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Thinking of ‘quiet quitting’ your work? Bad idea, says career coach
HAMBURG: Why am I giving more to my boss than what I am being paid for? You may have noticed a debate over this question doing the rounds on social media, in recent weeks, notably on TikTok and Instagram.
Particularly in the US, younger workers have been opening up about "quiet quitting" - a process by which you don't hand in your notice, but you do stop going above and beyond for your employer.
The process is a response to the high expectations of dedication at many places work, whereby employees are expected to answer emails on weekends, work late and take on additional assignments, for example.
Fed up with these expectations, Gen Z workers have taken to social media to share that they are resisting by quiet quitting.
"You're still performing your duties, but you're no longer subscribing to the 'hustle culture' mentality that work has to be your life," in the words of one of the first TikTok posts on the subject.
However career coach Jochen Mai does not believe quiet quitting is a universally productive solution in the long-term. In a column on networking platform Xing, the career advice author based in Germany said he understood that many people don't want to put up with daily exploitation.
And yet doing nothing but your core duties also creates new problems, he argues.
On the one hand, people begin to accept themselves as being stuck a job that they only do for the money. Then, by "quietly saying goodbye and sitting it out" nothing changes, the dissatisfaction remains.
"In doing so, they are not only degrading themselves to mercenaries - they are also only trying to treat the symptoms."
Mai warns that by quiet quitting, you are also taking a step closer to crossing the line of basic expected duties and limiting your core performance.
As such, your reputation in your career, and even your job itself, could be in jeopardy.
So what's the alternative to quiet quitting? In the career coach's point of view, you are better off actively trying to reorientate your work.
Mai suggests, for example, the method of job crafting, in which you proactively try to change the tasks and characteristics of your job to give your work new meaning again.
Talking to your supervisor is also an important step - even if it is uncomfortable and may cause a temporary conflict.
This is the only way to find out whether there can be a satisfactory solution within the company or whether an external job change is the best thing to do in the current situation.
- dpa
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Gone are the days where fresh graduates are getting peanuts and employers expect them to work beyond their scope!
That's why you see majority no longer interested to further their studies! I don't blame them! Education is free, degree is paid! And degree nowadays, in fact even decades ago are useless! The difference between those who are getting high pay and low pay is cable! If you come from T20 family, chances of you getting employ with super high pay is very good! If you come from B40 even with excellent result, you degree is useless! In fact many of those T20 children didn't even bother to study during their undergrad! Why because, they can pay for their degree!
2022-09-11 14:52
Every individual's life is unique. Ambition and purpose differ. Employers tend to put all in the same mould and expect outcome, simply because they are the paying master to the "slave". Quiet quitting is necessary if an employee feels that he/she feels shortchanged. Aspiration for advancement is definitely beyond their expectation, therefore the revolt is justified.
2022-09-11 15:20
Sure! If there's a huge prospect of upward potential and salary increment, please, work hard at it!
But let's be honest! In chinaman companies, you are expected to do elephant work for peanuts! Your chinaman boss has huge expectation of you despite paying you the minimum salary! Unless you work there to gain experience, staying and expecting things to get you better remunation is out of the question!
2022-09-11 17:07
If you work in those whiteman companies, you are sure to be paid handsomely! Come on, don't lie! Those who work in Nestle, Carlsberg, those tobacco companies are getting 5 figure salary easily! So yeah, between chinaman vs whiteman company, the choice is obvious!
2022-09-11 17:10
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Advent of Internet, communication have gone through a rapid change.
With mobile phones, photo capture, messaging and video features, communication has become real time. This change benefits employers more than the workers.
They are now capable of tormenting their workers beyond official working hours and insist on "proof of work/excuses". All these without increase on salary. WORK has become life for this generation. Mandatory long working hours (12 hours), additional job after working hours without overtime (enabled via some section in Employment Act), undertaking job outside the scope of work, proactive and teamwork crap.
What the Gen Z is doing is right and it is the employer who should rethink on how to use their employees. Slavery of the past have resurfaced in modern era through technology.
2022-09-11 14:38