I have had so many different types of jobs in my 7-or-so years of working. It’s one of my biggest faults and I know it would be a heck of a lot easier for me if I could just pick something and settle down. If you’ve found a career that you really enjoy, I’m happy for you! I am just not cut out for traditional employment. If you can survive in a job for long, good for you! It’s just not in my personality to do the same. *sigh* If only we had temp agencies here.Īnd now, I’m not saying those of you who do have careers and steady jobs are just soulless robots. I know that’s not something I can really change and everyone tells me that I have to learn to work around it, but I am not capable of sacrificing my integrity and inner peace.
#JOB QUITTER FULL#
Especially in this country full of ignorant people, I can’t handle being around a group of homophobic racist staff members for long. I do not thrive in environments like these, and I just wish people could understand that. People tell me that that’s ‘just the way it is’, but that’s not good enough for me. I’m always being told that I just need to ‘suck it up’ and ‘deal with it’, but it’s impossible for me, honestly. (That’s putting it lightly, for those who know me) I can’t succeed in a corporate environment, doing that 8 to 4 stint, wearing stuffy clothes and high heeled shoes, conforming to a certain image, being treated like a slave, and just full on losing my individuality and becoming a robot. I am definitely not a career person, and I’m not a fan of capitalism either. I’m just not one of those people who can stay in a job they hate and continue living a wholesome life. It’s either it gets too monotonous and I get bored with the routine, or I get really fed up with the environment and my coworkers and it starts affecting my mental health. For me, it’s not because the job itself gets difficult. Do you know someone like this? Lasts about a few months to maybe a year, then quits and moves on to something else. Cause let’s face it, I’m a chronic job quitter. All I can think is ‘I really hope I can do this’ and ‘I wonder how long I’m gonna last this time’. Everyone gets those nervous and anxious feelings about any big new step in their life, right? But here I am feeling double the anxiety and nerves, since I’m just a generally anxious person to begin with. Workers still knew they couldn’t afford holidays, restaurant visits and fuel bills so what was the point of “going beyond” at work? A telling point, one feels.I’m starting a new job soon (yes! A real job!), and boy am I feeling that anxiety. Interestingly, Dr Ashley Weinberg, an occupational psychologist at the University of Salford, quoted in the same Observer piece, says that although enlightened companies were designing jobs that give employees control, pride in their work and a fair wage, these initiatives were being undermined by the cost of living crisis. She says we can juxtapose quiet quitting with the “great resignation”. She adds that our collective navel-gazing about our lives during and since the pandemic has led to us mentally checking out from our jobs and a “lack of enthusiasm, less engagement”. Her evidence was that a Gallup poll had revealed that only 9% of workers in the UK were engaged or enthusiastic about their work, ranking this country 33rd out of 38 in Europe. Maria Kordowicwicz, an associate professor in organisational behaviour at Nottingham university, told the Observer last week that the rise in quiet quitting was linked to a “noticeable fall in job satisfaction”. It’s International HR Day… wait, didn’t you know? Snooze while you Zoom: the new workplace craze I’m sure that feminine roar of approval I heard echoing around the city streets last Tuesday was the result of millions of women simultaneously reading Edwards’ piece on their smartphones but I suspect there’s more to it than this. Haven’t loads of white, middle-aged and over blokes been wise to this wheeze for decades already? Haven’t loads of men benefitted from a more self-seeking attitude to work where they do the bits they like and leave the rest for the junior staff to wipe up?” Do the minimum to keep things ticking over at work, think checking out instead of burning out.”Īnd there’s a quiet quitting gender gap, she points out: “This quiet quitting lark isn’t new at all. Spend weekends catching up with your emails? Stop. She writes: “Regularly take work home with you? Don’t. But for Katie Edwards, writing in the Independent, it’s connected with the huge work burden that has fallen on people since Covid and the advent of hybrid working.
It seems to have arisen from nowhere in the past week or so. I’ve decided not to do anything above and beyond what I was hired to do. A what, you may ask? Yes I could be a QQer.
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