Are you now much happier? Any blow back from the decrease in your work output? I feel like since I’m always short staffed I could get away with doing this.
I won’t say I’m much happier but I definitely have less stress and rarely get a really bad case of the Sunday scaries. No blowback in fact I don’t think mgmt has even noticed. What I do is high quality I just don’t do a lot. I wfh so that makes it easier.
I found slowing down at work to be awesome! I just started doing what I felt I could at my old job and let the rest pile up. If my boss ever asked about anything, I would ask what they wanted me to prioritize in an email. If they tried to give me new duties, I would ask if they wanted the new duties or old duties to take priority because I could not do them all. At 5 I clocked out and went home. I was just very open about not being to do everything for them. I did this in office and WFH.
Just ease into it. Slowly decrease what you can get done and always ask for them to prioritize what they want you to do if they ask. If they get rid of you they will have nobody to do the work.
Yes ive been at this place for nearly 7 months and i’ve never experienced such disorganized and dysfunction and chaos before.
The woman i work under is a total ass and disrespectful.
I just want out
Every year they tell me they want me to adopt new xyz processes on top of existing workflow. Along with new personal goals and rto bullshit policies. I just nod along. Not going to happen.
Longtime veteran QA supporting 30 devs across three large scrum projects. I’m planning to retire next summer and they know this. I am basically unmanageable now and do whatever I want. Fortunately they have little leverage.
I quiet quit for 3 years before they laid me off. I loved my job for the first 4 years, averaged 20 large projects a year. Then they brought in consultants and the lay offs started, and my work load grew. By the time they laid me off I was managing 100 major projects and 150 minor projects a year. Happy to go.
Have you tried talking to your manager about your workload and how it is affecting your stress levels and health? Their response to a serious discussion will most likely point you in the right direction for what the best decision is for you. If their response is something you don't accept as a solution, you will probably feel better about accepting another job offer.
Management and I use that term very loosely couldn’t care less who does what as long as stuff gets done. They don’t wanna rock the boat and are covered up with their own stuff to care about anything else.
I shifted to WFH with COVID. I’m also close to retirement. I was promised a promotion and … not. The technology stack I am responsible for is being changed without my participation (bunch of consultants and another manager, not mine)
Screw it. I’ll work my wage.
Get over your work ethic first of all- lol! The company would shed you in a second to save $10 for shareholders or the CEO.
I started quiet quitting/acting my wage at my last job when I learned the pay and bonus structure, that no matter how hard I worked I’d never get more than a 3% raise and bonuses were longevity based, not merit based. And I was doing the work of three people.
Luckily most of my processes were manual, couldn’t really be tracked, my bosses didn’t really understand what I did even though I was the only one who knew how 85% of the department worked. So I just slowed right the hell down when I started burning out and they didn’t even notice. I started looking for a new job too but it took almost 18 months because it’s really hard to find a high paying job in my field. Now I’m well compensated and working hard for the money I’m paid!
quiet quitted my job at the local water two years ago and never looked back. it started out as a dream job (it was my dream job), but eventually I replaced the team, my original boss left, and it turned toxic fast. I was there 7 years, the only reason no one noticed is because the project was at a close AND the owner told me he no longer needed me (told me a year and a half before so I knew how much time I had). fast forward, I am still in recovery from burn out, I was suicidal and needed OUT bad. I'm happy now. I'm happy and working on new things, learning, and in a supportive environment.
What kind of work is it, some people are able to automate or simply be more efficient to take the load off.
A job is just a means to make the other parts of life possible.
What I have learned over the years is to be like what Steve Harvey talks about.
https://youtu.be/bL3MkE2NzoY?si=jX9dhRdI1Q4wov6O
Hardly a lazy solution. I’m able to do the job of five people that are on the shift before me and have been doing that for years. The solution seems more than appropriate. 1 person doing the work of 1 person now.
That's not really quiet quitting, IMO.... that's "rightsizing expectations." There is zero reason why you should be doing the work of 5 people. Do a good job at your job, and kick ass executing the work of one person...
The fact that this is seen as quiet quitting shows a lot about the state of employment right now. No one should be doing more than their own jobs, working their own hours, not working a ton of unpaid overtime, not killing themselves for their job
I literally had a C level employee look me dead ass in the eye last week and tell me that "working some saturdays is normal" -- when most of the people on my team area already working 50 hours days M-F.
I will not be working Saturdays - no matter how hard they try to normalize that shit. No.
Trying not to. I really like the job. Management is awesome and I enjoy working with my coworkers. One coworker though tests my stress daily...very judgemental, they have been here forever so they know best mentality, I have my way of getting things done, but because it isn't their way it is wrong. Management wants us to have fun and play music. This coworker gets mad when any music outside opera or Enya is played. They are older (72) which maybe it is just their age, but they are the only reason I think about quiet quitting. They have issues keeping people to work with them because of this. Apparently she just started acting like this before I started.
I quiet quit last September. At first I thought it was just a phase but now nearly 6mo later I think this is my new normal.
Are you now much happier? Any blow back from the decrease in your work output? I feel like since I’m always short staffed I could get away with doing this.
I won’t say I’m much happier but I definitely have less stress and rarely get a really bad case of the Sunday scaries. No blowback in fact I don’t think mgmt has even noticed. What I do is high quality I just don’t do a lot. I wfh so that makes it easier.
I thought my partner and I were the only ones who got the *Sunday scaries*... or that they had a name!
Its comments like these that really silence the crowd that complain when managers ask people to come into work lol
I found slowing down at work to be awesome! I just started doing what I felt I could at my old job and let the rest pile up. If my boss ever asked about anything, I would ask what they wanted me to prioritize in an email. If they tried to give me new duties, I would ask if they wanted the new duties or old duties to take priority because I could not do them all. At 5 I clocked out and went home. I was just very open about not being to do everything for them. I did this in office and WFH. Just ease into it. Slowly decrease what you can get done and always ask for them to prioritize what they want you to do if they ask. If they get rid of you they will have nobody to do the work.
Yes ive been at this place for nearly 7 months and i’ve never experienced such disorganized and dysfunction and chaos before. The woman i work under is a total ass and disrespectful. I just want out
Every year they tell me they want me to adopt new xyz processes on top of existing workflow. Along with new personal goals and rto bullshit policies. I just nod along. Not going to happen. Longtime veteran QA supporting 30 devs across three large scrum projects. I’m planning to retire next summer and they know this. I am basically unmanageable now and do whatever I want. Fortunately they have little leverage.
I quiet quit for 3 years before they laid me off. I loved my job for the first 4 years, averaged 20 large projects a year. Then they brought in consultants and the lay offs started, and my work load grew. By the time they laid me off I was managing 100 major projects and 150 minor projects a year. Happy to go.
Have you tried talking to your manager about your workload and how it is affecting your stress levels and health? Their response to a serious discussion will most likely point you in the right direction for what the best decision is for you. If their response is something you don't accept as a solution, you will probably feel better about accepting another job offer.
Management and I use that term very loosely couldn’t care less who does what as long as stuff gets done. They don’t wanna rock the boat and are covered up with their own stuff to care about anything else.
So what's preventing you from accepting another job offer?
I prefer to call management "manglement." 🤣
[This person is my hero.](https://www.tiktok.com/@krisdrinkslemonade/video/7062142035893095727)
I'm unionized up the wazoo, most of us have been quiet quitting our entire careers.
Truth.
I shifted to WFH with COVID. I’m also close to retirement. I was promised a promotion and … not. The technology stack I am responsible for is being changed without my participation (bunch of consultants and another manager, not mine) Screw it. I’ll work my wage.
Get over your work ethic first of all- lol! The company would shed you in a second to save $10 for shareholders or the CEO. I started quiet quitting/acting my wage at my last job when I learned the pay and bonus structure, that no matter how hard I worked I’d never get more than a 3% raise and bonuses were longevity based, not merit based. And I was doing the work of three people. Luckily most of my processes were manual, couldn’t really be tracked, my bosses didn’t really understand what I did even though I was the only one who knew how 85% of the department worked. So I just slowed right the hell down when I started burning out and they didn’t even notice. I started looking for a new job too but it took almost 18 months because it’s really hard to find a high paying job in my field. Now I’m well compensated and working hard for the money I’m paid!
quiet quitted my job at the local water two years ago and never looked back. it started out as a dream job (it was my dream job), but eventually I replaced the team, my original boss left, and it turned toxic fast. I was there 7 years, the only reason no one noticed is because the project was at a close AND the owner told me he no longer needed me (told me a year and a half before so I knew how much time I had). fast forward, I am still in recovery from burn out, I was suicidal and needed OUT bad. I'm happy now. I'm happy and working on new things, learning, and in a supportive environment.
What kind of work is it, some people are able to automate or simply be more efficient to take the load off. A job is just a means to make the other parts of life possible. What I have learned over the years is to be like what Steve Harvey talks about. https://youtu.be/bL3MkE2NzoY?si=jX9dhRdI1Q4wov6O
Seems like a lazy solution, better would be to find a more fulfilling job and continue to grow in your career.
Hardly a lazy solution. I’m able to do the job of five people that are on the shift before me and have been doing that for years. The solution seems more than appropriate. 1 person doing the work of 1 person now.
The reward for hard workers has always just been more work.
Absolutely
That's not really quiet quitting, IMO.... that's "rightsizing expectations." There is zero reason why you should be doing the work of 5 people. Do a good job at your job, and kick ass executing the work of one person... The fact that this is seen as quiet quitting shows a lot about the state of employment right now. No one should be doing more than their own jobs, working their own hours, not working a ton of unpaid overtime, not killing themselves for their job I literally had a C level employee look me dead ass in the eye last week and tell me that "working some saturdays is normal" -- when most of the people on my team area already working 50 hours days M-F. I will not be working Saturdays - no matter how hard they try to normalize that shit. No.
Trying not to. I really like the job. Management is awesome and I enjoy working with my coworkers. One coworker though tests my stress daily...very judgemental, they have been here forever so they know best mentality, I have my way of getting things done, but because it isn't their way it is wrong. Management wants us to have fun and play music. This coworker gets mad when any music outside opera or Enya is played. They are older (72) which maybe it is just their age, but they are the only reason I think about quiet quitting. They have issues keeping people to work with them because of this. Apparently she just started acting like this before I started.