Thread regarding ExxonMobil Corp. layoffs

Doing your job is the new quitting?

This just in: apparently those of us who perform our jobs within the description, and during the designated working time for the compensation previously agreed upon, are all “quitters” now.

Let’s run this in reverse: I walk into the office the morning before payroll is processed, and I tell my manager that I would like an additional $1000 for the same amount of work, and, if he doesn’t do so right away, he’s “quietly firing” me, in addition to being a bad boss.

If this comes across as absurd, that’s because it is. Yet, this is exactly the same logic being applied by the c-suite and most of the business press to designate people who set reasonable boundaries around work as “quitters”.

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@1gcu Typical dip-sh!t management type.

If you want it done, put it in the job description and pay me for it.

I’m not asking you to add money to my check for nothing, so don’t ask me to do more without paying for it. This is what’s commonly known as a “business relationship”, and it’s the basis of modern capitalism.

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Post ID: @2lvh+1iuTOAwZ

"setting boundaries"

That is why we need 5% NSI. It helps to weed out the lazy b-ms that are not willing to go above and beyond.....

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Post ID: @1gcu+1iuTOAwZ

‘Quiet quitting’ puts a negative spin on something that is positive, and all other generations call setting boundaries or work-life balance. Please don’t think you are clever or discovered something new.

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Post ID: @1tab+1iuTOAwZ

Corporate America in general and EM in particular, are focused on getting as much as possible from each person for the least amount of money possible.

Those that have a problem with employees refusing to give more & more for nothing in return, make me chuckle. It must be hard when you can no longer make tons of money off the backs of your workers.

I hope the days of blind loyalty to a corporation are over. If you ever doubted it, the last few years have shown exactly how little EM values it’s supposed “greatest asset”.

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Post ID: @yru+1iuTOAwZ

Let’s not forget that “Good” is, and always has been, the assessment category you can expect for just doing your base job at this company. It’s always been about “what have you done for me lately?”

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Post ID: @sif+1iuTOAwZ

Quiet quitting and the great resignation are just corporate propaganda. Execs ran into the first even mildly tight job market for the first time since the 2008 recession, so they're flipping out about the miniscule amount of power that has given to employees.

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