QUIET QUITTING IS OLD, AND I MEAN OLD NEWS!
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WHAT THE HECK IS QUIET QUITTING?
When I first heard the term quiet quitting I illogically thought it must be related to the definition of both words. Employees are leaving without notifying their boss or the company. I often wondered how long it would take for some firms to notice and stop depositing the MONEY. Weeks, months, longer? I should have tried this!
I was wrong. “Quiet Quitting” – Employees do minimum job responsibilities and show zero initiative. They do just enough to keep their job! This has been going on since Adam and Eve hired gardeners. The HR equivalent of: “Failure to Meet Expectations- But Too Dang Much Work To Fire.”
We have all worked with this type. Heck- some of you may be one! {Nah, you would not be reading my blogs!} I hired (a 60-minute interview is not that effective when talking to a C-grade actress) and managed some of these “quiet quitters.” It will not surprise you; WE REALLY, I MEAN, REALLY DID NOT GET ALONG!
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Let’s divide workers into two groups. Fifty percent are right of center, and the others (50% for those that hate math) are left of the center.
GROUP I- RIGHT SIDE – MOSTLY HARD-WORKING PEOPLE!
You will find employees and future entrepreneurs striving for: Promotions; Bigger Bonuses; Climbing the Corporate Ladder; Starting their own business; Wealth Creation, etc. The small number of superstars are at the far-right end of the curve. We can think of well-known people: Elon Musk, Bill Gates, and Jeff Bezos. These men believe a 40-hour work week is your warm-up!
HINT: If you own stock in a company, you want as large a percentage of these types your company can find! Bring em by the busloads! Just do not take them to Martha Vineyard!
GROUP II- LEFT SIDE – TENDS TO HAVE A SEVERE ALLERGY TO WORK!
This group of employees equates a hard day’s work with delivering the bare minimum efforts. WARNING: Do not stand in the way when their shift ends. We ALL have some family members in this group. I’m tempted to name them! Easy way to identify them; they REPEATEDLY request you cash app them YOUR HARD EARNED MONEY! You have about a ten percent chance of ever seeing that money again. Cap App was developed for this group!
CONCLUSION – SUCK SLIGHTLY LESS THAN EVERYONE ELSE!
As the U.S. moved from manufacturing to a service economy, I watched customer care deteriorate. Too many people unsuited for customer service fell into these roles. For those who are quietly quitting if you need the job, SUCK LESS THAN YOUR PEERS!
Over the past four weeks, I had several contractors preparing my house for sale. Three, I rate a 100% SUCK. And the fourth sucked slightly less. He is the only one I have continued using. We live in a world where the bar is so unbelievably low that quiet quitting does not equate to losing your job. But you need to suck less than everyone else.
Shout out to Costco and Chick-fil-A. Companies that still care about customer satisfaction. Companies who give a dang about their customers. One of the reasons I own Costco stock!
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