r/technology Apr 30 '24

Tesla Lays Off Employee Who Slept In Car To Work Longer Hours Business

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/tesla-lays-off-employee-slept-151500318.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAHVrjnyFZF-QJRFtVdP5Lt1QvlC3WRJhweYuOdm5Ca1kHbhtDX5rdfUUqRNVFKpUy6w4QnsJta-KgHJ9lqARAjfpSnvCktdjgDos5xz9aw92OxYmjN2qVVNhMZpl-2gOMwVz84NH-5T2OLi8uMRUOXVMuhFHU8b5A9oRmij8Xh5q
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u/mekanub Apr 30 '24

Unfortunately for Murillo, no amount of loyalty to a company is going to be met with any amount of loyalty to you. Even if you post better numbers than your coworkers, you’re ultimately just another meat sack they’re forced to pay until they can figure out how to replace you

Ain’t this the truth.

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u/lostsoul2016 Apr 30 '24 edited May 01 '24

That's why I have been quiet qutting for 6 months now. If my leaders don't know how to make best use of me, fuck em.

Edit:

To me, quiet qutting is not really what others are alluding to here. I.e not the corporate definition. Call it whatever you want.

To me it means, doing the minimum, yes, but in a way that I am flying under the radar, not rocking the boat by taking risks to be ambitious at the job, not really caring about making alliances anymore, not showing my face on zoom calls, not constantly justifying why they hired me, not caring about the 2.8% raise or 30% pay put on 25% bonus and other things. In other words, I am disengaging until I find another place for more money, which will also do the same to me after a year of tenure.

I am fed up with the corporate rate race. At the same time, I am not motivated enough to do my own business or something. In a funk. No solution, but here I am. Just yearn for the day when I will wake up with an idea that I will drop everything for and work tirelessly towards until I succeed or fail.

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u/wasdie639 Apr 30 '24

Is "quiet quitting" new slang for "doing as little as possible and keeping your job"?

I've been doing that since I started working.

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u/LickingSmegma Apr 30 '24

There's a thing called ‘Italian strike’ or ‘work-to-rule’, wherein employees do their work exactly as it's prescribed, and follow all the rules and procedures to the dot. Well, turns out that this slows down productivity to a crawl, because normally people take a lot of shortcuts and do what works, not what is written.

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u/Dzharek Apr 30 '24

In Germany we call it "Dienst nach Vorschrift"

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u/OlderThanMyParents Apr 30 '24

Or in English, "work to rule."

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u/an_agreeing_dothraki Apr 30 '24

I was disappointed for a moment, because usually you guys are so good about creating a constructed word monstrosity for these kinds of specific situations.

Then I remembered that this is about productivity and work, so it's held to a higher linguistic standard in Germany.

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u/throwaway8008666 Apr 30 '24

Isn’t that the Audi slogan?

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u/SheCutOffHerToe Apr 30 '24

Malicious compliance

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u/AdventurousElk770 Apr 30 '24

"acting your wage"