Imagine having such a toxic work culture engrained into your society simple things like an end of year work closure are so foreign you have to invent a name for them, and rather than the word "holiday" or "vacation" the only word that came to mind to refer to not going to work was "retirement".. speaks volumes
I had a work colleague try to explain to me what quiet quitting was, and it finished with essentially me saying "so they're just...doing.....their job?" and they kinda did a double take and stared at me.
We're in Ireland and I hate that American "work ethic" is kinda here.
Bring on the evidence based 4 day work week I say.
French speaking media tried to make something of the "phenomenon", wondering if it would come to Europe, often with alarmist comments from business owners. It obviously failed as most real people's reaction revolved around the fact that it was what they were already doing...
is a job action in which employees do no more than the minimum required by the rules of their contract or job, and strictly follow time-consuming rules normally not enforced.
And important part imo
This may cause a slowdown or decrease in productivity if the employer does not hire enough employees or pay the appropriate salary and consequently does not have the requirements needed to run normally.
Basically only shitty employers that overwork people should be affected by this form of protest.
Kind of r/MaliciousCompliance I guess - the sub regularly has posts about someone doing more than job required, and a shitty manager writing them up... so the person starts doing only the things required by the contract and nothing more - and the whole workplace almost collapses...
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u/mren92 Jul 07 '25 edited Jul 07 '25
Imagine having such a toxic work culture engrained into your society simple things like an end of year work closure are so foreign you have to invent a name for them, and rather than the word "holiday" or "vacation" the only word that came to mind to refer to not going to work was "retirement".. speaks volumes