Employee spends 3 years ‘quiet quitting’ without management noticing, until manager figures it out and claims: ‘You're not making any progress in your career’

If you spend 3 years "quiet quitting" your job without actually getting fired, are you really quiet quitting?

Instead of actually handing in a resignation letter, many employees take a different route, which might prove to be a lot more beneficial.

When one decides to quit their job, as soon as they hand in that letter, they are on their own. If they don't have another job lined up, they may very well be looking at months without a solid income, which is never easy. But if one plays their cards right, they can convince their employer to fire them, and potentially get the exact same result they wanted, but with a severance package and unemployment money as well.

We call that "quiet quitting". You become such an incompetent employee that your boss has to fire you, and you get to go home and find a job you would actually want to put effort into.

However, you must understand that this method doesn't always work, which is why the employee in the story below has spent the last three years quietly quitting without getting the end result. Since they weren't happy about this job from the moment they got it, they decided to start "quiet quitting" from day one. But the problem with that is that the employer never noticed a change.

Management never knew this employee had more to give, because they provided the absolute bare minimum from their first day at the office. Which is why it took them over three years to start demanding more of the employee, who by that point was just waiting for the day they would finally fire them.

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3.5 years into quiet quitting and they are starting to notice

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Getting paid $100k for doing the bare minimum 4 days a week doesn't sound like such a bad deal to us. A lot of people have it much worse. If they've been doing this job for over three years, they must be doing something right, and maybe they would be better just sticking it out for a little longer before completely giving up.
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