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Think of a slow leak in a tire. At first, everything seems normal—the tire functions and gets you where you need to go. But gradually, that tiny leak deflates the tire until one day you realize you’ve been driving around all this time with a flat. No wonder it’s been so hard. Quiet cracking works the same way with your workplace satisfaction. Quiet cracking is the leak in the tire that is your workplace satisfaction. Or, as the researchers at TalentLMS put it, quiet cracking is “the erosion of workplace satisfaction from within.” More
Five signs you’re quietly cracking up. Here
It’s the old “quit and stay” deal. Also called “retiring on the job”.
im almost there, but my ethics won’t let me be lazy. only three years to go until retirement. I think I can make it until then.
Unfortunately this describes me.
A combination of difficult life experiences and work processes that keep changing around me.
I’m pushing through it though and will not give up!
I’ve been self employed, owner operator for about 40 years. I don’t have time for any type of crack.
What do you call it when you tell your customer to “GO FKCU YOURSELF & Call somebody else?”
Asking for a Friend…
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The wife and I have been joking for forty years that biz would be a hell of a lot easier without employees and customers.
I thought that was called “Quiet Quitting”. Or is that just what Millennials call it, and “Quiet Cracking” is the Boomer term?
We used to call it ‘creating the illusion of work’. Sometimes it’s easier to just do the work.
It’s a Huff Po article, so a good chance it’s all completely made up.
Well, apparently I’ve been “quiet cracking” for most of my 35 year career in IT. I’ve even pointed this out to my management in workflow assessments:
25% of what I do will be either rendered obsolete or reversed by future decisions or events. When I work, I prep for all possible options; so I can be ready to move fast when the leadership finally makes a decision. I don’t consider my time wasted because wasting my time is baked into the job itself.
Not enough firing going on.
Lames being lame. Self discipline is the basis of all success that doesn’t include luck or nepotism. I look at the idle desk bound blobs and think, ‘what would you do if you actually had to get something done today besides bitching about your terrible job?’ Then I think, ‘if it’s so terrible why not quit and do something more appealing? Then I think ‘you can’t, you have no useful skill.’