The Truth About Quiet Quitting | Simon Sinek

Why is it called quiet quitting? If you just do the job and no more that’s not quitting🤔

Why does he look like John Lennon

I have to say it as a pro-capitalist person, is arguments like this one, that promote Socialism. The irony is that the greatest defenders of Capitalism are also the biggest promoters of Socialism.

He doesn't even understand the reason people are quit quitting is because our ambition is not being met by what the companies who demand ambition offer as reward.

Sinek is a master of making up stories that support his narrative. I can guarantee that this "polyamorous girl" with 4 boyfriends does not exist.

Are the companies honest? No. They use a lot of tools and psychology to make you work harder and pay the same.

Sholdnt I let my current boss be a reference so that they can call my boss after job interviews? Or should I say they can call my boss if I get the job?

1:53 Man I made the same choice . I think the best thing to do is to say to the recruiters IS that you are targeting a similar job where you can use your skills and develop new ones in an a company that highly values work life balance . you never have to lie , but keep a professional posture, sell your skills/experiences and ask as many questions as possible during each intw and take notes. When you're at work, learn to say No, when you don't have bandwith or you're asked to do something that is out of your responsibilities. Been honest and respectful with yourself and others means also to be able to say No.

4 boyfriends... I also have a name for that..

So if we cannot have few jobs you cannot have multiple businesses - same thing. if your focus is spread we as your workers also get less attention and that also hurts our business and puts US at risk that the company might die and we will be in turn Hurt..

I watched the boomers and early gen x give their lives to their work and after they retired, some just died and most just seem to be managing doctor appointments. So my question is, when did you get to live the life you wanted? You hated your job for 40 years and now every time you talk about your life you talk about your health or how the world is falling to shit. I don't want that to be me in 40 years.

Dream on, Simon lol. Corporations will NEVER allow for this level of empowerment (aka freedom) for employees. The control is where the corporations strive. They want you to work how, when and as much as they dictate. If not, they are punitive through demotions and low/no increases. And even then, they may just reward your hard work with unearned layoffs.

Poly relationships never work no matter how honest they are 😂

It is amusing to see this polyamorous example. They have 90% + failure rate. Every romantic relationship involves some degree of power, more than 2 will fail whatever they think they can set up consciously... which actually perfectly proves the point that there is no point in this conversation.

Companies, especially the big ones, want you to do more and more for the same pay. But you can't moan or nag about it. When you do, they look at you like you have done the worst thing ever. In my performance review, they advised me to join the festivities outside work because that supposedly would benefit me. In the same review, they also kind of stonewalled me by not allowing me to follow legitimate courses to enhance my skills (that would benefit the company, only not in my position, but hopefully another one). Then I got a million excuses why this couldn't happen. Basically, I need to stay where I am and do extra tasks on top of them. Then why do I need to join the parties and mingle with people I am never ever going to work with directly? This would only benefit me if I got promoted. It's all BS. Well, I told them they were full of it. Besides, if they think they can force me to do something I don't want to do, outside work, they don't know the first thing about me.

Quiet quitting is the first death knell in modern capitalism.

Reducing years of my life due to stress for a whopping 2% is not worth it when i can just switch to another job and make 10% more. Quiet quitting is not being lazy the real defenition is doing only what its in the job description.

I have been quiet quitting since I was 35 and I am 55

“It’s about honesty and managing expectations”

Ye, sure it is. The honest expectation right now is that unless you earn 100K+ in the bigger EU economies or 200K+ in the US - you will not own a place to live.
Also we now get a crysis every 5 years and multiple candidates to kick off nuclear world war. Meanwhile most regular people live in debt and trillionaires are organizing their leisure on a certain island!

But hey! That’s definitely because employees are just not honest enough.

Go touch the grass dude

Simon Sinek is insane. Work is work, not a relationship.

I don't know what this guy is talking about? He's trying to make this weird roundabout argument where he doesn't wanna criticize these multi-million dollar companies, but he also doesn't wanna come off as unrelatable to the audience. His argument is "It's okay for a company to treat you like dog shit as long as they're honest about it." There are domestic abuse victims that are completely okay with their husbands crushing their skulls. Neither is okay, the act of honestly doesn't make it any less worse. This is why government exists and why we have labor laws, there's no such thing as a consensual relationship when one side has SIGNIFICANTLY more power than the other and they consistently use it against the party with significantly less power.

Omg, this dude is delusional.

BS people can smell it from a mile away.

I agree with almost everything you say but not the part about cost of living wage increases. Why is it that if the cost of raw materials, utilities or tax rates go up due to inflation you don't ask, "How much more of it will I get for this increased price?" but the minute someone asks for a raise to keep up with the cost of living, the first question the employer asks is "How much more will you do for this increase?" I understand that would apply to increases above CPI or a new role with more responsibilities but why is it everything but labor goes up without getting any more but wages must be tied to productivity?

I had to figure out by the small pieces of information that Amazon was trash and of course I try to avoid everything that has a Bezos imprint but he always played the good guy role, like Jobs and Zuckerberg.

What this four eyed is saying is BS. I don’t remember Amazon or Apple telling people they will squeeze them completely out and treat them like a number.

I think the organization I work for has "quiet quit" paying salaries. They pay me every month, but only the amount stated in the contract. They're not putting their hand up and saying "hey, you deserve this" and giving me 30% more than what we contractually agreed on. They're not letting me have more time off than I'm entitled to, they're just not going above and beyond.

That's how ridiculous this conversation sounds to me.

You need to work hard

Overwork every single person around you

You need to work smart even above working hard

Focus on results that you can talk about end of the year

Success and rewards will automatically come to you

Thank you for a video on this topic. What I would like to know is what happens, when your superiors are not interested in an open conversation about building one's career? When they have a mindset of, I just want you to do your job, not grow in your role or career, so that the status quo is kept.
But move the goal posts at the same time.

Even the phrase "quiet quitting" is gaslighting. It's just doing the job you're paid for and no more.

I love so many of Simon’s perspectives, but this one in particular I think he is ignoring the central obstacle: Employers and Employers don’t have equal power. You can see how this plays out if you look at theories around patriarchy: women had to become manipulative because they depended on men for their survival. The same is true in an employment situation for anyone other than the most in-demand employees. I think the ideal is beautiful but out-of-touch with the average reality. Also, he’s ignoring the existence of cognitive dissonance and people’s amazing ability to lie to themselves. Good idea, very limited applicability. That said, like full social equality, it’s something to work towards while recognizing that it’s nearly impossible to achieve in our current world.

This started for me during the pandemic. I was the only person in my office building for almost two years, whilst everyone else was "working from home". Did management ever check in on me during this time? No, did they feck.
From that time onwards, I just thought no longer am I putting myself out for any job. I work to rule, do everything I am paid to do,but nothing else. No meetings that don't directly affect me, no work away-days, no overtime.

Honesty is all good and well, if money and employment is not an issue. With a job market this tight, are you willing to light a potential job opportunity on fire? No way. Tell them what they want to hear so you can pay your bills while you look for something better. Hiring managers are sales people trying to sell you on a job. They're not going to be honest with you. They know it, and you should know it, too. You owe them your labor and the hours agreed upon, nothing more. The honest fool is the last moral person in a game full of liars. Don't be the that fool. Simon is a "thought leader", not a pragmatist. Cute to listen to, hard to apply to real life business.

Management does the minimum for us, we do the minimum for them.

“Can I get this salary eventually?”
“Absolutely, do these things in this time and you’ll have that salary!”
-do those things in that time and return.
“I’ve hit the goals we set and want the pay we discussed”
“What are you talking about? We can’t afford to pay you that.”

It is stupid.. you only have 20 years. You will loose your skills chances ,confidence of others. Most qqers also loose their Jobs.. is it worth it.

I worked at a company that presented a table for how they grade people. So if you do something that is extraordinarily and something new and groundbreaking you would get an A. So I did. In the salary review my
Manager told me that he doesn’t want to give me an A because that would just put unnecessary pressure on me for future reviews to uphold the standard. So of course if there was no upside to any effort why would I invent something on company time? I quit quitted right then and there.

he is talking as if everything is matter of personal choice and preference ... which is not at this late stage of capitalism

and his naive optimism is really annoying

What a load of bullshit.

This guy is so irritating...

I am not a lazy worker and i am not a gen z (i'm 40) i've also worked since i was 16 and always managed to move up the ladder and get raises in quick succession. But I think it's really not a massive character flaw or whatever to not get a boner for work like these two seem to do. I personally don't enjoy working at all...I like what i do but i wish i didn't have to work 5 days a week for 8/9 hours. I would MUCH rather spend my day, with my loved ones, cooking, working out, playing the piano or producing music, reading etc than working.

Also I think it's just massively flawed in general to have 7 days in a week and you have to work 5 of them. It should be more balanced than that, like 4 day work weeks with 3 day weekends would make way more sense. I've worked multiple places that have half day Fridays (i live in Europe not America) and it's awesome.

Lastly this is all a useless topic realllllly as within 10 max 15 years pretty much nobody will have a job anyway.

im not sure if its a good idea to be honest about it in our professional lives, because from an employer perspective someone who is more invested in the company would be almost always better, even though he may not be necessarily the perfect match, for instance if its a technical job.

It’s important to have pride in one’s work, show up on time, leave on time, finish your tasks in a timely fashion, do your work properly, etc. But at the end of the day it’s still just a means to an end: it’s a way to pay bills, take care of family if you have one, take care of one’s self, and also hopefully pay for some fun stuff too along the way. Work should be treated like a marathon not a sprint.

Lol, not this guy being someones boyfriend number 5 giving you advice how to talk about your work performance with your manager, as honest as in that situationship of his. Lol, no

Why the fuck is Cillian Murphy in the thumbnail ?

I’ve asked for a raise and management said “no”. So I resigned. Halfway into the resignation, they finally agreed to give me a raise. So it’s not always simply just asking for a raise. You have to take action.

I would argue that employers "quiet quit" their employees before the employees "quiet quit" their job.
Simon, think about the definition you just gave for quiet quitting, doing the bare minimum to get by. Employers often times give their employees the bare minimum they need to give them with regard to wage, benefits, respect, etc. When employees can tell their company is giving only what they have to and nothing more, employees are bound to reciprocate that level of effort.