Ask HN: Has anyone managed to find enjoyment in their work after burnout?

Re:Ask HN: Has anyone managed to find enjoyment in their wor... by celestialcheese on Wednesday October 19, 2022 @01:57PM (#33265698)

> The concept of "quiet quitting" is a shameful, panicky fraud perpetuated by the power holders in the industry that see their power slipping

Is it?

I always took "Quiet Quitting" to mean, "Lets see how long I can do nothing until I get fired", not "Work to Rule" or "work your pay", or whatever.

I've seen this "Work 5 hours a week sporadically answering slack and see how long till they notice I produce nothing" before, and it's surprising how long I've seen people get away from doing basically 0 work and continue drawing a paycheck.

I think it's largely because most companies don't properly manage a remote teams. It happens when they don't understand how to properly set results-based expectations and deadlines for remote work.

But it's also a huge middle-finger to your teammates who may still care about their work and job, and having dead-weight on the team is demoralizing.

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Re:Ask HN: Has anyone managed to find enjoyment in their wor... by Waterluvian on Wednesday October 19, 2022 @02:00PM (#33265727)

That would basically just be “fraud” IMO. Maybe others can chime in but I’ve only seen quiet quitting described as “not going above and beyond anymore. Just doing the minimal job.”

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Re:Ask HN: Has anyone managed to find enjoyment in their wor... by bjourne on Wednesday October 19, 2022 @06:31PM (#33268689)

Can you give some details on where you saw this "work 5 hours a week" thing? I have never seen anything like that in my career. I have seen incompetent colleagues who worked hard but produced less than 5 hours of useful work per week though.

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Re:Ask HN: Has anyone managed to find enjoyment in their wor... by celestialcheese on Wednesday October 19, 2022 @06:37PM (#33268745)

I found out through a friend they had started a new job, and instead of turning in notice, they just rode it out for a few months taking multiple paychecks. Look around on r/overemployed on reddit for a lot more examples of the mindset that does this type of thing.

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Re:Ask HN: Has anyone managed to find enjoyment in their wor... by smcl on Thursday October 20, 2022 @03:48AM (#33271893)

I'd take what you read on subreddits like this with a pinch of salt. A lot of people like to embellish or flat-out lie to either fit in, sound cool or to provoke a reaction (see "am I the asshole").

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Re:Ask HN: Has anyone managed to find enjoyment in their wor... by celestialcheese on Thursday October 20, 2022 @03:28PM (#33279470)

:shrug: there's definitely role-playing in there, but anecdotally, I know 2 close friends who did this during Covid and had 2-3 full-time jobs in non-software roles.

So I imagine the percentage of role-playing in r/overemployeed is less than 50%.

That's a non-trivial number of people, and I'd bet if you work for a large company, there's a non-trivial of people doing this now. (See the thread about Experion firing contractors with multiple jobs[1])

1 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33198708

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Re:Ask HN: Has anyone managed to find enjoyment in their wor... by juve1996 on Wednesday October 19, 2022 @08:21PM (#33269446)

Companies don't know hot to manage in office teams either. So many people walk in, do nothing all day, complain, are awful to work with, etc.

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