All workers are trapped in a cycle of 10-hr workdays and lost wekends today. Job security now demands constant exhaustion because the competition is relentless. Workers are pushed to the brink just to afford basic survival - housing, food, and bills. This isn't the job market of a generation ago; today, we aren't just competing with a global labor pool, we are competing with AI that operates in minutes. The human cost of this is brutal... Waking up exhausted after hrs of sleep has become the new normal because devices have taken over our lives. We built this hi tech cage ourselves, and with AI poised to take over countless more human jobs the future looks incredibly grim. Oh, well.
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Hi @ca - this applies to some folks, many others (Finance, IT, etc.) dont have an option of saying no. All deadline based works are like this, Finance closes books and there are distinct deadlines - IT is deploying things when there are no users in the systems, that's holidays and weekends. Management is abusing this dynamics and making people work.
@cw Good for you! Please consider anonymously reporting to CMS the use of AI to “change star rating scores.” Thanks!
May you have great success with your new company!
I recently left because I saw that AI was changing data to improve stars scores. I want no part of that. I told the manager and was told I did not know what I was talking about. I found a job through an agency that pays more.
@cf Yeah, just do the bare minimum. Because it is obvious to everyone they no longer sincerely genuinely care about their staff.
I have always my entire life had a good work ethic. And still plan to. But there are times when a return message needs to be sent back to the sender.
So, “quiet quitting” does not speak to your work ethic but rather to you ability to see the message being conveyed by leadership to you and your ability to send the correct return message back that “we have had enough and not going to be a abused any longer. We will now do the bare minimum but no more than that.”
The payoff for working that hard isn't really there anyway. Last year no raises and they arbitrarily reduced the AIP multiplier. If that's not a strong signal not to go the extra mile, I don't know what is.
Only to the extent that you refuse to say "no". I'm not putting in 10 or 9 hour days and you can bet your last nickel that I'm not working any weekends.