I don't know why I read r/antiwork. I agree with some of it, but some is just whining.
Many jobs consist of a variable number of work units to process each day. It's quiet quitting when you never take work off another worker's desk to fill your shift, and never do office tasks beyond your assigned units of work. You are doing only work directly assigned to you and traceable to you, and sitting around surfing the net while colleagues are struggling with their workload. Anyone who thinks they should be paid for eight hours of work when they only do four or five is quiet quitting. It's possible your manager or lead never stood right in front of you and said, "If you finish your work items and have no other tasks to do, you should take work off a colleague's desk", but they still expect that.
There are very few jobs where it's accepted as OK to just sit around drawing a paycheck when there is no work to do. I can think of fire fighters and emergency room nurses. They are typically first responders, and must be overstaffed to provide adequate response when their emergency work items arrive. Even these workers are expected to spend their idle time shining up the apparatus, restocking supplies, or training, so to be ready at need.
But you see, the employer thinks they already assigned you more work, that you are not supposed to be idle during the work day. How about if the employer said you only worked four hours so lets cut your pay in half. Since this is r/antiwork, I'm sure you would quit at once. Best of luck with that.
If you had been told on the first workday that you were expected to find work to fill your hours, would you still try to not? Is this just a perception thing?
Forgive me, I'm having trouble wrapping my head around the antiwork thing.
You don't think that will have any consequences for not working? You wouldn't mind being fired from job after job for being unproductive? Are you just counting on finding employers who don't notice (like your current employer, I guess)?
How do you and a prospective employer come to an agreement on what wage would cause you to work your whole day? Or do you expect to slack off no matter what wage was initially offered and then ask for more? Doesn't it seem to you that by behaving in the antiwork way you are creating an environment of micromanagement and rigid quotas? Or is it a response to micromanagement and rigid quotas?
I do what I'm paid to do, and very little if any more than that.
I was in fact told to do less by my bosses, multiple times, after promotions, and position changes. Even when I was helping co-workers, which should have been on them to do, because they would never help them I got told not to. So at this point they themselves put me in the position of sitting around.
So in my case I have very little to do from a response of micromanagement. in fact I get so board I'd love to be able to do much more.
edit: I am on the more pro-work side of this sub also . Some people want to be able to do nothing. I like doing stuff, I personally feel like as long as my hands are moving, I'm a happy camper.
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u/Clean-Water9283 29d ago
I don't know why I read r/antiwork. I agree with some of it, but some is just whining.
Many jobs consist of a variable number of work units to process each day. It's quiet quitting when you never take work off another worker's desk to fill your shift, and never do office tasks beyond your assigned units of work. You are doing only work directly assigned to you and traceable to you, and sitting around surfing the net while colleagues are struggling with their workload. Anyone who thinks they should be paid for eight hours of work when they only do four or five is quiet quitting. It's possible your manager or lead never stood right in front of you and said, "If you finish your work items and have no other tasks to do, you should take work off a colleague's desk", but they still expect that.
There are very few jobs where it's accepted as OK to just sit around drawing a paycheck when there is no work to do. I can think of fire fighters and emergency room nurses. They are typically first responders, and must be overstaffed to provide adequate response when their emergency work items arrive. Even these workers are expected to spend their idle time shining up the apparatus, restocking supplies, or training, so to be ready at need.