‘Quiet quitting’ ... have you heard of it?

many years ago my husband had just started a new job 2 weeks before our daughter was born 4 weeks prem, and we also had an 18 month old as well. His job started at 4am till 12 noon driving a large truck. She was ill from the day she was born and cried morning noon and night for the first 4 weeks of her life until she had her first operation. He could not sleep, I could not sleep, and he was, therefore, dangerous on the road. They paid him off rather than give him compassionate leave as he had not been there 3 months.

Don't really understand these comments as I've never worked anywhere for more than a few weeks where I was not happy. If you are happy and feel at home with nice colleagues in your work place you don't mind doing a bit extra from time to time

Its a way of taking power back into your own hands without burning your bridges.

Im lucky in that although there were mobiles there were no smart phones at the time when I was coming upto retirement. And not everyone had a mobile!

Even smart phones can be in another room/on charge/in a poor reception area. I became a past mistress of the art of making myself difficult for people like employers to reach.

I don’t think many carers would get the opportunity to “quietly quit”….

I have just seen on the news that now being discuss is also “quiet firing”, they described it as an employer not wanting to outright fire an employee so instead they slowly but steadily reduce an employees workload down to nothing, while also continuously evading the employees requests to discuss and understand what’s going on and why and if they can improve somehow. All until the employee becomes so frustrated that they just quit! I’ve heard some accounts of former employees of wherever being on the receiving end of “quiet firing”, probably to do with employers not wanting to have to pay severance or something but also probably being insecure in that they are afraid of confrontation so they do everything to avoid it, though in my opinion all employers should have a strong backbone, seems like the majority do not.

What will comes next? Quiet hiring? Suddenly you get a phone call from someone demanding to know why you haven’t come in for your first shift?

Yes I have experienced it in teams that I've worked with. Anyone who does that puts an added burden on other members of the team, very unfairly.

I shall keep this thread for inspiration. The treatment of support staff in schools could, I am sure, start a new thread. For example, when you ask to be paid the same as a teacher for doing the SAME job, such as after school academic tutoring, you are told "No, you are not a teacher," or "This is, after all, a vocation," or "Surely the reward is in helping the students." So you do it for less money to help the struggling students, feeling torn between conscience and frustration at being exploited. If you refuse, agency staff will be employed and of course, paid more than you to do an, in many cases, inferior job. Meanwhile, the money is always found to promote senior staff so they can attend more meetings while you make them look good. So much for the caring professions. They sure don't care for their staff.

Don't you also feel @Kryptonite that a good days work for a good days pay is no longer considered adequate? Employers want blood, don't they?

Lovebeigecsrdigsns
I find that to be a sweeping, and extremely insulting comment, to thousands of employers out there, who care very much for their employees, who are very aware of the need to keep things going because people depend on you.
I’ve no doubt there are unscrupulous employers out there, but don’t tar them all with the same brush.

I agree Sara. I was an employer too and find that comment very offensive.

Sorry to say that it's not offensive when I look back at some of my experiences.

Some of your experiences with some employers. Don’t, as Sara said, tar all employers with the same brush.

Kryptonite

I shall keep this thread for inspiration. The treatment of support staff in schools could, I am sure, start a new thread. For example, when you ask to be paid the same as a teacher for doing the SAME job, such as after school academic tutoring, you are told "No, you are not a teacher," or "This is, after all, a vocation," or "Surely the reward is in helping the students." So you do it for less money to help the struggling students, feeling torn between conscience and frustration at being exploited. If you refuse, agency staff will be employed and of course, paid more than you to do an, in many cases, inferior job. Meanwhile, the money is always found to promote senior staff so they can attend more meetings while you make them look good. So much for the caring professions. They sure don't care for their staff.

I did help as an assistant on low pay for some time. And then I chose to make big sacrifices to spend 4 years studying to become a qualified teacher. I do believe that entitled me to a higher salary afterwards.