" ask these questions it's a red flag. They've been making trash since 2007. WTH

@@simonebernacchia5724 I hate corporat-ese. I'm looking for a job right now (of course I know we should always be looking for something better) and I came across a job advertisement by a small business owner that was so refreshingly informal that I regret not being able to apply. Unfortunately the commute would have been murder but it certainly stood out among the hundreds of advertisements I've had to scroll through.

Whoa there! Cool it with the antisemitism.

I'm part of Generation X and I have "manned up" multiple times with my manager. He doesn't like it, though, because he's an entitled Gen Z POS and resents me for pointing out his inconsistencies, lack of leadership ability, and hypocrisy.