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How to 'act your wage,' according to 2 millennials who did it: 'If a company is paying you, let's say minimum wage, you're gonna put in minimum effort'​

Story by insider@insider.com (Juliana Kaplan) • Yesterday 10:43 AM

  • Workers are quiet quitting and acting their wage by doing their jobs as written — and nothing more.
  • Two workers who have quiet quit and acted their wage said it's about setting boundaries.
  • It's also crucial to exert control where you can at work, and make it work for you.
A boss tries to give her employee, Veronica, a stack of papers to work on overnight.

"Respectfully, Susan, I'd rather spend time with my family," Veronica replies. Then, she declines a 6:30 pm Zoom meeting; it's outside of her working hours.

Veronica and Susan aren't real. They're characters played by 30-year-old content creator Sarai Soto, whose TikToks on quiet quitting, acting your wage, and asserting boundaries at work have racked up millions of likes and views.

"People just really feel seen, they feel heard, they feel like someone's standing up for them," Soto told Insider. "I can't tell you how many messages I receive of people being like, okay, I know your content is funny and provides this comedic relief, but I'm telling you, although it's exaggerated, I've been through those exact same scenarios."

 
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Workers are quiet quitting and acting their wage by doing their jobs as written — and nothing more.
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That was always my problem. I have a good work ethic. I felt I was 'part of the team' and would go the extra mile.

Never got recognized for the effort and caring I put into whatever company I worked for and I worked for a lot of them.

Jack of all trades, master of none?

Come to realize decades later that these 'companies' could care less about you. You're a widget. Someone easily replaced.
 
Nothing new in this. Back in the Carternomics era, where minimum-wage was basically all that was out there...we had a saying. Minimum wage for minimum work.

Of course, that probably came from disgruntled Russians under the USSR: "We pretend to work and they pretend to pay us."

It destroys the work ethic. I know it did, in many ways, with me.

But that is what comes of Financializiation, Globalism, and other money-pfukkery. It's human nature at work.

The control freaks never learn a basic truth: It's far easier to wreck a working system than it is to build a better working system. But they gotta learn, and the learning experience will be painful for all of us.
 
If everybody worked on commission in a competitive market there would be more tasks completed and better service with less belly aching.
 
nickndfl said:
If everybody worked on commission in a competitive market there would be more tasks completed and better service with less belly aching.
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But that's not the POINT. The POINT is to empower the unions and PAC bagmen for the Party of Control Freaks.

And most of the lifers in that party, couldn't hold a real job - even at minimum wage.
 
I remember the days of quiet working when folks didn't spend half the workday browsing social media, personal emails/texts or news.
 
Here's a story you don't hear everyday.

gcaptain.com

Seafarers Seize Cargo Ship Over Unpaid Wages

Four seafarers have seized a cargo ship in Senegal amid a dispute with the shipowner over unpaid wages. The seafarers are being backed by the International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF)...
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Studebaker Corporation closed their American manufacturing plant in South Bend, in December 1964.

They did NOT go bankrupt. They were not forced into it. It was a strategic retrenching (very unwise, as it turned out) but the impetus was, the United Auto Workers contract had expired on that date, and discussions were at loggerheads.

Studebaker, which had lost money for 20 of the previous 22 years, was diversifying out of automobiles. The plant was to be left sitting empty...later, the Avanti Motor Company was formed and used a corner of it, but that wasn't clear or known then.

So. All the wealth was provided by the UAW members who were being exploited by Studebaker, hey? Why didn't THEY...JUST KEEP IT RUNNING?

Studebaker managers and owners, kept it running. At a loss, but they kept it running. The reason FOR that loss, were generous union contracts postwar, which first, cut into the company's budgets for design and development; and then, into marketing. Compliance with government regulations was about to become a factor.

The "generous contract" argument had some merit. Their much-smaller Canadian plant was kept operating, and WITHOUT economies of scale (production run of about 22,000 cars a year) Studebaker's automotive division began making money. Not much, but it was profitable. IT was closed with the passage of the National Highway Safety Act in 1966 - which launched the regulatory monolith and put small operators at a huge disadvantage.

So...again...with a hot car like the Avanti being produced, and a fine granny-mobile like the Lark set up on the line...and since it's the WORKERS who put all the value into a product...why did the workers of South Bend not just keep on making cars?
 

‘Quiet quit’ product of disengaged supply chain workforce​

Gartner execs relate employee turnover up 33% from before pandemic​

John Kingston
Tuesday, May 09, 2023

ORLANDO, Fla. — Employment numbers in the supply chain post-pandemic are revealing a tremendous amount of turnover and lack of employee engagement, according to the keynote speaker at this year’s Gartner Supply Chain Symposium.

Caroline Chumakov, a director and analyst at Gartner, spoke to a packed opening session Monday of a meeting with attendance soaring past 3,200 and asked the crowd: “Will we leave a supply chain that lights up careers, feeds global economics and sustains our planet?”

More:

www.freightwaves.com

‘Quiet quit’ product of disengaged supply chain workforce

Supply chain employees are “checked out, challenged and choosing to ‘quiet quit,’” according to Gartner’s Caroline Chumakov.
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Arestaurant chain in California enlisted a fake priest to take confession from workers, with the supposed father urging them to "get the sins out" by telling him if they'd been late for work or had stolen from their employer, according to the U.S. Department of Labor.

The restaurant owner, Che Garibaldi, operates two Taqueria Garibaldi restaurants in Sacramento and one in Roseville, according to a statement from the Labor Department. Attorneys for the restaurant company didn't immediately respond to a request for comment.

The alleged priest also asked workers if they harbored "bad intentions" toward their employer or if they'd done anything to harm the company, said the agency, which called it one of the "most shameless" scams that labor regulator had ever seen. The Diocese of Sacramento also investigated the issue and said it "found no evidence of connection" between the alleged priest and its jurisdiction, according to the Catholic News Agency.

 
Hey, he does some reading!

James Michener, in his epic Texas, had Santa Anna desiring a fine nubile young maiden of the region one weekend. So he told his aide-de-camp to find a man who looked like a priest.

As Michener told it, the aide found a priest - and Santa Anna blew up. "Find me someone who LOOKS like a priest, you filth!" he screamed.

So the aide found a sergeant and dressed him in clerical garb - taken from the real priest. Thus, with the fake priest, Gen. Santa Anna went to the father of the girl, and ordered that he submit his daughter in marriage.

Of course the father was outraged, but there were the guns; and here was a priest. At least it was not sinful, and the girl would be married well.

So the fake marriage went off, and the wedding night, and the girl was arrested next morning and deposed to a whorehouse.

It's always rewarding when we find business owners are literate.
 

This is why US employees have been quiet quitting​

American employees are likely doing the bare minimum at work because they feel as if they’ve lost control over their lives.

The practice known as “quiet quitting” has picked up steam in the U.S. following the Covid pandemic. At least half of the 170-million-strong American workforce are quiet quitters, according to a 2023 Gallup poll.

Now, researchers say they’ve traced the root of recent quiet quitting to a feeling of uncertainty. Uncertainty about politics, the economy, health, and the climate crisis can make people feel as if they’ve lost control, which they believe could explain the phenomenon’s resurgence.

More:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/car...n-quiet-quitting/ar-AA1L3eEY?ocid=socialshare
 
It's a response for the complete contempt the Credentialed Classes ("university" degrees, etc) are now showing for their workers.

These people show up in the system, YOUNG. Many have little or no experience actually working. AND...with revisionist history taught by Leftist school-teachers, they learned of the Robber Barons.

They learned the wrong lesson - they seem to have come to think that that was the way they SHOULD run businesses, to make money. AND...since the history they learned was slanted, often untrue - the Robber Barons weren't horrible; people moved across the nation, by horse or on foot, to work in a Ford plant in Dearborn - since it was untrue, what we're moving into is something WORSE than what the US saw 120 years ago.

When you are expected to work long hours; put in free time organizing your work, or monitoring work activities, such as communications, from home; when you can be fired by email or text while still AT work, ZERO advance notice...and this done by the estrogen-enhanced Grrl-Bosses who did so well with Target, Budweiser, and now Cracker Barrel (and many others)...it just completely saps motivation.

We're becoming a de-facto Fascist system - government, or at least quasi-government, control of the means to produce, while it remains ostensibly private. The Soviet people had a saying: They pretend to pay us, and we pretend to work. We're there, now.
 
searcher said:
Uncertainty about politics, the economy, health, and the climate crisis can make people feel as if they’ve lost control, which they believe could explain the phenomenon’s resurgence.
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That's the power of propaganda.

All four of those items are and have been heavily propagandized in order to push narratives that those in power wish for us to believe.
....and many do.
 
What, you think it's untrue?

I beg to differ. They wage propaganda war, but this is an actual assault on the employed class.

Money IS being debased. Hours ARE longer. There is essentially NO consideration to employees, in terms of honest communication, consideration of legitimate needs, such as rest, or a short advance in notifying of termination. Workers ARE now routinely expected to train their H1-B replacements - or help pack up to Chy-Nuh.

This is what happens when you put elitists, autistics, and narcissists in charge. And they are in charge.
 
Joe King said:
That's the power of propaganda.

All four of those items are and have been heavily propagandized in order to push narratives that those in power wish for us to believe.
....and many do.
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Could not agree more.
Politics are unchanged for the past human history
Same with economy. Watch Life With Father
Covid was not a problem. The overblown “response” was
Crisis Climate? Same as covid

BUT, if people don’t fret and push on with the good life, things work out. Doesn’t mean not to fight the good fight, but the world isn’t ending, unless you are in Somalia.
 
Gee Whiz Batman, I was ahead of the curve, I had some jobs the just seemed designed to kill motivation...
 
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Gee Whiz Batman, I was ahead of the curve, I had some jobs the just seemed designed to kill motivation...
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That's why they pay someone else to do it.

If it were motivating and fun and a pleasure to do, they'd do it themselves.
 
Casey Jones said:
What, you think it's untrue?

I beg to differ. They wage propaganda war, but this is an actual assault on the employed class.

Money IS being debased. Hours ARE longer. There is essentially NO consideration to employees, in terms of honest communication, consideration of legitimate needs, such as rest, or a short advance in notifying of termination. Workers ARE now routinely expected to train their H1-B replacements - or help pack up to Chy-Nuh.

This is what happens when you put elitists, autistics, and narcissists in charge. And they are in charge.
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That's what I was getting at. Politics, economy, health and climate have all been lied about.
 

‘Quiet cracking’ at work is less visible than ‘quiet quitting,’ but it’s ‘just as dangerous,’ report finds​

  • “Quiet cracking” refers to the idea of persistent unhappiness in the workplace, leading to disengagement, poor performance and a desire to quit, according to a new report.
  • However, workers feel less encouraged to switch jobs as companies slow down hiring.
  • Here’s what frustrated employees should consider, according to experts.
Before employees engage in “quiet quitting,” first come signs of “quiet cracking.”

“Quiet quitting” refers to the idea of an employee doing the bare minimum at work, according to ResumeBuilder.

Meanwhile, “quiet cracking” is a “persistent feeling of workplace unhappiness that leads to disengagement, poor performance, and an increased desire to quit,” according to a new report from cloud learning platform TalentLMS, which coined the term. While they are both different responses to burnout and stress, quiet cracking could lead to quiet quitting in some cases, experts say.

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^^^^^^^

That is what happened to the USSR and Eastern Bloc nations.

They couldn't design anything that worked properly; and when they were GIVEN, or STOLE, existing designs - the Soviets bought the obsolete the Fiat 124 car design, and all tooling; the Yugoslavians sold the Fiat 127 designs/tooling; and the Communist Poles sold the Fiat 126 design.

All three sold well in Europe and England by Fiat; but as Russian/Polish/Yugoslav goods, only sold behind the Iron Curtain. Once the USSR disbanded, these were quickly replaced by VW or by Japanese models.

This is what the (Communist) Globalists do not understand. People are not Useless Eaters; people PRODUCE GOODS that GENERATE WEALTH. Wealth doesn't come from money-changing; it IS PRODUCTION. Money only REPRESENTS wealth, and not perfectly.

Without motivated people, there will not be wealth generated - only shoddy goods made as busywork. If no nation is free to manufacture worthwhile tools, products, goods...there will be no wealth.
 
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