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Companies Should Stop Being Offended by The “Quiet Quitting” Employees
Let’s not pretend this hasn’t been around for ages; it merely has a name now
“Quiet quitting” it’s a term that has started popping up in different articles on the Internet for a while now, but especially on social media platforms like LinkedIn where people are debating whether or not this is ethical.
Let me break this to you. Quiet quitting is nothing new. It has been around for ages. You know those people in your company who have never been willing to go the extra mile, but they weren’t stupid or incapable; they simply learned to navigate a workplace and work only as much as meeting their basic requirements for the job not to get fired?
I hated working with those people when I was younger and more energetic. I dreaded working with them, so I often preferred to do their job so I didn’t have to ask them several times for something that would have taken them ten minutes. And because it was only ten minutes, I often did it myself, even if it wasn’t my job.
I had multiple fights with my former boss telling him that this colleague was screwing with every one of us in the team and that he should stop him from having this entitled attitude.
