A lot of the posts – particularly about low wage workplaces or workplaces that deny entitlements or engage in unfair HR practices are so invalid.
However it is actually so shocking to me how many people want high paying remote work jobs where they have to do very little. Even with the most perfect planning work ebbs and flows – the attitude of I work my scheduled hours and not a minute more – yet also slacking off while working is bizarre to me. I think when the work is slower definitely take the downtime while it’s there and workplaces should encourage that, but when people with the attitude of quiet quitting act like they’re persecuted bc they need to work an extra hour here and there during a busy period, or go into an office once a week – it feels a little hypocritical.It would suck to work in a workplace where people refuse to come to the office ever, it means 40 hours of your week are without significant in person social interaction, maybe that doesn’t impact everyone but idk.
I think in any job you are trading a value add for money, people oversimplify to say it’s just trading their time for money, but if you do nothing of value with that time it’s no value proposition. I think thinking should be reframed around ass the value you are paid for and as you learn how to get more efficient and add more value you get paid more, idk if that’s realistic.
This is mainly in relation to around corporate/office work.