Excellent analysis. Too often, the younger generations lack of enthusiasm for wageing is mischaracterized as simple laziness or poor morality. It’s refreshing to have someone actually interrogate the WHY of the phenomenon with candor.
In my experience, while quiet quitting is indeed unpopular, quietly automating your job is even less so. To understand why, one must examine the psychology of the manager. A manager measures his self-worth firstly by the number of people he supervises, and secondly by how busy they appear to be. Since his work mainly consists of communication, the manager will often define productivity by the amount of communication occuring both within his team and between his team and other teams. The clever automator who writes a script to obtain information others make phone calls for appears lazy and socially inactive, hence diminishing the self-worth of his manager. It is for this reason that the most productive members of a corporation are also the most reviled by their superiors.
The contract was the employee gave his loyalty in the form of "above and beyond" and the company would put in an effort to keep employees on board, even if not economically beneficial in the short term. That was destroyed and everyone is now a mercenary.
Not to mention the lack of reasonable pay increases. I had an HR lady complain to me how employees left for jobs that paid more, then came back to 30% raises like they were running a scam. No, that's called knowing your value.
Average Joe employee was just a decade behind the executives.
Excellent analysis. Too often, the younger generations lack of enthusiasm for wageing is mischaracterized as simple laziness or poor morality. It’s refreshing to have someone actually interrogate the WHY of the phenomenon with candor.
In my experience, while quiet quitting is indeed unpopular, quietly automating your job is even less so. To understand why, one must examine the psychology of the manager. A manager measures his self-worth firstly by the number of people he supervises, and secondly by how busy they appear to be. Since his work mainly consists of communication, the manager will often define productivity by the amount of communication occuring both within his team and between his team and other teams. The clever automator who writes a script to obtain information others make phone calls for appears lazy and socially inactive, hence diminishing the self-worth of his manager. It is for this reason that the most productive members of a corporation are also the most reviled by their superiors.
The contract was the employee gave his loyalty in the form of "above and beyond" and the company would put in an effort to keep employees on board, even if not economically beneficial in the short term. That was destroyed and everyone is now a mercenary.
Not to mention the lack of reasonable pay increases. I had an HR lady complain to me how employees left for jobs that paid more, then came back to 30% raises like they were running a scam. No, that's called knowing your value.
Average Joe employee was just a decade behind the executives.