Everything You Need to Know About Quiet Quitting

Join us as our host, George Kamel, talks with Kacy Maxwell, the executive director of marketing for EntreLeadership. Kacy shares his thoughts on quit quitting and how to maintain accountability with your team members so they don’t become quiet quitters. Later, George chats with Ken Coleman. Ken is a Ramsey Personality, the #1 national bestselling author of From Paycheck to Purpose, and the host of The Ken Coleman Show. He dives into what quiet quitting is, why people are doing it, and what leaders like you can do to prevent it.

You’ll learn:
• What quiet quitters really think
• How quiet quitting isn’t new
• Why you shouldn’t act your wage
• What quiet quitters really want

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[justlistenfornow]

Business leaders expect employees to work more and more and more, but do not adjust compensation.

[keneticchannel]

- If you have someone not fulfilling their previously agreed-upon obligations, that should translate to some communication to determine the problem. If someone simply isn't keeping up their end of the agreement, they can be let go without much controversy.
- HOWEVER, you can't claim someone is doing "the bare minimum" simply because they're not doing **more** than their job description for the agreed-upon compensation.

If you want them to go "above and beyond, " the compensation has to match the expectation. If you do that, you won't have an issue with engagement.

[karlstrauss]

The problem with corporations is that they demand the experience of a 50 year old, the drive and performance of a 30 year old and the salary expectations of a 16 year old. And then they wonder why everyone is “quiet quitting”.

[MrMZaccone]

My best friend's father started working at a grocery store at 17. He married, owned a home, and raised three kids on that job because back then, you could do that. He worked there until his 50s when his COMPANY FUNDED PENSION allowed him to retire comfortably. Try that today. It doesn't exist. The American worker has a message for corporations. It's the same message portrayed in the movie Goodfellas. "Business bad? FUCK YOU, PAY ME! Oh, you had a fire? FUCK YOU, PAY ME! Place got hit by lighting, huh? FUCK YOU, PAY ME!"
The bottom line is, WORKERS CONTROL THE MEANS OF PRODUCTION! You want me to work for you? You want 40 hours of my blood, sweat, and tears? FUCK YOU, PAY ME!

[GrannyDryden]

It's kind of exciting watching a video about Quiet Quitting, while i'm at work, Quiet Quitting.

[MrWhiterunGuard]

Technically I quiet quit for 5 years now. A lot of it has to do with my past performance reviews which just coming out of college was amazing. I no longer do more than 35-40 hours a week. I half ass train people before marking them off into the mainline. I don't pass long any tips that allow me to survive in this field for 15 years. I also leave early everyday, I don't come late but I will. make sure to clock in at exactly 8am. While at work I spend most of my day watching youtube and gossip about people. Hopefully they let me do this for another 5 years then I can retire at 45. The only reason I choose not to leave is because the morning briefings allow me to know where I can best invest my savings.

[eatmyblocks-blockchaindeve]

Average rent is 2000$ a month. 1100$ a week used to be considered decent pay. I just barely can pay my bills monthly. I'm 31. And you expect the best of me. Get out of here.. you want my best double my pay.

You want people to stop quiet quitting; one of two things is going to have to happen. 1. Dramatic salary increases, newrly 100% or 2. A dramatic decrease in the cost of living, back to 2005ish levels. Otherwise I promise you this wont stop and pace is only going to increase.

[coffeeisdelicious]

I am rather disappointed by the take in the video here. It's just the usual, "lol they're so lazy how dare they, they're just sad snowflakes in every way" hot take that so many have.


So many jobs in America don't have reasonable pay for their areas. If you're not hitting the core parts of Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs because SO MANY jobs simply don't pay anywhere close to what they should be, you're not going to care about work.

If you're hungry, or wondering if you'll make rent since you had to unexpectedly go to urgent care and the resulting bill was too pricey since health insurance in the US is a joke, you simply aren't going to have the bandwidth to care about work. And the entire, "oh just leave" line just... I expected better from you guys. They're stuck between a rock and a hard place: if they just leave asap, their problems, and their hopelessness, only gets worse. Usually if they look around around jobs in their area, they all pay about the same. And I'm not talking McDonalds, I'm talking just about every entry level position. Even tech support.

There's more to being a good leader than simply "motivating" people. It's about saying, "wow, this person is busting their ass here, let me fight to get them a raise." Create a culture in your company where people who try actually get raises and rise up thru the ranks of your company. Where the benefits aren't asinine - where people get decent health care and have a few weeks of paid-time off. A good leader, and a good company for that matter, has the ability to give people hope that they won't just be spinning their wheels and getting no more money or role recognition than the guy who comes in late and does nothing at all.

THAT is why there's all this quiet quitting. It's not "lol senpai notice me pls" and the lack of recognition is causing this. It's about how so many managers don't fight for the employees who try harder.

Yes, obviously some people are lazy. Yes, some places are simply the odd business out and a person can leave and get paid $10-$15k more ezpz. But there's also A LOT of crummy businesses and managers out there that are trying to put more money in their own pocket by screwing their employees.

[ProleDaddy]

Eat the rich. Seize the means. Workers produce ALL. Workers need to take ALL.

[gullijons]

People that think quiet quitting started with covid really need to find the movie "Office Space" and watch that, in particular Peter's discussions with the Bobs. That showed the reality of things in 1999. You can even go way further back than that and read Dilbert, Wally has the hallmarks of the quiet quitter that has gone even further.

[parkerj]

I know exactly what this is like. Let me tell you about my job at Innotek and how I’ve managed this toxicity. So, If I work my butt off at this company and they ship out a few extra units I don’t see another dime (like many of us). So where’s the motivation? See, the thing about it is that I have 8 bosses so when I make a mistake I have 8 different people coming by to tell me about it. That is the only real motivation is not to be hassled, that and the fear of losing my job! And you know, that’ll only make someone work just hard enough not to get fired.

So, here’s been my version of quiet quitting

I generally come in at least 15 minutes late and I use the side door so my boss Lumberg doesn’t see me, and after that I just sorta space out for about an hour. I pretty much just stare at my desk, but it looks like I’m working. And I probably do that for another hour after lunch too. I’d say in a given week I only do about 15 minutes of real actual work. So, you see it’s not that I’m lazy, it’s that I just don’t care. Now let me tell you about them TPS reports…

[aribbonatatime]

Everyone goes above and beyond until they see what they effort gives them. If the reward was worth the effort then maybe people would continue to go above but when it's your fifth job and you put in a certain amount of effort above what is expected you are rewarded with a thank you note or a company party or even a few extra dollars. You begin to ask yourself if it's worth your time to keep going above and beyond if this is the kind of rewards you can expect. The answer, for 99% of employees is absolutely not. Maybe, if you're trying to own the company one day you would kill yourself for little reward in hopes of one day owning the whole enchilada but for everyone else they are just there so they don't starve so they want to be overly compensated for overly working and that's just not happening for most people hence the Quiet quitting. I actually find it funny that the employers are so concerned about this. Do they actually think anyone wants to work for them? That's just something they put on their resume to make you feel special. If they where honest they would say they don't want to be hired at your company but at the same time they want to make money to pay their rent so you where the first one that called back and so I need to take the job.

[nathananderson]

This is one of the channels that gave me the courage to start my YouTube channel 8 months ago about self development. Now I have 1, 020 subs and > 800 hours of watch time. I know it’s not comparable with others but I’m still proud I started because I’ve been learning so many lessons that I could haven’t learned without getting started in the 1st place.

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[WaveGazer]

If you want your workers to do more than what you agreed upon when you hired them, you pay them more. It's that simple. They are not lazy...you're just entitled cheapskates who think you should be able to get extra work from your employees for free.

[cardeajackson]

Just pay your workers more its that simple, if you really care about your workers more than profits than youll just pay them more money period. Dont sit up and say how can i get my workers to work harder without paying them. If people are paid more their more likely to spend more which betters the economy by preventing recession, but when companies hoard all their wealth and dont spend back into the economy then that creates a problem like what we have today.

[JustJeff]

I'm sorry, rarely anyone is looking at 500k houses, let alone 200k houses and complaining about not getting paid enough for that.

Simple homes, 3-4 bedrooms that were way more affordable are at high ball prices right now. Simply getting a house in a good neighborhood is close to impossible at the rates that people are getting paid compared to the market

[Robespierres_Ghost]

I've been going above and beyond for years. Working crazy hours. Working free OT as a salaried employee every week. Not taking a day off for 14 months. Letting my PTO max out and still not using any of it. Doing my job and my bosses job for three months after he transferred to another department. For exactly zero benefit. Literally not even a thank you. I'm done. My new main directive is to do the bare minimum. The company treats me and im sure plenty of other employees like robot slaves.

[JT-wcme]

I didn't quiet quit. I worked my arse off and it didn't get rewarded at all. Doing extra was never worth it. I did quit to get raises and it worked. Getting a new job, was better than working harder at the current job. Mostly the service industry has lost employees. Look at that industry since 1965. Ppl got 25 cent raises annually. That stopped with higher minimum wages. When I started my bosses made $29 as a manager, per hour. By the time I was a boss, the work had doubled and the wage was something like $18/hr. Theres no sense in it. Go get a student loan and get out of any industry that doesn't pay you enough to retire on. Thats it. Everyone go to school and no one cook hamburgers. Im sure they will build robots to take the job eventually

[RiverRebel]

It honestly irked me when he said that you can't expect to be 22, making what a 22 year old should and expect to live in a million dollar home with big TVs.... like, dude, I'm 27 with a degree working 40 hours with hourly pay plus slight commissions, and I'm very frugal and save as much as I can... I still can't afford a basic 1 bed 1 bath apartment... I don't want fancy, I want independence and at least some comfort of not living paycheck to paycheck. I just want at least a somewhat comfortable basic life, not luxury.

[proudmanchild]

The boss still doesnt know im doing this. I take long bathroom breaks and even go wash my Hellcat and get ice coffie. The gen x and boomer workers pick up my slack when i get back and i even get credited.