This whole "quiet quitting" thing baffles me. What I've seen it described as is the same way I've worked the vast majority of the time at every job I've had over 27 years.
In one of my first jobs, our boss made a big point of us never working outside the hours we were supposed to. They believed totally that work and life should be kept separate, with the latter always taking priority if there were conflicts. I've carried that with me and pretty much stuck to it. It seems perfectly reasonable to me, and I don't understand why you'd want to do otherwise.
This attitude is common in western Europe but in the US "success" in your work means more than that. It's an external sign of your (religious) virtue as Max Weber first identified
This whole "quiet quitting" thing baffles me. What I've seen it described as is the same way I've worked the vast majority of the time at every job I've had over 27 years.
In one of my first jobs, our boss made a big point of us never working outside the hours we were supposed to. They believed totally that work and life should be kept separate, with the latter always taking priority if there were conflicts. I've carried that with me and pretty much stuck to it. It seems perfectly reasonable to me, and I don't understand why you'd want to do otherwise.
You work to live, not live to work.
This attitude is common in western Europe but in the US "success" in your work means more than that. It's an external sign of your (religious) virtue as Max Weber first identified
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Protes...
Of course many people do that without thinking about the religious background nowadays because it's deeply embedded in the culture