https://www.foxbusiness.com/lifestyle/career-trend-act-wage-disgruntled-workers-brings-job-warnings-experts
Now, "act your wage" is the latest message many American workers are sending their bosses as a way to express their career concerns and pushback against burnout.
Act your wage, not your shoe size.
"I was a top performer in my group, a peer I worked with did everything she could to do the least amount of work, backstabbed & slandered. Guess who resigned, me."
This is 100% true. When I was a manager I was told (in much more corp-speak terms) if your goal is 10 widgets and you do 12, you might get a bonus this year. But if you do 12 again next year, you'll only make "Meets". It is rigged for you to burn yourself out for less reward.
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Why do we always need catch phrases for everything these days. Quiet quitting, act your wage. Easy to communicate via social media and feel like the IN crowd I guess. Your job stinks, deal with it. Ever cleaned out sewer lines for a living. You sit at home or an office working at a computer. No chance for someone to get hurt or die at what you do like a pilot, nurse, bus driver or doctor.
I've been doing more than my wage for many years. Shart doesn't give an S, I'll still get downsized eventually. People that believe working hard here or having great production will save you are misguided at best. Hudson Yards has no idea what you do, or how well you do it, nor do they care. Why should they? You'll be gone soon anyway.
I was a top performer in my group, a peer I worked with did everything he could to do the least amount of work. Guess who got canned, me.
Acting your wage just means doing what you're paid to do. Period.
No shame in that.
We shouldn't work like dogs as if we own the company or are the CEO because we AREN'T.
The day Charlie wants to pay me more or give me some if his over-the-top bonus $$$, I'll act THAT wage.
You're in for a rude awakening. You're going to get downsized with the rest of us, presuming you work in the US. Mindlessly following ridiculously inefficient 20th century ideas of work doesn't make you any more employable at Sharts WF. They don't care what we are capable of or the value we bring. They want us all gone. Execs and a very few others will survive in Hudson Yards, everything else will be outsourced, contract, automated, spun off or simple shut down. You'll get it, eventually.
I do more than I’m tasked with but less than I’m capable of. It’s my work/life balance formula that has netted me exceeds ratings year after year and bonuses that routinely end up spilling to stock options in addition to cash.
Go to the office? You betcha! Working with so many “act your wage” and RTO whiners has been an extremely lucrative career path!
Here’s the thing. Anything “above and beyond” is a choice. It’s been my experience that putting more into my work at Wells Fargo (15 years here) than what I’m monetarily compensated for, has seldom lead to financial gains. The truth is if you do your job well, inevitably you’ll be rewarded with more work (often your less efficient peers). Act your wage. Anything more is akin to wage theft.
@gfk+1qmJ7h1W We see you spamming upvotes on this deranged nonsense 😂
"To climb the ladder you dress for the job you want and step up and do more than asked"
Wow, This is straight from the career coaching I received when I was laid off in 2000. Not really true as execs look like sh-t nowadays.
Haven’t you heard? Everyone expects to be given everything on a silver platter for no reason to include excess pay. And anything they currently have received, regardless of how it compares to positions outside of Wells, is not commensurate with what they feel they should be paid.
Sounds like these jagoffs who, at the moment RTO was defined, started crying about “am I getting a stipend for clothes?”, “who’s paying my gas?”, “are they giving free lunch?”. We’re a company full of pretentious ufcks and it will be a great reckoning when the cuts come and they drag these attitudes with them to outside interviews and get the rude awakening they’ve had coming for years now.
Really hard to be motivated in a non hub.
if this means not pulling your weight, great way to get fired. To climb the ladder you dress for the job you want and step up and do more than asked.
Been acting my wage since RTO and I will never go back to prioritizing work.
Starting tomorrow I'll strut like I am worth a million dollars. Thanks for the reminder.
How about “act the wage you want”? If you do this you’ll get the pay you want one day!