'Quiet quitting' was happening in China before the rest of the world caught on
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- Опубліковано 9 жов 2022
- You may have heard about "quiet quitting" this summer. The term, which means doing what's required at work and no more, went viral on the TikTok app after a New York software engineer posted a video on the trend.
Yet the rejection of hustle culture started in China long before it was popularized in the West.
"I talk with my friends, and they often use that term like 'tang ping,' I really want to lie down and I don't want to do my job and don't want to achieve something," said Dian Gu, who works as a content specialist for an internet company in China.
Since 2021, the internet in China has been awash with the phrases tang ping, which means "lying flat" in Mandarin, and more recently bai lan, which means "let it rot." This has coincided with many young people in China becoming increasingly frustrated with both their personal and professional lives.
Unlike most countries, China has continued to pursue a zero-Covid strategy, which requires strict and sudden lockdowns and extensive testing for cities experiencing outbreaks, confining hundreds of millions of Chinese people to their homes.
As a result, the economy has slowed and unemployment is rising. The labor market has shrunk since 2019, and there is fierce competition for white-collar jobs.
"We could definitely link this wave of quiet quitting and rethinking work, to an inherent lack of satisfaction with what is out there in terms of job availability," said Maria Kordowicz, an associate professor in organizational behavior at the University of Nottingham.
So is China's hard-working culture about to change? Watch our video above to find out more.
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It's funny that quiet quitting is actually just "normal work ethic"
Bosses:
I'm glad people are quiet quitting. It means they are finally starting to take care of their mental health. It's like a self defense mechanism to avoid burnout.
Hustling used to get you somewhere in a company, but increasingly it's more about who you know, who likes you. Not on merit but on likeability.
Quiet quitting seems to be the term used now for taking care of your mental health + minding your own business
As a 54 year old Australian, I'm still working full time to pay off a mortgage I've had since my early 30's, and can't scale back until it's cleared, in about another five years.
People "quite quit" because they were "quiet fired" by removing any incentive or reward for all that extra effort (pensions, retirement accounts, equity, seniority bonus, etc.) It's a gaslighting term of human resources. Just like "we are like a family here" to disrespect your boundaries and guilt trip you for trying to enforce them.
I started quiet quitting after working at my job for 2 years and being constantly praised by management and the owner for going above and beyond but when I asked for a raise they said my job had a "set wage" and I would never be eligible for a raise, nor a promotion.
I think i've been Quiet Quitting my whole life, I have never gone above and beyond for a corporation since they have never done that for me.
Why do people call it quiet quitting? You're doing exactly what you're supposed to in your job
I'm in my 50s. I've never not worked since I was 15. and I can tell you unequivocally, if I could go back and tell myself one thing it would be "Never go above and beyond... Never". Because it never once amounted to anything for me. Never benefitted me in any measurable way. Not once.
i've always done more than asked in every job, did above and beyond. I've realized this "hustle" usually goes unrewarded, in fact, all my bosses instead assigned me new roles and tasks to do without a pay raise or promotion. At my old job i was doing 3 different roles. All my hardwork ended up being used, exploited, and me getting burnt out. I now only do what is expected and give them 60% of my work ethic lol. My friends feel the same way. One of my friends worked overtime because their company was understaffed for a year, the corporation made 60% more than last year, did they give my friend's department a raise, promotion, anything for hustling??????? nope,.
Who would have thought people would get tired of working more hours than their grandparents and barely afford a roof over their head and food on the table.
We've watched older family members sacrifice everything for their jobs, just to have that company cut them off right before retirement.
Just turned 40. My career was a failure but my wife has been very successful. She has always gone to the max at her job, it's just her personality, but throughout her twenties she did not work at a place for more than a year maybe a year and a half. The reason she changed so much is because when she was at a place that did not recognize and reward her for going above and beyond she left. She made some horizontal moves she made some sort of upward moves but once she got to the right place she went up like a rocket. It's hard to believe that in only 7 years we've gone from both of us working together making less than 50K to her alone making over 200K. Now we're way behind because our twenties and the beginning of our 30s were essentially lost. We weren't able to buy a house we weren't able to save any money and we did not gain any skills that we use in our day-to-day lives now. So I think quiet quitting is a rational thing to do it's what I ended up doing before I didn't need to work anymore, but a better idea is change jobs until you find a place that actually recognizes the work you do and rewards you with money and with promotions. Now this experience was brutal and cruel and there were intense moments of despair throughout. This is a bad system and I cannot recommend it. But while you toil get by and think is an option that will improve your life more than just punch in the clock
It should not be called quiet quitting instead call it an “awakening realization”that the system that we are pushed so hard to work under gives you crumbs every-time you make a pie
This is happening in the Indian IT industry now. This was not the case 15 years back. Companies didn't differentiate much between star performers and average performers. So there is no motivation to be a star performer. For example a developer does a great job, the team gets appreciation and awards. The same developer messes up, he gets blamed. This work culture doesn't motivate anyone to go the extra mile.
In my parents' day, it was possible for a working person to earn enough to support his or her family in a 40-hour week. People had more time for social activities and were more willing to take on volunteer admin roles in clubs, for example. They are still doing it today. Many clubs and events are now run by people over 70 because there are hardly any young people to replace them. It seems like we are working ourselves to death at all levels of society, and something has to change soon.
I'm a Chinese and I can feel it. for so many years we were told to work hard, chase your dream, we can make big money, live a better life. but in fact whatever how hard we working, we can't afford to buy a house or get merried, not mention to raise a baby in China cost like crazy. The rich people and powerful gov ppl had everything in their hand and ready for their kids to take over. "Normal people" just keep working to feed themselfes, can't do anything more. So why we keep working that hard? Landlords and goverment people have everything, in China 2% of people controlled 95% of China. No point for us to working hard. They do whatever they want, we just don't get merried. "Normaly people" just live alone and die along, so we can slowly disppear, help goverment to reduce total population, make those rich kids and goverment kids happy. They can have more houses and money~~~haha🤣😂
Employers stopped offering incentives for going "above and beyond"