Work Reform

a quiet quitter is someone who does their job. they use a lot of tone, insinuation and connotation talking about it, but if you press them for a definition, a quiet quitter is someone who does their job.

My understanding is the following: In companies, it is assumed that employees will try to reach for the promotion, getting a higher position for a higher pay. Managers have been trained to use that to push people to do more than what is strictly required of them, letting people think that's how they'll progress their career. Quiet quitter are people that simply stopped aiming for the promotion, they do what their job entail and that's it, no more trying to get more, no extra, no internal politics. They don'tgive a fuck about all this, all they wantis the paycheck and to enjoy their life away from all this non-sense.

They pinned the term quiet quitter, because this is usually the behavior of an employee that is about to quit the company for another position elsewhere, except quiet quitter don't plan on quitting.

It is a term for people who do their job, but don't do extra work for free. They are not in violation of their contract.

To me, it's doing your job just well enough that they can't actually fire you for anything, but no so well that you're being taken advantage of.

I also call it "proper time management" I properly manage my time so I can get all of MY work done in the time allocated to me, it's not my fault other people have terrible time management.

You know there's no definition of "quiet quitter" that makes sense to the people seriously using the term. They can't exactly say, "someone who does their job as specified in their official job duties" or "someone we can't abuse because they know labor law". Otherwise, nobody will sympathize with their goals (i.e., asking for things they aren't paying for).

Sort of? I think the idea is, you do your work, and not an inkling more, by any means necessary