• snooggums@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    Quiet quitting is just doing your job/acting your wage.

    People on the internet love to make dramatic sounding names for normal stuff.

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        3 days ago

        ‘This New Trend Called …’ is to Gen Z what ‘Breaking News: …’ is to Boomers: it won’t really impact your life straight away but still you feel you should listen to that FOMO calling.

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      2 days ago

      To be fair, “quiet quitting” is a labour action that goes back decades if not centuries. A more common name is “work(ing) to rule”.

      I remember that term from when my teachers were preparing to strike a long while ago. The fact is, most workers, teachers especially, go beyond the bare minimums that their jobs require. It made a big difference when teachers who used to supervise after-school activities just went home instead. In jobs that are associated with “vocational awe”, it’s very common for people to do much more than the minimum requirements for their jobs, so when they engage in a “work to rule” campaign, there’s a really big difference.

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          2 days ago

          Except “doing your job” doesn’t capture that it’s a deliberate change in how you perform at your job, and “acting your wage” is a newfangled way of saying the long established term, with its on Wikipedia page, “Work to Rule”.

    • 🍉 Albert 🍉@lemmy.world
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      3 days ago

      it’s just a new term for something that exists.

      no idea why it was every a big deal.

      now everything is a culture war for engagement.

      was there any drama when we started calling “beouf” “beef”?

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        Not only was there drama people couldn’t talk about the beouf they’d gotten into without starting it up again