Page West, a former engineering consultant, discusses with CNN's Michael Smerconish why she "quiet quit" her job. #CNN #News
Engineer says she ‘quiet quit’ her job. Hear what that means
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If we all stopped working for a week they said the economy would shut down, maybe we should stop for a week and demand livable wages and living conditions
@Brandon Lesco what’s the point of that comment?
@David Keen ..I’m totally not for relying on the government, you misinterpreted…
@Teresa Ellis oh no I did not. You see wages has nothing to do with the goverment. If that was the case we all would be working at 7.25 an hour minimum.
Just because the job sucks does not mean you should be paid more. Again skillless job don’t pay well and we’re never ment to pay well.
I have had 12 jobs in 20 years. Not to make my way up mind you. I go where the money is and who will pay me more. I have averaged about 70k per year Over 10 years some jobs higher some lower.
I don’t see how a company should pay a livable wage when everyone’s living is different. I have little to no debt. No car payment no cell phone payment except the bill. (I am not paying off a phone) I don’t eat our every other day for lunch and I don’t buy over priced coffee. Before people complain about wages…lol at your spending first…..example why do women need a new pair of designer shoes 5-8 times a year at 100 or a pair?
@David Keen …I agree…mostly….We live in a 79,000 house in midwest..we bought 29 years ago..He has army pension and just hit 20 with Toyota..it’s not easy ..not rich..not poor..we made sacrifices…correction..we bought 20 years ago..most with our income live much more extravagant than we do..we could…we chose not to..
Workers are starting to realize that their employers will NEVER be as loyal to them as they expect their employees to be to the company. They are tired of being exploited. This is also a result of a generation coming to the realization that they will be poorer than their parents generation for the first time since the industrial revolution. Capitalism has failed.
@Nic C It’s running out of people to exploit. I think we are all tired of bailing out the investor class with our labour.
“From that time Jesus began to preach, and to say, Repent: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.” Matthew 4:17
“Ye have heard that it hath been said, An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth: But I say unto you, That ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also.” Matthew 5:38-39||
It’s encouraging to see young people with so much positive outlook and the brains and enthusiasm to make their own path. Especially for women, who achieve and work their way up that corporate ladder only to find at the top it’s a very biased place for women to grow past their mid level job.
Yeah, it’s still the “good old boys” club. A lot of younger, smarter women are starting their own companies.
I know this is nuanced but 1/2 the reason women aren’t in the c suite is because they are discriminated against- the other half is because they are too smart to waste their lives on that bullshit corporate ladder.
The Bible says Jesus is the way truth and life, no one comes unto the Father, but through Jesus . Your sins were bought with The Blood of Jesus Christ. Accept His free gift of salvation.
✝️For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.
(Romans 10:13 KJV)
For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:
(Ephesians 2:8)
God bless
Let’s be honest most corporate leader jobs are managing people, not doing the work. They sit in meetings and look at emails with claims that have other urgent things to respond to. Meanwhile, the people are getting more work. Mismanaged. Burned out.
@Time Surfer I’m not against what your saying
@Jerel Boza $4.25 was minimum wage and I paid for it. I was making considerably more than $4.25 an hr for only high school. I am not good at accepting handouts.
The Bible says Jesus is the way truth and life, no one comes unto the Father, but through Jesus . Your sins were bought with The Blood of Jesus Christ. Accept His free gift of salvation.
✝️For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.
(Romans 10:13 KJV)
For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:
(Ephesians 2:8)
God bless
@James So rent wasn’t anywhere near it’s now, neither way college tuition. Thanks for proving my point
I’m fortunate and that I got a new senior manager in our office who decided to interview everyone and realign them according to their strengths as people and we’ve been happy ever since and actually have has Ford and Gros that doesn’t mean that I support Smerconish unless I absolutely support the person he was interviewing there’s no reason that employers who are under no obligation to be loyal to us should require the same loyalty back
I love how rich people who didn’t earn their own money complain that we don’t want to work. All they do is get tax breaks and subsidies from the government.
@Shadow “I just support and enforce bigotry and wage slavery. I’m one of the good ones!”
Own up to it
How many who didn’t ant to go back to work have families they take care of while working from home?
How many are disabled, able to score a good job after covid or during working from home?
How many are elderly and don’t want to commute anymore, people who should of retired but HAD to go back to work because everything gets more expensive but people do not get paid more
How many people have a second job, one that has to be in person?
@Follower of Jesus Christ stop preaching.
There’s a load of things going on causing these “quiet-quiiting” and “ditching/ loafing” spates going on. Part of the blame rightfully rests on the CEOs who rake money in hand over fist while the employees who legitimately do most of the work in the company get a pittance paycheck. Another part of the blame lies more for the retail section and “Karen” customers treating employees like they’re somehow less than human.
exactly 💯. And still cant afford housing that these companies are actually invested in woth private equity.
This is a good movement! For far too long Americans have seen work culture as something that needs to take over your life. Work life should not affect our personal life. Corporate CEOs are making more money than ever from taking advantage of workers and it’s not right, people are waking up and realizing that loyalty to a company is not reciprocated and we need to take care of ourselves. For crying out loud other countries demand companies give employees adequate PTO! United Kingdom is 28 days! That’s a whole month of PTO! This is just a wakeup, if companies want employees to be happier and put more effort then they should make employees happier and put more effort themselves.
Good luck needing someone in the trades to fix something for you in the future… like your central a/c on a 90° day. It’s hard work and no one wants to do it. Working hard isn’t bad… being lazy and self centered is. Ultimately you will pay the price of being an egocentric generation.
There are EIGHT further paid “bank holidays” here in England on top of the 28 days paid leave. These are holidays like Christmas Day, Easter extra that you must have as paid leave. If you have to work they have to offer you an additional holiday day to take later. There are 9 additional days here in Scotland. So that this is 37 paid holiday days a year by law. You get 6 weeks of fully paid maternity leave and an extra 33 weeks at $200 a week if you want it. This is statutory, meaning the company cannot refuse or sack (fire) them.
Here in the UK we are also currently undergoing the world’s largest trial of the four-day working week. There is evidence to suggest people work harder and achieve more in four days than they do in five. 70 major companies are currently letting thousand so workers only work a four day week.
So you are right, Americans don’t understand a live-work balance. It is work to live and not live to work.
If you took your last breath on earth where would you spend ETERNITY? Heaven or Hell.
The Bible says Jesus is the way truth and life, no one comes unto the Father, but through Jesus . Your sins were bought with The Blood of Jesus Christ. Accept His free gift of salvation.
✝️For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.
(Romans 10:13 KJV)
For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:
(Ephesians 2:8)
God bless
My employer is awesome. He gives me raises I didn’t ask for, he gives me bonuses, he doesn’t care what I do with my time just so long as the systems are all functioning correctly. I work from home and haven’t been to the office since the start of COVID. Yeah, I don’t have plans on going anywhere else, even though I could get paid more elsewhere. But why would I want more pay when I’d have to put on a suit and commute and have someone looking over my shoulder? Yech! Feck all that!
Employers take note!!
@Richard Nunez Thanks for saying it for me Richard.
@Richard Nunez amen
@I Love Jesus Reigns Forever Reported for spam.
I advise everyone else do likewise.
@John Smithe Did the same.
“From that time Jesus began to preach, and to say, Repent: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.” Matthew 4:17
“Ye have heard that it hath been said, An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth: But I say unto you, That ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also.” Matthew 5:38-39||
“you’ll get what you pay for” People want to make enough to have a life beyond mere check to check survival.
All work and no play and the world can become very humdrum no matter what you do.
The Bible says Jesus is the way truth and life, no one comes unto the Father, but through Jesus . Your sins were bought with The Blood of Jesus Christ. Accept His free gift of salvation.
✝️For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.
(Romans 10:13 KJV)
For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:
(Ephesians 2:8)
God bless
Things changed during extended lockdown. People adjusted their lives to working from home in ways that can be hard to undo. Many organizations have adjusted too, realizing real cost savings AND increased productivity. My CEO certainly says so.
Afaic if an employee is reachable, responsive and fulfills requirements on time, wth more do you want?
Special circumstances, projects, etc that require long hours is one thing. But this idea that ‘good’ workers sacrifice their lives and health _as a matter of course_ has always been ludicrous _and costly_ over time.
The Bible says Jesus is the way truth and life, no one comes unto the Father, but through Jesus . Your sins were bought with The Blood of Jesus Christ. Accept His free gift of salvation.
✝️For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.
(Romans 10:13 KJV)
For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:
(Ephesians 2:8)
God bless
This has always been me. She explained it best at the very end. I am a professional, I give it my all during work but I let go when I leave and not interested in committees outside of work. Not looking to climb the cooperates ladder either and I value my interest and hobbies outside of work. I would say I’m better aligned with Europe work design as they really put a big emphasis on work home balance as the best employee in the end. I’m not nearly as burned out as others who always put work projects first and outside work when is designated as relaxation time away from the stress of work.
@I Love Jesus Reigns Forever I know u are a troll but all that made me physically Ill.
@Olen Cone well he sorta is in the sense his employers don’t work for the money their employees make them xD
“From that time Jesus began to preach, and to say, Repent: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.” Matthew 4:17
“Ye have heard that it hath been said, An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth: But I say unto you, That ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also.” Matthew 5:38-39||
@Mari E I’m European. I find most corporations here are very professional in their dealings with staff and equality. Salaries are good and extra effort is recognised. I went for an interview with an American Corp with large offices here. I didn’t like the atmosphere and energy. I was later offered the position. I thanked them but said it was not for me. They appeared to be astonished at my response. Asked if I wanted more money. Explained why I didn’t feel positive after the interview. They seemed to be surprised that somebody would tell them that. I wouldn’t work for an American company based on what I’ve seen online. Why should an employee feel so grateful for a job that they would relinquish all their spare time? I work extra hours because I love my job and admire my employers.
@Sly Shadows give me a break, wages haven’t gone up in years and people are tired of it
I chose to retire early 11 years ago rather than continue to work for a company that required 70 hrs every week with no extra pay for the OT, especially since the management treated us like disposable parts. It used to be a nice place to work but the greed at the top ruined it.
The Bible says Jesus is the way truth and life, no one comes unto the Father, but through Jesus . Your sins were bought with The Blood of Jesus Christ. Accept His free gift of salvation.
✝️For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.
(Romans 10:13 KJV)
For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:
(Ephesians 2:8)
God bless
The biggest mistake that I ever made was giving far over 100% by working 7 days per week. In the meantime, other staff members quit (not quietly) while executive officers continued to ask me to put in even more time. Eventually I walked away when they insisted that I pick up the slack for 4 missing workers and wanted to argue about a 2% raise. They also kept promising a promotion that never arrived. My boss actually died of a heart attack 3 days after I left, so the stress was apparently real.
Ya, and the super-rich are working so hard. they need to keep more of their money. if u believe that vote republican.
Then you’ll all complain that immigrants are taking your jobs. 🎻
@Steve Withers your friend got screwed. I have been selling for 23 years made income well above average. I have never had an issue not being paid based on the comp plan. I work straight commission sales.
I walked too, right in the middle of the project, because I got tired of being exploited. My boss was pissed because he had to hire two guys to replace me. I had enough when even the simplest request was not granted. Our laptops werr too old, so they bought everyone new ones, but to save cost, some got desktop and some laptops. I ended up with a desktop, which means to work from home with the remote team in India that I led, I had to use the old laptop to remote into my desktop. When a coworker with a new laptop left, the boss asked me to keep his laptop. So naturally I asked if I could use it, and he didn’t say yes or no, just a non answer : “but that means you’d get both while the policy is everyone has one”. That laptop was just sitting there because they didn’t plan on any replacement. I could’ve just use it and disregard what he said, and no one would care. But I was fed up already and started looking for another job and quit shortly after.
With CEO salaries growing faster and more significantly than employees, how is it not understandable that workers feel exploited? If you don’t incentivize good work, then people will look for better opportunities. Smerconish portraying the employers as victims is comedic. Maybe the “quitters” are the CEO’s of their own future. Never forget, your company will hire your replacement tomorrow if they feel like it. Nobody is irreplaceable.
If you took your last breath on earth where would you spend ETERNITY? Heaven or Hell.
The Bible says Jesus is the way truth and life, no one comes unto the Father, but through Jesus . Your sins were bought with The Blood of Jesus Christ. Accept His free gift of salvation.
✝️For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.
(Romans 10:13 KJV)
For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:
(Ephesians 2:8)
God bless
@I Love Jesus Reigns Forever this is not pertinent to this conversation
CEO-“They do the minimum of their job!”
Employee-“You pay the minimum required by law”
Why should people break their back for employers with zero loyalty. Absolutely agree with her, it’s not about disregarding your job. It’s about putting down the work phone when you are off the clock, not responding to emails and inquiries off the job, not getting stressed over some metric or KPI that missed goal.
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Employers can easily gain buy in, but they want to under pay and treat the heart of their business model as if it doesn’t matter.
You don’t know what youvare talking about.
How many who didn’t ant to go back to work have families they take care of while working from home?
How many are disabled, able to score a good job after covid or during working from home?
How many are elderly and don’t want to commute anymore, people who should of retired but HAD to go back to work because everything gets more expensive but people do not get paid more
How many people have a second job, one that has to be in person?
@Bozza B
Lol
So, what I’m hearing is that the young woman was working a 9 – 5 corporate job (traditional), but wasn’t feeling deeply invested (for whatever reasons), so she began to build her own business outside of “work”. Finally, she dumped her “corporate job” in favor of her own, more fulfilling, home-grown business. So … she’s an entrepreneur … and that makes her bad?
And Mr. Smerconish, if she’s doing well, taking pride in her own production, and enjoying her personal business AND more fulfilling life … why would she ever go back to that boring, dull, unfulfilling corporate job? I’m not really seeing anything weird here at all. Sounds like a perfectly good story of a woman who has built her own successful business. And she’s quite content. Sounds good to me.
He’s old school and expects the “free stuff” from workers, the 1000%, team player, extra items if someone’s hired. She understood her job and delivered. No long hours, extra training, etc. Done and done.
Pretty telling when Christian bots are all over a video pertaining to wage slavery
I did this 7 years ago, it was the best thing I ever did. Make your side hustle you main job, dont be an employee ever, we need to teach kids this too, no one should want to work for someone else.
@Niall Flynn Good in theory but when your business grows, you’re gonna want to hire people. Ergo, you’re expecting others to “want to work for someone else”.
@Rob ‘Emrys’ Brown Because the CEOs are always putting the responsibility onto middle management to reach those all important numbers that continue to line the CEO’s and shareholder’s pockets.
It’s a fool’s errand – someone gets a job and strives to reach the top of the heap, gets all puff-chested when they receive that promotion to middle management and big responsibilities, doesn’t actually understand what that entails, and ends up being pressured by those in the ivory tower and (probably) hated by the workers they climbed over.
Gotta love corporate life 🤪
We can see the “reality gap” that goes hand in hand with the wealth gap in America. Diamond’s opinion of Americans being lazy and incompetent is a clear indication of his ilk’s detachment from the reality experienced by the majority of Americas.
Quiet quitting is nothing new. I rose through the ranks of corporate America, and it was a common experience in all of my roles that I worked harder than executives. Yet, they take credit for all the innovation and productivity improvements when they contributed nothing to the team’s work. It was also seen that when the team was not appropriately rewarded and included in the recognition, they became disillusioned and only did what the boss asked of them; they “quiet quit, “and business stagnated.
Corporate executives have come to believe their narcissistic delusions and think they deserve all the credit and all the pay. The people are merely mule teams to drive until they drop and find a replacement mule. I am not just espousing an uninformed opinion. I was high enough in the ranks to have first-hand knowledge of this “strategic” planning. In offsite meetings at expensive venues, the executives openly spoke of their disdain for their workers and planned things like layoffs of senior workers before they earned their full pension.
Maybe there are first or second-generation “Chinese” immigrant workers who do not yet recognize the paradigm, but they will.
The cuteness, from what I’ve read, immigrants, especially Asians, generally work for themselves or with their families.
@C Mathews My experience differs. I think your characterization is more historically accurate. Asian countries have improved their education system, and immigrants are highly functional, if not fluent, in English. Plus, qualified Asians are more assertive in seeking work abroad because there are fewer highly skilled jobs in their region. American companies also recruit heavily abroad, taking advantage of the H-1B visas to recruit foreign graduates from where they hope to extend markets. When I say “take advantage,” I mean that literally. They will circumvent the rules to bring in foreign workers when many skilled American graduates are qualified.
We used to joke darkly that if we all worked real hard the boss would get a bonus and a promotion….and we get burned out and divorced. It wasn’t really funny. It was true.
@Steve Withers “The only real laughter comes from despair.”
― Groucho Marx, The Groucho Letters
“Quiet quitting” is a glib, catchy, click-bait-y term for “re-prioritizing discretionary time”. It’s not about quitting, folks aren’t being lazy, unethical or short-changing their employer.
For too long, employers (especially American employers) have duped employees into believing that there is always someone hungrier willing to take their job, and scaring employees into sacrificing time they could spend with their families, recharging themselves, and growing as humans by investing time in their hobbies and communities. Good on these younger generations for seeing that the emperor has no clothes, that you can fulfill your duties to your employer AND have a fulfilling life. It’s not an “either/or” proposition.
1 Derrick Mickle Fuk what you saying it here 😠 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxYhxZVo-3o
Felicidades, es un buen ejemplo. 😠
5:25 Se deja ver que hay muy buenos resultados 😠😠
Saludos desde la Cd.. de world 🌹😉💖
los mortales abian apreciado tan hermosa mujer
I’m a retired truck driver and I busted my hump for 48 years before retiring . When I started working companies had benefits. They had pension plans. They had good insurance at affordable prices. In general they treated there employees with dignity and respect. Now you have nothing. You’re treated like crap and expected to work for pennies on the dollar while doing the work of two people. The last trucking company I worked for had me working 80 hours in 6 days. Legally I could only work 70 hours in 8 days. They decided I wasn’t doing enough. When I refused to do more I was threatened. So I quit!
I hired on with MaBell in 1973 it was a strict work place but we had a secure job. We were treated well and took pride in our work. Then came one breakup in 1984 and changed everything.
You should have sued. You lost out on 100k or more
I love how effectively and completely she shut down his narrative.
@bubble jim 💯
@bubble jim “Do you worry that maybe a future employer” was a red flag for me. Definitely sounded like part of this piece was attempting to influence people’s behavior, not just do good journalism.
@Sallowjoe Sallowjoe Yes, that was the question that bothered me at first. She answered it very well. I decided that it was good that he asked. It gave her a chance to show that quiet quitting isn’t loafing.
@bubble jim The narrative was that workers are lazy.
I think what actually happened is that he described “quiet quitting” the way it’s actually being described and practiced by most of the people doing so, and she responded with a bunch of blather about not stressing herself at her old job while looking for a new job.