CEO wants to punish employees for quietly quitting

[MikeLowrrrey]

https://nypost.com/2022/08/21/can-i-...etly-quitting/

Can I discipline my employees who are ‘quietly quitting’?

I’ve been hearing a lot about the new term “quiet quitting” where employees just coast, doing the bare minimum to get by. I feel that my team performs that way. Is this the new work norm with this generation, and should I just accept it? Or can I require these employees to put in more effort?

If you just accept employees doing the bare minimum to get by, then you’re “quiet quitting” your job as a manager. Bottom line: You can’t force anyone to do anything. Employees who coast are usually disengaged from their work, so figuring out how to get them motivated is the only way to get them to naturally sustain higher engagement. If you can’t, or they won’t, then you can set expectations for performance and outcomes. And if they don’t meet those expectations, you can quietly fire the quitters.

[HerculesGhost]

"Quietly quitting" is a forced meme (srs). Twitter keeps trying to force articles that talk about it on their trending section. Seems like a media campaign to get people to do more than what they're paid to do. 90% of people just coast through their jobs and dgaf about it when 5 o'clock hits.

[Ratfish]

Imagine thinking that people doing the bare minimum is a new phenomenon

[Numba1Misker]

jokes on them, i am union. been slacking for 15 years

[katya422]

Let's think about this.

- lack of employees
- falling real wages

Hmm...

Yeah, I'm going to go with No. You haven't got the leverage.

Or I guess you *could* discipline them. Then they might be motivated to job hop and get paid a little more.

[whogotmuhbeers]

Pay them based on performance. Problem solved.

[SpeakethTruth]

Honestly fuk you if you expect people to work hard when you don't pay them appropriately. Most people realise fairly quickly when their efforts aren't being recognised financially. Especially if the people who get promoted are incompetent at best.

[Numba1Misker]

lol i checked out years ago

keep up

[Underwrought]

Honestly fuk you if you expect people to work hard when you don't pay them appropriately. Most people realise fairly quickly when their efforts aren't being recognised financially. Especially if the people who get promoted are incompetent at best.

This. Everyone is tired of being paid less than what they should be. And inflation made it worse.

[swoleyo]

Pay them based on performance. Problem solved.

This is a terrible idea. The trucking industry is based on performance pay. This is why you have some semi in the left lane doing 85mph tailgating a car. Not all professions should be based on performance. Public safety also has a value.

[keyboardworkout]

Imagine thinking that people doing the bare minimum is a new phenomenon

Federal and state governments are built around bare minimum performance from emoloyees.

[r32gojirra]

What do you think about someone who does the bare minimum

[sooby]

Pay them based on performance. Problem solved.

depends on the job imo, gotta make sure it doesn't devolve into some phucking cutthroat and toxic work environment with people just continuously trying to step on each other and backstab for more pay. it's not always beneficial for a company and everything at the cost of pure revenue and profit performance isnt the be all end all.


i think performance-based incentives is probably a better way forward.

but yeah, phuck these CEO's lmao, you can't blame people for quietly quitting if there isn't a path to advance, much incentive, lack of work-life balance, etc. people just tryna live.

[mchabs]

with my first job after uni i worked way too hard. would come in early, stay late, say "yes" to everything leadership asked me to do. and guess what? I still didn't get a raise or promotion.

i quickly realized it wasn't worth it and it just led to burnout.

bare minimum is all you should give.

[AlwaysFocus]

I perform based off environment.

If the workplace and boss are chit, of course ill do whatever I can to also make it chit.



If I see benefits of my labor, then ill do good. Some employers never figure this out though.

[iloveus]

[TheJediBrah]

Boss wants to discipline lazy employees

tHiS iS nEw!!!!

but yeah, phuck these CEO's lmao, you can't blame people for quietly quitting if there isn't a path to advance, much incentive, lack of work-life balance, etc. people just tryna live.

Imagine being this entitled

[Adam16121]

A lot of workers wonder what incentive there is to do more than the minimum. Since better pay isn’t on the table, the only option employers have is to deal with it or fire the employee. Employees don’t care, there’s plenty of places to worn that offer a chit pay. This is not an employers market.

[mr.left hook]

Let's think about this.

- lack of employees
- falling real wages

Hmm...

Yeah, I'm going to go with No. You haven't got the leverage.

Or I guess you *could* discipline them. Then they might be motivated to job hop and get paid a little more.

i would pay you OT just to stick around BBY

[Adam16121]

A lot of workers wonder what incentive is there to do more than the minimum. Since better pay isn’t on the table, the only option employers have is to deal with it or fire the employee. Employees don’t care, there’s plenty of places to work that offer a chit pay. This is not an employers market.

[FAPhaggot]

Let's think about this.

- lack of employees
- falling real wages

Hmm...

Yeah, I'm going to go with No. You haven't got the leverage.

Or I guess you *could* discipline them. Then they might be motivated to job hop and get paid a little more.

Based and Katyapilled.

Honestly fuk you if you expect people to work hard when you don't pay them appropriately. Most people realise fairly quickly when their efforts aren't being recognised financially.

That's what the Soviets found out. Wild how our "free market economy" has to repeat their mistakes.

[SmithMachineGuy]

"How dare these plebeians not do more than contractually obligated so I can get more rich off their additional, unpaid, work!"

[outfoxxed]

Honestly fuk you if you expect people to work hard when you don't pay them appropriately. Most people realise fairly quickly when their efforts aren't being recognised financially. Especially if the people who get promoted are incompetent at best.

Yeah i realized pretty quick i can do 40% of the work for 100% of the pay

[roosky11]

I called this when the first thread got posted. Patiently waiting for the new tiktok videos of those complaining about having lost their job because of following a stupid trend. Advertising yourself on social media doing stupid things is a great way to have bad consequences. Why does everyone act surprised?

[TheAdlerian]

"Quietly quitting" is a forced meme (srs). Twitter keeps trying to force articles that talk about it on their trending section. Seems like a media campaign to get people to do more than what they're paid to do. 90% of people just coast through their jobs and dgaf about it when 5 o'clock hits.

The media is trying very hard to make Marxism happen.

In Marxism people just get tired of capitalist slavery and stop cooperating. There's no real fighting.

It's the result of education and realization.

It is likely that people aren't quietly quitting but rather the media is trying to make that a thing.

Meanwhile, a supervisor of mine, many years ago told me that he was in the Nazy and there's a saying that only 2% of people actually work. So, people have been quietly quitting since there have been jobs.

[BroncManiac]

Federal and state governments are built around bare minimum performance from emoloyees.

It’s ****ty, but the system pushed people to do the minimum. The reward for being a high performer is more work. Meanwhile, slackers get put in a corner so they won’t cause problems. The performers have to pick up the slack. Everyone gets paid the same. High performers become unmotivated seeing the slackers doing nothing and being paid the same. Why bust your ass?

[seanb1979]

Corporate america seems to cater to cultural/leftist marxism. This is just how it starts. When we move to a one party government and they run businesses, people will do less than ever.

[TheJediBrah]

A lot of workers wonder what incentive there is to do more than the minimum. Since better pay isn’t on the table, the only option employers have is to deal with it or fire the employee. Employees don’t care, there’s plenty of places to worn that offer a chit pay. This is not an employers market.

How do you ****s say things like this with a straight face

You need incentives to do your job right? Ffs doing your job well should be the bare minimum required to keep it. Imagine thinking you should be getting constant promotions and pats on the back just for doing your job.

You guys are the work equivalent of a fat 2/10 sloot that does the bare minimum and thinks she deserves a 9/10 chad

[Maestro]

I called this when the first thread got posted. Patiently waiting for the new tiktok videos of those complaining about having lost their job because of following a stupid trend. Advertising yourself on social media doing stupid things is a great way to have bad consequences. Why does everyone act surprised?

I think the point is, most people "quietly quitting" are also one foot out the door and spend their free time looking at other jobs. So, even if they inevitably get fired they most likely already have something else lined up.

[JUGGERNAUT1333]

Honestly fuk you if you expect people to work hard when you don't pay them appropriately. Most people realise fairly quickly when their efforts aren't being recognised financially. Especially if the people who get promoted are incompetent at best.

This, and it's honestly insane to think CEOS and Executives, who are in charge of major decisions, are not smart enough to realize this. I work for a good company who rewards effort so I have no issues going above my normal job duties, but I've worked for the companies that reward hard work with more work as well.

Everyone is fed up with the CEOS taking home 7 figure bonuses every year, while the employees are getting a measly 1-3% raise everywhere if they are lucky.