The Truth About Quiet Quitting | Simon Sinek 

If I where you then I would choose the apple one then.

​@@michaels3708 but would you want to be payed like Walmart employee?

Yeah, when I first heard of quiet quitting I assumed it meant leaving on your last day without saying goodbye to anyone 😂 _THAT'S_ quiet quitting. You Quit, Quietly

Totally agree, most people don't understand what quiet quitting is. Somehow, not working in your free time, off the clock, is now called 'quiet quitting'. Remember 10 years ago when all the tech companies talked about 'work life balance'?

My understanding of quiet quitting - is, quitting being manipulated into working beyond what you get paid for - for some promise of career progress that often never happens!

They talking nonsense and actually admit d workload is more than usual if u can be quietly quitting by just doing exactly what they were employed to do. Gen z did not create the Ukraine war inflation

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1st blame the TV shows and the movie industry for portraying company bosses as Evil people. not only that evil people, they portray them as someone who do nothing yet making huge money. 😂😂 instead of telling what their job is and how riskier their job are. 2nd because of the what I said above. young people doesn't want to talk honestly and is afraid to open up. unless your boss is as young like at his mid 30. you do not need to worry about them misunderstanding you for opening up. coz old people knew the stage of adulthood. they knew if you are just being rebellious coz you are at that age range. 3rd social media makes young people think everything is about "themselves". and this one here is the biggest problem of all. if you work on a company. you are working to make the company grow. this is not about yourself. if you wanted to make it about you. you go build your own company yourself. 4th young people today don't have plans ahead of them. they are short sighted. if you ask them their plan 10 yrs after working in this company. most of them will answer "meh". ----------- in China people knew working on a factory is just a temporary experience for them. those who have no plan at all stays there working for more than 15yrs. people who have goal in life and knew what they are doing will end up resigning in 5yrs but while maintaining a good relationship with their boss they will build their own repair shop in shenzhen. and use their connection with their previews boss and become their parts distributor. and their previews boss will also introduce his friend to him to expand his network of supply chain and this is how Chinese people work ethics. they grow together. unlike in America. everybody think everyone in the room are enemies LOOOOL

I do it 1st interview. I don't need trust when I am telling you exactly what I am going to do and comfortable with

Doesn't matter how friendly your boss seems, never trust them. Trust is a vulnerability they will exploit.

Sorry to hear. Many of us have similar stories which brought us all to videos on this topic. Some get ahead, and some don't. I laugh at the confidence being displayed by the "chosen ones" who lucked out. Their mental states would be completely different had they not been "chosen".

What do you like to do? What have you always wanted to do? Create your next opportunity.

@@productioninquiry8937 Great question. I ask my colleagues the same question when they tell me that they are unhappy with their current job.

Just go on social security and work part time. Eff the employers.

First, the manager who asked for your plan (which you delivered on) may have intended to uphold his part of the bargain but found he was not allowed to by HIS manager, when the time came. Those things happen. Second, the VPs got raises probably BECAUSE they cut costs, not merely AFTER cutting costs. (YOU = costs.)

Yes! The definition has drastically changed.

That was how I understood quiet quitting, too. This new definition of quiet quitting implies that one is not allowed to have boundaries in their work. The honesty thing is nice, but in reality, we all have our blind spots which limits our capacity to be truly open and honest. Awareness precedes radical honesty, which sadly many lack 😞

I remember the original definition too. It does seem that some trends are being controlled by media and neutralised. Because imagine if ghosting jobs became a thing.. they'd be in real trouble. So they had to turn it around and make it sound like sticking to your normal contract is a bad thing and there was never anything to it lol

​@@2011ekon its how those companies and the media gaslight us into thinking its us. Like no mf'er, its ya'll!

I define it as someone who has given up on doing work that reflects the best of their abilities. I never heard of the definition of someone actually quitting.

HALLELUJAH that is CORRECT!!!!

@superstacyrenee1 Attrition at Amazon is costing the company $8 billion a year, with workers twice as likely to leave by choice than be fired. What kind of morons want a 2-year turnover for their employees? Onboarding a new employee requires about 6 months-- to truly understand an organization, its culture, the role, and how broader teams function and intersect. If someone comes in in a highly specialized, or siloed role, it would take at least 3-4 months. This guy talks like he's never had a job.

@@productioninquiry8937 He probably hasn't or he is paid to say these things.

@moxopal5681 Younger generations are not falling for the BS. The workforce/culture will change and these fools don't see it coming.

No, no, just voluntarily over-perform to your employment contract, don't ask for a raise, but ask your manager to 'provide a path' for you to take on more work and responsibility, and THEN... you will have earned a lovely CONVERSATION about whether you get that raise or not (spoiler alert, you won't).

U put more into that comment than ur 8 hours a day and no ot 😜

I agree with you 💯. I also agree with the very last part so much, people are replaced so fast it's mind blowing, especially the one's that truly thought they were indispensable. All I know is, at present, if i had to be replaced, I'd say good luck to the poor fucker taking over from me, they better have their shit together or they are in for a rude awakening. 😂😂😂😂 (Oh, and it's not because I think I'm anything special, no it's because this particular job is relentless, and not exactly what you'd call fulfilling on any level)

@@leaveittothediva I so agree...they don't realize the amount of work I do...never any down time...I am busy everyday...

Boo boo. Stop crying.

Losers talk and Aholes

​@@yonchrrdon't sound like crying. Just accepting the world of work for what it is. I do what I'm paid to do. Want more? Pay more.

@@LoudaroundLincoln go above and beyond and u get paid more.

​@@yonchrrfuck that , never volunteer!

Define "fair"........ not so simple all of a sudden now is it?

​​@@darkgardener9577appropriate to market salary rates? workload that's reasonable and can be managed within working hours? I can't believe you'd confuse yourself on what's "FAIR" lol

It's nice if you have the luxury of saying no to a job, but that's not something everyone can necessarily do.

@@eurika297 Well that is considered wildly unfair depending on who you talk to. "market rate" is racist, white nationalist, colonials and capitalist exploitation of worker who deserve a "living wage" (another meaningless term) Just ask a Democrat. Low/no skill labor is overpaid almost nationwide by that standard. So much so most blue states have stepped in and artificially set the price of low/no skill labor much higher than it's market rate. What's "reasonable"....that's a subjective term that is wildly different from a 35 y/o business owner and former Navy SEAL vs. a 17 y/o spoiled brat. Can be managed within working hours? More wildly subjective standard that can mean anything. If "FAIR" was so easy to define then why can't you do it?

​@@darkgardener9577living wage or industry standard, whichever is higher. Simple as.

I am the same way

What industry do you work in may I ask? My goal is to get there too.

@@bvespertine Get a job that is fully or partly remote and just do your work in 32 hours a week. I do the same.

people get opportunities when they're hungry. Not completely related.

@@crypticsailor Not always true. Sometimes trying to go above (within a company) just ends up in locking yourself down into your position. You're seen as indispensable, so there are no new chances to grow your career. Sometimes if you've got a company that has no opportunities (outside moving to management), then you're left with no "next". If you're willing to move to a new company then perhaps.. but when health insurance and family are in the mix, jumping job to job isn't always practical. As hungry as I am for success, my kids hunger for food outweighs mine.

@@JackyPup it's actually always true. Some people are lazy and hungry but that's not the same. The inverse is also guaranteed e.g. if you are not hungry you will get none -- unless born with a silver spoon up in @.

@@JackyPup if you have the right mindset you don't define yourself in the company alone. You will be valuable and find a way to present that. Looking at a company for a handout to define your whole life is the issue if you're stuck in a job. Switch to a job with a relevant valuable profession or get exp and go to another one when they don't value yours.

It comes down to mindset. I never did a great job for any employer, I always did a great job for myself. The work ethic was for my own standards. The people who show up and just do the bare minimum or only excel for a reward are the people who never truly succeed in life. They are do busy waiting for compensation.

Amen. My days of putting as much effort in as if it was my own business are over.

Summary: incentivize your employees to go the extra mile

@@paulpetersen-iu1hehat attitude works perfectly when you’re paying yourself. Otherwise, if you’re not being taken advantage of for your work ethic, much less rewarded for your efforts in a meaningful way, consider yourself lucky

@@mactireliath2356 this is also true. My uncle was lazy in being a chef at a restaurant. My uncle was no longer lazy when he had his own restaurant lol. He worked so hard

Say you didn’t watch the clip without saying you didn’t watch the clip.

Where are you getting this information? Most of it is wrong. Some of what you say is wrong because it is out of date, by a decade or more. Yes corporations want to maximize the output from employees. They want this through efficiency and reduced waste, not extra hours. The business world has known, since the 1930s, that productivity goes down when the work hours go up without some sort of break or stimulant. All corporations, in the western world, have policies about overtime and penalties for unapproved overtime. The real facts are that the average worker has a considerable amount of wasted time. Productivity usually follows a bell curve. It starts low and quickly increases at the start then around the 4-5 hour mark it starts dropping. If a break is taken it will repeat the bell curve for another 4-5 hours. There is still inefficiency due to the employee and due to the logistics of the work itself. Corporations want employees to take a breaks and have a stimulant like coffee and/or a smoke. Overtime abuse is part of what any HR department watches as well as higher management. Managers get into trouble when they have too much overtime. They really get into trouble if it is uncompensated as there are severe penalties from local, state, and federal regulatory bodies. An example would be a Labor Dept. audit where 10 employees are interviewed. The results are then extrapolated across the entire labor force. So if 3 out of 10 are found to have had unpaid time, they take 30% of the entire company and the average salary associated then go back 2-5 years. The potential for loss far exceeds any gain. Salaried employee time abuse is probably what you are thinking of. This is the real are of abuse. But since 1990 the Federal and some state Labor Laws have been reducing what jobs qualify for salaried. Many salaried job roles became hourly in the last three decades. So this still has a lot of potential for abuse but is hugely reduced and some businesses have only management qualify as salaried. Simply put, the majority of workers are hourly. It was around 70% hourly the last time I looked into it several years ago. The contract work is negligible. Although this might have changed since the pandemic. Work breaks are more likely to be neglected in physical labor jobs unless the job is classified as high risk/ high danger. This would be your loading dock workers, delivery workers, etc. So this is an area I would look into for abuse. Unfortunately, some are semi self employed, like Uber style jobs. This is an area I cannot speak about with any authority but I know it is a new style of work environment and labor laws will eventually catch up. But it seems that it is more self employed style with self imposed work hours. The problem that is new is that the percentage of workers that do not put in decent work, never mind hard work, is increasing. There has always been a set of the workforce that have poor work ethics. But it is growing in the last twenty years. Any management course will teach that this needs to be addressed immediately so good workers don't feel like they are not acknowledged for the hard work. The problem is the increased percentage is too much to deal with. What you didn't bother to listen to is that workplace expectations might need to change. But it is a slow transition. If employer and employee treat work like a casual affair then this might balance the tables. I personally don't think this is tenable because work is almost always a group dynamic. I wrote enough already so I wont go into group dynamics vs personal expectations.

I believe you are missing the point of learning how to multitask and work hard. You should never do those things for anyone else. You should be doing them for yourself. Never have. I done a good job for anyone else but for my own standards. If you don't learn how to hustle when you make no money, you're not going to be able to hustle and make real money.

@@patchup where did I get the information? From my own experience and that of my colleagues, friends, and family. I didn’t just randomly make it up. You can spout off productivity data but I’ve lived it. It wasn’t just one corporation I was referring to, but many. At some point, having to work after normal business hours, there will be burnout, where your normal productivity and motivation suffer.

@@paulpetersen-iu1he I believe you’re missing the point of corporations taking advantage of employees. Multitasking is not good for productivity, maybe you’re not up on the new data. The rest of what you’re saying is word salad. You get paid to do a job, it’s an exchange of time for money.

Jesus …. I thought where you were going with this was gonna be “my sister in law died of a heart attack when she visited that office” 😮

The red flag is "we're a family". No one at work is your family, nor do you want them to be. It's just more BS tactics by corporations to get you to want to come to work for little pay and benefits.

I'm a convert to quiet quitting. Not because it's 'fair' to only work as hard as the least hard-working person. Because you'll literally wear yourself out... wear out your joints, drive yourself crazy... if you physically and mentally push yourself beyond what's expected. What I didn't know until later, was there is no recognition for hard work. It's mainly about the 'buddy factor', the 'secret handshake'.

Precisely, I’m not quite quitting. But am still quitting. The only thing that the boss will say to my future jobs is that I can be trusted. Not being a hard worker, not calling in ever, show up early leave late. Or how productive my work is. I get compliments from strangers lol. Knowing that the companies around me see me and are interested in me… so good to know ppl other jobs are in waiting for me hehe

You hit the nail on the head. It's all situation based. If you have a dead end job, quiet quitting makes sense. If you are smart and educated, it doesn't make sense. It's better to job hop, every 3 to 4 years and keep improving skills. If you are on minimum, if doesn't matter if you job hop or not, you are replaceable. If you are on high wages, the best thing to do is, job hope every 3 years, it looks good on your cv as well

This is true, I work a low wage job and work pretty hard. There are people who probably can do half as much as me in an hour but they get paid the same. It bugs me sometimes, but I just can't work slow. Working quickly is the only way I know how to work. I compensate for it a little bit though by taking long bathroom breaks, never staying late or never clocking in early

It's so much fun to see Americans talk about “quiet quitting”. In Europe you are paid a X amount of money to do a Y amount of work, and that's it. After 8 hours, we are gone. It's called having a life. If you pay a taxi driver $12 to drive you from point A to point B, and he does just that, is that considered “quiet quitting” in the US ? Do Americans expect a taxi ride to go beyond point B ? If a painter paints your house for a sum, is that considered “quiet quitting” ? Do Americans also expect him to mow the lawn and clean the pool ? So why would a corporation expect an employee to do more, without more pay ?

Excellently put. Thank you. I was feeling increasingly irritated listening to his repetitive drivvel and you just summed up why.

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I bet this guy is a really slippery middle manager to work with

Finally someone who sees through his Bullsh!t.

Completely agree with you

And then blame the worker for not being a “hard driving owner”!!! Disgusting tbh.

That would had to me exactly ONCE. Then I’m out.

@@KJ99otis I wanted to quit many times, but its not easy leaving. Eventually I just couldnt take it anymore. Having to deal with such awful people daily is draining.

Exactly.

Beautifully said

in academia they want mature staff to leave so they can be replaced with younger academics on much lower salaries

My boss is doing the same thing to me 😂 she wants me to quit so bad because im not kissing her ass all day long and tell her shes perfect ! Meanwhile her other ass-kissing employee is exploited 😅

I’m sure if the two of you met, the feeling would be mutual!😊

@@paulwarren8832you’re basing this off one RU-vid comment? Nice

@@Drenwickification a journey of 1000 miles starts with but one step…

@@paulwarren8832the floor is made of floor. Namaste.

@@paulwarren8832not that big a step, though.

Now it is: 'The company exists so the shareholders can earn a profit'. Everything else will be squeezed.

Fair pay is based on *your* work, not someone else's. Sorry, but that doesn't factor into what you should be paid. Envy is a poisonous emotion.

@@Fredjoe5 What are you going on about? Executives and shareholders are not concerned with what's fair. They're just acting on greed. Envy has nothing to do with anything.

ooofffttttt i feel this so deeply, have been in a very similar position myself. Something has got to give, I want work to slot into my life and not the other way around. There is growing awareness around these issues, hopefully they iron themselves out soon.

I've been in trades since 1990ish. Journey persons have become defacto formans. Even an apprentice I know personally, is expected to lead newer apprentices "while we are short of journeymen". So if Journey persons are now formans, what does that do to quality of instructions and mentoring the apprentices get?

@@patgenier1965 The quality definitely wasn't there in my field (fire alarm). It was the blind leading the blind in an already grey field. Still can't believe this is the way things are done. Customers are paying top dollar for a bunch of clowns (in my case) that just don't really know what they're doing because training never was a main concern. I've literally spent more time learning to drudge through all of our stupid apps (basically tracking metrics) than learning how to do the actual work we're being paid for. Amazing.

So true as a teacher and someone who doesn’t have any kids I see how detrimental it is when people dont treat their family as a priority. I see lots of affluent kids with parents that don’t spend quality time with them because of their work demands. The impact is massive, it takes a lot of time and energy to raise a kid money and material goods cannot replace it. We need to value child rearing as a job and something that needs allocated time in society. We now live in a world where both caretakers work full time and are too tired to raise the kids.

Sorry to dampen your enthusiasm but your boss has simply understood you very well and gets the most out of you.

Yeah, he is a corporate shill.