"QUIET CONSTRAINT" - THE NEXT DUMB CORPORATE BUZZWORD!

[@postblitz]

Your employer is practicing quiet constraint with your salary.

[@LM-he7eb]

LMAO. Exactly!!!

[@timtams5283]

Employers Quiet constraint our bonuses even though this year we achieved a record breaking year

[@zwicker5585]

@@timtams5283well you see, the shareholders deserve what you earned 😂

[@silvieilieva]

It's not even quiet 😶

[@LaneJane23]

Or about those upcoming layoffs, they keep many secrets.

[@SwansingerLJG]

"You should always give your fellow coworkers any information you might have that may be useful to them." "Okay. Here's how much my salary is, let's compare - " "No, not like that."

[@MarjorieParaison]

Literally 🙃

[@michaelanderson654]

I share information that should be useful and get branded annoying as they ignore what I said and end up having to redo the job. Then they blame me for redoing the work but I have no control of them not reading the work order and not getting it signed off. I read the work order.

[@shiremistress]

I got told in a review once very specifically not to talk to my counterpart about my salary and reminded that our contracts said we weren't supposed to. My counterpart was told the same thing in his review. We both went "uh huh" and immediately compared notes (illegal clauses are not enforceable, handy information I learned at a previous job!). He had another meeting with them about his salary.

[@aaronhope8366]

After watching incompetent people around me get promoted because of my solutions, I realized that the return on investment was negative. Now I let them own their own incompetence, shining a light on the truth. I'm not holding back the company, I'm letting failing employees fail on their own merit.

[@coldcloakmusic6630]

Same here. My coworker is about to get promoted because of my help. Not doing it anymore lesson learned!

[@smania7575]

This is why I voice my opinion in larger meetings, ask my questions on public documents and Slack channels, and make sure to ask follow up questions in public areas. But, I'm WFH so it's easier to make this happen. I've helped show the incompetence of many people.

[@johnmcvicker6728]

I have a saying that aligns… “the world is not run by smart people, it is run by loud people”.

[@jpvoodoo5522]

This is true. I find, they don't want your opinion It's called keeping your mouth shut and doing your job.

[@YellowVoice-w9m]

Agreed. I do Tax work and I've seen worthless employees get promoted. Honestly, there are a lot of white males that should not have been given opportunity to be executives. If your Chinese you probably have to work harder with no assistance. I had not work with no staff. Why should I have to do more work than I'm already doing which was 70 hours a week. You get dumped on with no incentive to work harder and only executives have discretionary bonus. Problem is companies unfairly promote and compensate employees that deliver results.

[@tee228]

employee - **blinks** employers - workers are blinking faster and more often than ever on the job, a new trend called Quiet Sleeping and its costing companies billions of dollars

[@tee228]

@@vidyaWolf and then act like they doin you a favor "we just want to give you the tools you need to reach your goals" 😂

[@pandereodium]

That's hilarious 😆

[@nullvoidnill]

How long until they either start deducting pay or adding on time at the end ofthe day for 'blink breaks' ?

[@ReaIHuman]

You'd make a great manager.

[@richardspillers6282]

Oh you know they would if they thought even 1 person would buy it and write an article about it. ​@vidyaWolf

[@jermainemyrn19]

In my experience, showing signs of intelligence gets you fired.

[@JamesQMurphy]

Or burdened with extra work with no extra compensation

[@shogunkodogun]

“Never Outshine the master” - 48 laws of power

[@tee228]

💯managers value compliance over competence

[@AndrzejKantoch]

The only scenario in which I found myself being rewarded and appreciated for my initiative was a small company where my boss was also my co-worker.

[@OniNoFro]

Yup. I've been in environments where I made observations and put forward solutions months in advance, got shot down and told I was dead wrong, only for the same people to bring it up again as their idea later. And then take umbrage when I reminded departments of that observation (with email chains proving it).

[@DanTheCox]

Those who complain the most about quiet constraint are those who practice stealing others ideas the most and are frustrated not to be able to do that now.

[@marikothecheetah9342]

Word.

[@icalotdonthide2646]

The dummies are being exposed 😂😂😂

[@tonyclemens4213]

Stealing other people's ideas and taking credit

[@johnclayton5062]

You got that right! So glad I started my own business.

[@AllenLinnenJr]

That's a bullshit corpo-name for it. It's just knowledge hoarding. And people have been doing it since the dawn of time. There's power in secrets, go figure.

[@Fenomka]

I was called into my manager's office and given a talking to about giving knowledge without being asked for my input. I was then told by another employee that I made them (and supposedly others) uncomfortable, because of how confident I was in my knowledge of my job, because "You come off as a know-it-all". so I stopped sharing info unless asked, and otherwise kept my headphones on, to help reduce the chance I would do so accidentally. Then I got talked to because "you have your headphones on too much. you need to be a more active participant in the department."

[@artistradio]

Reminds me of that speech on the Barbie Movie. "You need to be smart, but not so smart that you make others feel dumb".

[@franswaweingartz2162]

Epic funny

[@OniNoFro]

Is your leadership or team structure heavily female? I'm just saying...

[@kirm8137]

LOL!!! Typical corporate twaddle. I can't wait to retire.

[@Fenomka]

@@kirm8137 agreed.

[@citydweller99]

quiet constraint is what got me to survive a PIP ( Performance Improvement Plan) and even get a raise once I survived it.. because I took a week off at the start of PIP and my co workers/manager couldn't do over half of my job.

[@Krlowanigu-mg6eg]

That says a lot about the manager who had no idea who is doing what, how much it takes and judging how much can squeez out of you. Talking manager that cant do the work himself.

[@fnunez]

Getting taken for granted is a huge risk, especially if you're the kind of person who doesn't like blowing their own trumpet. Do not be the guy in the corner who quietly does his work, make sure your boss knows about every little thing you do. Just making sure I cc'd the right people in emails took me from a frustrated peon to a promotion in about a year.

[@johnmcvicker6728]

@@Krlowanigu-mg6egi have usually worked for managers who mainly work bullet point lists and go to meetings all day. Rarely have I worked with a manager in IT who could even log into the systems we manage.

[@steverich136]

Nice 👍 strategy

[@someguy5977]

I was stressed out from doing a lot of troublesome paperwork, so i called in sick two days in a row. When I came back, my co-worker told me right away that they were just getting slammed by the troublesome paperwork and the manager was pressuring everyone to take a share of it. I just nodded and said, "Really?". I thought to myself, "I guess nobody even notices what I do around here." In retrospect, I think my manager knew but he low-key hated me.

[@baconcerberus]

I can solve everyone’s problems, increase revenue, save the company a large amount of money and I would still get the same minuscule amount of pay raise that doesn’t match inflation.

[@r.c.8268]

HR: we could trow a pizza party (by party 2 x 9.99 pizzas) in friday in honor to you, that is enough

[@hackmedia7755]

I want to start a profit-sharing company to help people retire early so they can spend time with their family. Lifes too short for BS and greedy corporations.

[@UNMEASURED100]

You guys getting raise?

[@aluisious]

@@hackmedia7755 You can do better than profit sharing. Make it a coop where they have ownership and control.

[@ownytony]

​@@r.c.8268 you also get to choose the 2 toppings per pizza

[@joshuawesteros5345]

I was a medic trainee, in the back of the ambulance. The paramedic driver almost hit a concrete light post thing. I holler “whoa man, bout to hit this”. He bitched and complained, told me not to tell him how to do this job. Next night, same exact place and he backs right into it “BAM!” Then he complained why I didn’t tell him. There ya go, quiet constraint. 😅

[@marikothecheetah9342]

damned if you do, damned if you don't There's no win with such people. The good, classic IRC *ignore* is the only way to go.

[@joshuawesteros5345]

Oh he was an asshole dude. Didn’t learn shit training with him. Meanwhile other medics were so cool they’d let us practice putting IVs in them.

[@TKUltra971]

Oh sweet Jesus, Office Law of the Land: 101. Do NOT volunteer information. If its not in your benefit? Say nothing, do nothing. How many times did a younger me solve problems or help others only to receive no credit or have that person's name and their "amazing talent" thrown up in my face during a 1:1 review?

[@ogvicodinmuncher]

I have had a boss say no to my idea and then implement it 6 months later and completely take credit for it.

[@gabrielpowers766]

@@ogvicodinmuncher Me too! They took my idea for a procedure, copied it exactly but changed the name of it, and made it official and some manager got praised. I never helped again.

[@armandolimon7465]

Gravitas is an Indian propaganda website. Fluke didn't even vet it first. He just complains before doing research. Of course he didn't hear of this term before. Indians made it up!

[@nic_cage]

Last week I helped a "Senior" engineer and they of course didn't mention me and took all the credit. From now on they are on their own. I literally copy/pasted code in a Slack DM chat 🤷‍♂

[@DarkbutNotsinister]

The moment I saw MY spreadsheet on a screen & someone else taking the credit is the moment my soul died. And why was I in my 40s when someone explained “Not my circus, not my monkeys” to me???

[@AuroraPaintBrush4444]

Ah yes, the adult version of "let me cheat on your test! I promise to pay you!" Then throw them under the bus when both of you fail the test.

[@nikaszekeval6850]

More like “group” projects in school. Where three people mostly coast on the work of the one person who cares about the class or their grade

[@gmirsky1962]

I guess I practiced "Quiet Constraint" when I grew tired of being the human Google at work and just started saying "I don't know" to co-workers and managers too lazy to do their jobs.

[@Perfidion]

RTFM has become "Google it!" I mean, I'll help someone if I've known them long enough to know they're not a conniving, manipulative ethical vacuum, otherwise they're on their own.

[@tetee6789]

My colleague asks questions that we were supposed to know 10 months ago. He started same time as me, and he still asks the most basic questions. Not to mention he could search the previous conversations where he would find the answer

[@Krlowanigu-mg6eg]

He, she exploits you and wastes your time. It will impact your performance. It can be malevolent. Do not fall for it.

[@PaperParade]

I am unfortunately the idiot that asks questions all the time, that I should know the answer to. I have pretty bad ADHD and anxiety that effects my memory. The worst things are in my personal life, the more I struggle. It’s not always something nefarious or that people are lazy.

[@aluisious]

@@PaperParade No, you are lazy. Write things down and search your notes before you ask people.

[@TheGhostofAbigailMills]

Quiet quit, quiet constraint, quiet this, quiet that .... the nerve of these corporate buzzwords to have quiet ANYTHING as a term, WHEN THEY NEVER SHUT UP.

[@Roescoe]

Quiet journalism. An impossible behavior.

[@daviddickey9832]

Also because saying a lot of nothing is what they get paid way too much to do. Without nepotism where would we be after all?

[@Roescoe]

@@daviddickey9832 Well when you find out nearly every media corporation is in a situation like Jeff Bezos and The Washington Post, you have to consider... Hmm maybe these guys aren't all that interested in being truthful.

[@commentinglife6175]

No, they keep calling it quiet cause they are MAD at it! They use the term quiet cause obviously it would never describe these goody-two-shoes!

[@m16dude967]

why don't they start loud paying their taxes since running their mouth is all they're good at.

[@fcharrua]

It's funny: You educate yourself in order to be hired for your skills and knowledge, then learn that it's not what you know but who you know. This is the chickens coming home to roost: Companies are now run by people who know people, and apparently, you are now responsible for the fact that they don't know their shit.

[@UNMEASURED100]

Exactly, people are getting hired by reference not by the actual skill set needed, that's why these companies are doing stupid things.

[@Krlowanigu-mg6eg]

THIS! And more HR BS please!

[@ShayPatrickCormacTHEHUNTER]

In a world where job postings get 5000 applicants...what did you expect lol? Reference cuts to the chace directly.

[@wyzer9]

​@@ShayPatrickCormacTHEHUNTER Well, if you read the comment again, you'd _"expect"_ those who choose employees to 1) know the business for which they're hiring and 2) know the employees they're hiring are _ACTUALLY_ capable. Upper management often seems too lazy to separate those two idea(l)s, so they think mashing them into "know who you hire" is a work-around. It's not. It's actually called nepotism.

[@ShayPatrickCormacTHEHUNTER]

@@wyzer9 youd expect that if you were naive. If you were realistic, youd know that most managers and what not are beyond incompetent. Thats because leaders are born, not taucht lol.

[@cniht]

This is the best 'buzz phrase' that I enjoy. "Work your wage'. The practical application of this means productivity needs to drop at least by another 20% in corporate America.

[@ForgottenKnight1]

More corporate BS. This is why I switched to contracting - you seldom have to deal with this insanity.

[@TheCarnivoreSoprano]

Any advice on how to do that

[@asadb1990]

​@TheCarnivoreSoprano its easy you can ask your employer for this. But be careful firstly you lose benefits and unemployment and have to put aside your own taxes. So ask for tons of money to offset these expenses. But terrible employers will exploit you by working you like an employee.

[@ericcarson342]

Contracting and freelancing seem like the way to go.

[@icecreamman1337]

i noticed it more as a contractor (people from different vendors witholding info to improve their job security)

[@armandolimon7465]

No, Joshua Fluke didn't vet an India propaganda website. He needs vet things first before he complains.

[@mintoo2cool]

I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. . . . corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed.” -U.S. President Abraham Lincoln, Nov. 21, 1864 (letter to Col. William F. Elkins)

[@althunder4269]

A lot of managers don't want to hear other's ideas. If they didn't think of it themselves they aren't interested.

[@Aaron-v9z]

Or they'll shoot it down only to repackage it as their own idea.

[@Juan_rivera]

Or claim your idea for their own

[@Wahinies]

My director has done this a few times where I am literally screensharing, showing them how to do what they are so obsessed about, and they decline to follow my process then circle around later and do exactly what I explained as if it were common knowledge. Maddening.

[@mdude7778]

I worked a contract gig for a small bank. Boss had already assumed that there was no way to interface with an old system. I did not practice quiet constraint, instead I wrote an interface. Pissed him off so bad, he took me off the project and gave me a grunt work task. I walked.

[@Krlowanigu-mg6eg]

Real reason: he pushed the idea to outsource the resolution to his brother in law company, to pay with company money so they could share the profit and then you came and cut in between! People at managerial position tell you, the working bee, to think about company profit but they always think only about their personal profit. Sometimes it is the same (company, personal) sometimes not.

[@chiplangowski3298]

@@Krlowanigu-mg6eg - This! Had this exact same thing happen to me. I had written an application (CMDB, inventory management, resource allocation, rights management) that was very targeted to our company and did exactly what we needed. A new IT Director came in and threw it all out the window and replaced it with a commercial product and professional services (over $250k per year) that never did 75% of what the old, home-grown app did. But that IT Director got lots of expensive meals for he and his wife, football tickets, golf outings, comp-ed conferences and hotel rooms in Las Vegas, etc. - PLUS a promotion to Senior Director out of it. He spent all his time selling the senior execs on his accomplishments without telling them that he trashed the free solution that had been in use for years.

[@steverich136]

He was probably getting a kickback from a software vendor with a new and expensive solution. You ruined his grift.

[@TKnuckles333]

I’m a GenX who loves GenZ! Why? GenZ is giving the middle finger and doing all the other things against corporate America that I’ve been doing for the last 25 years! With almost zero support from my fellow Xers. I love GenZ! Thank you so much! I now have an entire generation supporting me! 🥰

[@PettyLabelle70]

I agree, I've been cheering them on myself. However, I told my employer straight up that im not teaching my secret to anyone. im not training anyone, and i never want to be a manager!!

[@DarkbutNotsinister]

I’ve been doing these things for years & I would get fired for “insubordination”.

[@chookitty5219]

We are having a "quiet" revolution

[@Chucs_Padida]

Millenial that supports gen z as well.

[@user-hf2dr7sh4y]

working with toxic people that throw you under the bus to the boss are the reason for "quiet constraint". These toxic people are at the office, as much as they are at the zoom call, but they just want to attack the work from home model because bosses want to justify their destruction of the environment and your communities health for their profit, and at your cost of transportation.

[@LadyStudio1]

I learned early on in my career to not "help" anyone because "You're trying to embarass them," "you're stepping on their toes," "you're threatening their job security" or they get jealous and the sabotage begins. Ugh but I'm supposed to ignore all that and help them now??? Lol

[@adamd9166]

For real, you can't win. Always give less than needed and smile, nod, and just do your job.

[@Lzzeecrkrs]

They don’t want help. If they ask how to copy and paste text, I say highlight it and use Ctrl +c and Ctrl+v to paste, I get “No, you don’t know what you are talking about” and they spend hours looking it up, getting frustrated because what they find confirms what I said. Then I am a show off. No, I want people to get stuff done in a timely manner, and using reasonable shortcuts helps. If they don’t get it done, it gets laid on me. I am all for abolishing hourly wages in some workplaces and paying people by the job. Some people would suddenly become better employees if they got real points for jobs done accurately and quickly. Seriously, why am I being paid same hourly wage as Gina if she is getting half the work or less accomplished? I have seen people take all day doing a simple task, and on occasion a flat fee is offered for accomplishing a task, and suddenly they have speed….

[@mreese8764]

Help is also taken for granted. Like a calculator, hammer or other tool. If it was easy for you (or rather for them) it's not worth anything to the helped one. If it works smoothly they don't even see why and just expect it to work like that forever without any reward for you.

[@jackcarraway4707]

Surprised Josh didn't make a video on the Wells Fargo employee who died at work or this one guy who was abandoned on a mountain during a team building activity.

[@personnesenki4521]

The worst thing with the WF employee is she had no one outside of work who would notice that she never made it home. :( The abandoned employee in CO was a case of straight up attempted murder.

[@brendabennettsgxcoach7747]

YES PLEASE! Both!

[@JDOS911]

This is what happens when companies push biillshit like "forced ranking." If I'm being pitted against my teammates and inevitably 5-15% of us will be fired, oh sorry, "recalibrated" at the end of the year, why in the hell would I help anyone? "Figure it out on your own, I got bills to pay." is the level of collaboration they're incentivizing.

[@wbay3848]

I do this specifically for this reason. Lol.

[@personnesenki4521]

It's sad how the jerk who came up with this, the late, awful Jack Welsh, whose grave should be a pit toilet, is lionized and held up as a great CEO. Ironically enough the company he led now no longer exists as a legal entity.

[@JPs-q1o]

"Someone who doesn't help out a colleague or sabotages a team member is bound to be branded as unprofessional" "That's a nice story, but how come those are the exact people who end up being promoted?" *_SO_* *_TRUE_* 🤣 🤣 🤣

[@xrmitch]

Employees stop sharing when the offshore team starts muttering about “KT” - Knowledge Transfer. First, they badger you to tell them everything you know. Complaining to your boss that you “won’t share” if you don’t comply. Then they copy your work and demo it as their own. Finally, they tell your boss “see, we can do it too - and for less.” Start packing at that point. The complaint about “quiet constraining” is just another tactic to manipulate bosses into making engineers hand over their knowledge so they can be replaced.

[@someguy5977]

Talking about India I see. I've had the misfortune of getting to know them in the medical care environment.

[@xrmitch]

It gets even weirder. Just yesterday I agreed to let an agency submit me for a contract. Then I get an automated email asking me to confirm that they can submit me. Here’s the kicker: it was a completely different company and req! A bait and switch! There was a whole block in the switched req titled “Collaboration”. Bullet points about mentoring, training, cross cultural promotion - and I think it was to work as a contract lead in one those offshore shops that setup an office in the US! Trying a new way to trick me into training our replacements??? WTF??? I told the agency “pass”

[@Firepowered]

The silver lining when that happens is that eventually the skilled workers are all driven away and the company is left with only the incompetent outsource workers trying to pick up the slack. Which they predictably cannot do, so the company either wises up or goes under.

[@HaggisMuncher-69-420]

@@someguy5977 me too in the telecoms industry but they were eye wateringly USELESS and so we dropped them lol

[@zornslemon]

I’ve been doing this my entire career. People usually don’t appreciate your input anyway. Also, if you know things that other people don’t then you’re more valuable, it’s not pretty but it’s the truth.

[@TheTW1]

Wow, I know a bunch of CEOs who "quiet constraint" some key info about upcoming layoffs. Good thing we learned from the best!

[@davidmonaghan1896]

Why doesn't HR volunteer information on employees rights and benefits? Hmm smarmy buzzword TV Hostess?

[@Teixas666]

don't delude yourself inot thinknig HR exists for the benefit of the employee, HE is there to protect the interests of the company and to employ the snakes so they dont meddle in the actual useful stuff.

[@beigenegress2979]

@@Teixas666 Yep! 👍

[@timah9420]

Maybe they mean that young people have figured out that if they don't want to do extra work they aren't paid for, the best solution is to keep quiet. If I am the smart one, everyone will come to me with their problems. So it's better to play dumb because you're paid to do the job, and not for saving their sinking ship of a company.

[@melaningoddess7310]

Information is valuable, so if I'm not getting paid adequately for the knowledge and information I already have, I'm not volunteering information for free. In the past, when I showed I was smarter and could do more than what I was paid to do, I was given more work at the same pay and no promotions. I learned really quickly to do the bare minimum of what I was paid to do and clock out on time to enjoy my freedom outside of work.

[@dra911]

Let's get this straight: Businesses will hand this fool $15k a pop to tell them a big nothing, but can't figure out why employees aren't going "above and beyond" anymore. At this point, the jokes are writing themselves. They'd rather burn cash than treat employees with respect.

[@user-zr6pl6nb6z]

The place I work at has a lot of lazy managers, who in turn defend the lazy employees. The hard workers get no recognition.

[@dra911]

Sounds like my last corporate workplace. Did the lazy ones get extra points for repeating corpo-speak as well? I saw some people build entire career paths by just repeating what upper management wanted to hear.

[@user-zr6pl6nb6z]

@@dra911 Yeah, I've been in places like that but this place is more into sucking up to the person.

[@Canbutcant]

I'm not obligated to offer info to anyone beyond my job description, if my coworkers doesn't have information. The employer is solely responsible.

[@RayAndrewsDev]

It's (almost) funny how the traits they're complaining about in employees are what they expect in executives

[@YellowVoice-w9m]

I'm chinese-American....I've worked for fortune 100 companies. It's worse if your a minority seeing Below average white employees get compensated and rewarded. Showing how smart you are and problem solving and delivering value to a company only gets you fired if your chinese. Your showing up management. Better just to let them fail.

[@ravenking5558]

I know the solution: More Meetings

[@bluesun2001]

😂😂😂

[@iceman9678]

Perfect!

[@PaulTB-i6k]

Also, let's add more vice presidents to the company: VPs of BS, VP of solving problems created by VPs of BS, VP of communicating between VPs and other VPs. Also, let's lay off more workers who do the actual work, LOL

[@Infinitespace04]

I got in trouble a couple times for trying to help and was literally told "nobody likes a know it all." I've learned that knowledge is perceived as a threat to others due to their own incompetence. I've learned that sharing knowledge is detrimental to my progess. Ive learned that keeping my mouth shut prevents harm to my career.

[@BruceNJeffAreMyFlies]

People get pathetic when they feel threatened.

[@UhrBushaltestelle]

That's how capitalism works 💁. Your knowledge might put people out of work

[@adamp6320]

So much push for return to office lately. They want to track people at PwC UK at all times. Help us Joshua Fluke. You're our only hope.

[@richandrews4488]

Obi Wan Flukobi…

[@done.6191]

Most managers have to be able to justify their mostly useless roles. All managers should be team leads that can actually do the work, and if you can't, you shouldn't be managing people that can do it.

[@Krlowanigu-mg6eg]

I agree, poliferation of those managers that only know talking is beyond limit. No merit based promos!

[@pwnDonkey]

RTO = they want you to voluntarily leave the company before the rug pull and the severance packages

[@jidec3165]

First of all we all know companies aren’t loyal and don’t give a F about their employees. That being said, you are under no obligation to share any knowledge you have that your employer did not invest in for you to gain or hasn’t documented a clear pathway to promotion for being very knowledgeable or for your value. If you go around sharing information you worked your behind off to get for free at your job. You’ll end up training someone’s relative who will eventually become your manager and when you try to push back you’ll be shown the door. Be selfish always when it comes to your employers!!!!!

[@LanceJapan]

Boss says "Your success is my success" which means he will steal your ideas and get a promotion and cut you right out so he never gets discovered as a plagiarist. "Tell them nothing and lead them nowhere" and keep them dependent on your skills, don't throw away your edge in the Co.

[@Krlowanigu-mg6eg]

I feel you. Usual corpo predatory useless blah blah manager.

[@princessmarlena1359]

“Get out there and earn more money for the company, so I can buy another luxury car/yacht/vacation home!”

[@lizbecker1677]

How about using quiet constraint when you've been learning new skills, taking on more responsibility and having mentoring sessions with your boss and when that promotion finally opens up, your boss says, "sorry. We decided to hire someone from outside because I changed the job requirements. Oh, and you have to train this person." The boss practiced quiet constraint, and so did I when I left out some important job specifics while training the new hire who supposedly knew more than me. Corporate life sucks.

[@AK-47ISTHEWAY]

Working for yourself is the only option. So glad I don't have to deal with this corporate nonsense anymore.

[@sagittariushenanigansss]

Good for you! I don’t blame you. I hope more people become self employed, their own boss, and hell even get themselves a good side hustle instead of setting with the fooliness around these 9-5 jobs.

[@ericcarson342]

Can't take this anymore.

[@UXtatic]

They're officially the definition of 'clusterf**k'.

[@NeighborhoodWatchMann]

What do you do now

[@aluisious]

No, organizing labor in your workplace is another option.

[@strugglinghustler]

My department had no documentation for anything. I created a knowledge base from scratch and loaded it with everything we would ever need to know to do any of the numerous aspects of our job. All my colleagues proceeded to get promoted except me. Insert "never again" meme here.

[@UhrBushaltestelle]

You did yourself 💁.

[@IanLaurequez03]

Corporates would rather waste millions of dollars to publish an article or news gaslighting people that the employees are the problem than actually increasing employees' salaries😂

[@dhenderson1810]

How much do you want your salary increased by?

[@IanLaurequez03]

@@dhenderson1810 500k a year.

[@orga7777]

@@dhenderson1810 People don't understand basic market economics, supply and demand, or what value is. There is no point in asking them that question.

[@dhenderson1810]

@@orga7777 I ask it to trip them, as people always overvalue what they think they deserve. It is to expose the entitled. I knew the guy wouldn't answer and it proved my point (and yours).

[@IanLaurequez03]

@@dhenderson1810 I am well aware there are people out there who were asking out of pocket salaries which cross their careers' pay grade and I am damn sure people aren't dumb enough to reject or call out those types of people easily. Although of course we are talking about corporations and we are in goofy ass times where corporates would rather spend millions of dollars on useless stuffs like mandatory "fun" and paying media to villainize the workforce than actually paying workers salary that will actually compete against bills and a bit ahead of inflation, investing on things that will level the ground between business and the workforce, and finding solutions that will benefit both sides. TL;DR: If price of living rises, so as our salaries. And to answer the salary question, 300k a year for a game developer job😎

[@project9701]

Once upon a time, quiet constraint was called "job security."

[@althunder4269]

If my managers were more open and welcoming I'd share info with them. But they keep me in the dark about things so it's vice versa.

[@NestalgiaGamer]

63% of quiet constrainers are men and 57% are women and that equals 120% of quiet constraining!! It's out of control.

[@Krlowanigu-mg6eg]

And you have forgotten about 57 genders in the statistics :) It can be beyond 300%. Indian calculations, bulletproof.

[@Boomercon3000]

😂

[@arvdosal]

Hahahaja

[@Wahinies]

100% hilarious 😅

[@commentinglife6175]

That's great. I also figured men were more likely to stay quiet cause who needs HR whining that the guy is "mansplaining" to the women. Nah, just gonna keep quiet over here.

[@whydoubt]

And y'all remember: If your company all of a sudden starts pressing you to document all your processes, chances are they're looking to replace you.

[@tawnygirl2000]

That’s why you leave steps out

[@RealBullbear]

@@tawnygirl2000or just dont do it and call in sick. Whats the worst that can happen, they replace you? 🤣

[@ShalowRecord]

Say that you’re on it and start looking for another job instead

[@vampygds]

Hey, it's called "Risk-Reductuon" 😂

[@theravenousrabbit3671]

@@tawnygirl2000 Nah, you just write down everything incorrectly.

[@All0Mighty0Power]

I was informed by a toxic co-manager I worked with that there are issues in her department that need fixing them not my business to fix it. Issue is when her department struggled it directly affected mine, and I knew how to fix nearly every common issue that would arise in her department and she didn't, like calibrating her lab machines, teaching her new employees (which she always had at-least 3 new one a week cause I swear 60% of her employees would quit in the first month because of her.), and a lot other common shit that would need maintenance or repairs that she didn't know how to do or who to contact about doing it. Hell she even sent stupid emails to the whole building saying no one is allowed to touch and calibrate the lab equipment except her or they be reported by her. Then not even a week later her whole department falling to shit because an essentially piece of equipment broke and she didn't know how to fix it, she literally forced my supervisor to threaten me to fix it for her.

[@Jebbis]

The employee who sabotages a team member will have management going "I'd like to move us right along to a Peter Gibbons. Now we had a chance to meet this young man, and boy that's just a straight shooter with upper management written all over him."

[@NoodlesExtraMSG]

pc load letter?

[@Jebbis]

@@NoodlesExtraMSGcorporate accounts payable, Nina speaking. Just a moment. Corporate accounts payable, Nina speaking. Just a moment. Corporate accounts payable, Nina speaking. Just a moment.

[@lauracoutinho5478]

Unless it's your job to hold people's hands to ensure they are more efficient, then it really isn't up to you to ensure they succeed. That's what middle management is supposed to be doing!

[@tadroid3858]

Hilarious! Knowledge is money. If they aren't paying to fix a problem, then I'm not offering solutions. It's also funny that the authoritarian Indian woman is scolding that portion of the audience who may have been guilty of this new corporate malfeasance. Gen Z understands time and they understand its value.

[@Krlowanigu-mg6eg]

You know, european or u.s. worker do not want to transition to overseas "specialists" as easily and smoothly as they would expect. In my ex company they first hired ppl from her country to help us. Meanwhile asked to put the procedures in written like manuals to follow for newcommers. Then they started to help. At the very end of my staying there they were pushing most part of their work on us, while the credit went for them. Somebody higher forced mercilessly the idea of transitioning. At the very end of my staying there i had a team leader but every rajesh or srakesh at any given moment could add me more work but the worst was cleaing the mess after them "helping". They didnt transition so far only because at a crucial moment about half best ppl resigned at once. This is why she complains about quitet knowledge sharing. Never again.

[@100xasd]

Actually back in the day it was enough that you worked 5 days a week and most of it was just sitting around. It was enough for your employer and everyone was happy with the results. Terms like "quiet quitting" and "constraint" did not even exist 5 years ago, which says quite a lot about how rapidly everything has changed.

[@EleroyGreen]

You know what really would encourage people's collaboration and knowledge sharing? Letting them fkcng breathe and do their jobs in the environments that suit them best so that they have energy to think about resolving the issues in the most optimal way.

[@LimewirePirate]

Seems like they want coworkers to micromanage one another. No thanks.

[@princessmarlena1359]

Unfortunately, the kiss a** coworkers live for this.

[@crytkryssus9851]

lol, it's "why didn't you tell me." where if you do, they're going to be like "oh so you think you can do my job better than me?"

[@madmerlot841]

I practice quiet constraining to avoid increasing my workload.

[@fabricemichel7336]

Exactly!!!

[@pws354_8]

Then.... YOU DON'T GET A RAISE OR A PROMOTION ANYWAYS! Because you are only rewarded a bigger shovel for digging better than everyone else, not a break, not a promotion, and only a pizza party because management is truly out of touch thinking it would make you or any other employee feel better as a celebration for being a valuable employee.

[@harambetidepod1451]

The last time i volunteered the little information i had i became the de facto expert and was assigned all those tickets without additional compensation.

[@85jongo]

Josh, I love how you continue you to cover these endless 'corporate buzzwords' brought to us by our corporate media with their corporate sponsors. All of these buzzwords just describe behaviors as old as human behavior itself. 'Quiet quitting' is just doing what the job requires (no more, no less). 'Quiet constraint' is just people hoarding what they know to their own advantage whether they work at the top, bottom, or anywhere in between. Nothing new here except repackaging as a moronic buzzword. FYI, going on a walk without your phone and just walking has now been dubbed 'silent walking.'

[@WakkoKakko]

I swear, some of these corporate buzzwords were invented by sinecured academics seeking to justify their make-work positions.

[@ronmackinnon9374]

@@WakkoKakko Corporate newsreaders siding with management -- who'd'a seen that coming?

[@Eatbutternow]

Over the course of my working life if I share information or ideas like they say I should in this video it goes one of two ways. 1. My boss or co-workers completely ignores what I tell them and then blames me for the consequences that could have been avoided if they just listened to me. 2. Someone else takes credit for my ideas or hard work and it helps their career while doing nothing for me except now I have to deal with the person who stole my work giving me more work to do so they can try to seal credit again. After over 20 years of only experiencing that I’ve learned to just keep my mouth shut.

[@adamswierczynski]

It is the lead's job to educate the team, the supervisor's job to educate the leads, the manager's job to educate the supervisors. Wanting the benefits of a bottom up hierarchy while enforcing a top down hierarchy is a losing strategy.

[@shiremistress]

I "quietly constrained" information at my last job because trying to bring attention to problems got me labelled as "difficult". When I was proved right, I was criticized for not noticing the problem. Pointing out that I HAD brought it to their attention, and PROVING it, just got denials and claims not to remember. Effort is punished, truth is ignored. Why bother? All that matters is who the boss decides they like, and it wasn't me.

[@gulli72]

Imagine forcing your employees through performance reviews every couple of months, so you can fire and replace the bottom 10 percent, and then being shocked when they no longer share performance intel.

[@dallasoleary187]

Employees born between 1997 and 2012. That damned 12 year old never tells me ANYTHING.

[@TonyMoze]

Why is everyone so QUIET these days? So much silence we should be called the SILENT GENERATION, version 2.0 📌

[@g1eagle]

When I tried to share knowledge at my job, I was told that i was acting as a know it all. Even though I gave them the answer they eventually ended on. So I gave you the info, you blew me off, then called me a know it all, only to end on the solution I gave you. But I got no thanks.

[@tarinvernon7007]

imagen being blamed for NOT being asked. Im sorry, my crystal ball is not working, must be the bad vibes from an UNKNOWN SOURCE.

[@hackmedia7755]

they want dumb obedient wage slaves. join or start an employee-owned company instead. This system is broken.

[@Krlowanigu-mg6eg]

Yesss, the system is broken. Lets hire more HR starrrs :)

[@skyranger1366]

Knowledge becomes more valuable when less people that can acess it

[@tinad8561]

If your employer relies on the dissemination of “tribal knowledge” rather than having processes in place for knowledge capture and exchange, the employer’s the problem, not you.

[@aluisious]

For 3 years I thought my job was chill, then the old manager got fired and the new guy is trying to throw his weight around. Now they're telling me to use PTO because I can't travel due to a medical appointment next week and they can't find work for me locally. They never did this before. The best idea these managers can come up with is to squeeze the workers harder and harder. They've got nothing better. They don't know how to get more revenue, they don't know how to make logistics more efficient, and they won't even listen if you tell them how because they're over their heads too. I only worked at this place because it was chill, and I thought of trying to organize a union in my division, but I thought: hey this is pretty good, why rock the boat? But now they're rocking the boat because they can't think of anything better to do. So maybe there's nothing to lose now.

[@Krlowanigu-mg6eg]

That is why they take less intelligent than you yes man as the man in the middle. When higher managers press as always for more profit, the yes man questioned " can you make 150% out of this process" will always reply "yes!". Then comes to the team and starts bragging about low performance and wants 200% out of you 150% for what they were asked for and 50% more for they privite success as a team leader. It is so easy to always ask for more.

[@rabokarabekian409]

People with power will always resent those from whom their power derives. There's no business like show business.

[@Balto678]

For every boundary that employees have the right to practice, there's a corporate buzzword calling it something bad. "You told your boss about a problem over and over before it would become a problem, and now that it is a problem exploding in your boss's face, you don't offer to help anymore? That's quiet constraint, and you should be terminated! People just don't want to work these days!"

[@PaulTB-i6k]

Never volunteer to share any knowledge at work. If you are asked to, never share everything. Your company is not your friend . Most of them can usually fire you at will (here in the U.S.) If you are the only person who knows how to do certain tasks, it is better for your job security. Even if your company is still stupid enough to terminate your employment, then, at very least, they will suffer more for doing it.

[@microsoul669]

What's next? When the employees refuse to eat at the company's cafeteria, will they call it quiet fasting?

[@dejikimoritzgztyuixc7227]

Already started practicing that when a disgusting meal of burger and fries is $7 at my old job's cafeteria!

[@mysticmeadowshomestead6209]

I have received many awards, on-the-spot awards, high dollar one time awards, corporate awards, had parties thrown for me to celebrate outstanding performance, letters of recommendation, letters of commendation for me. But nearly every job review was "barely meets expectations." Because they must give high marks to dei employees and are not allowed to give all employees high ratings.

[@SEDAZ01]

Nothing new here its called protecting your job. If you share your knowledege you will be replaced with a cheaper worker.

[@yvonnes7412]

😂😂😂 Thank you for roasting this ridiculousness 😂😂😂😂 brilliant critical thinking 🎉 When I got my MBA in 2012, we learned MANAGEMENT is responsible for fostering a collaborative work environment, incentivizing team success, creating a safe workspace for sharing, rewarding employees for contributions… THESE are real steps that managers have known for decades (or centuries?) to encourage collaboration. “Quiet constraint” is not new-it’s as old as Toxic Work Environments! In any toxic work environment, people shut down. It’s basic human nature. The idea that these managers go to workshops to learn centuries-old management principles repackaged to blame employees as a “new” problem is ridiculous.

[@AlysaAlysaBolissaBananaFannaFe]

👏🏻 Yes! They can't see it, though, because they lack empathy and imagination. Classic blame-shifting.

[@Olliemets]

Upper managements "Quiet Constraint" LOL. Yup, in my corporate career I saw Directors and VPs sit on information and refer to pretty innocuous stuff in hushed tones and "need to know" bullshit. It was all about power, of lording it over there subordinates. Petty tyrants. Love this channel as a retiree, out of the game 7 years sipping my coffee every morning and enjoying your content. So happy to be rid of these corporate HR morons.

[@SolIgnisDivine]

What happens if they identify you know about that topic, and from then on, that is added to your current obligations? Without payment of course. This is a VERY BIG problem in developing countries. Like mine.

[@hijinks21]

India is a strange place to work.. I'm in tech and know a lot of people in India and a lot of the places are everything wrong with work but 10x worse and more intense. They expect you to basically live with your team. A guy i know has mandatory team events every week on a Saturday for team building. This woman is always just playing the game of the status quo

[@npcfigureathletedawnirish691]

How was the indoor plumbing?

[@ShitWrangler]

@@npcfigureathletedawnirish691 the shits

[@hayuseen6683]

Yikes

[@steverich136]

People do what they perceive to be in their best interests. If the corporate structure rewards ruthless cut-throat behavior to advance like taking credit for others accomplishments and promoting based on winning popularity contest or ass kissing instead of job performance, then an incentive is created to hold back information and methods that will just aid your ruthless competitor to blast past you. This is a corporate culture problem.

[@themikead99]

I have a new one. Loud Managing. Where your middle managers are so fucking bossy no one wants to talk to them leading to "quiet constraint" because who wants to talk to them?

[@douglasstrother6584]

I'm not a manager, but channeling my inner Sam Kinison on Monday might be fun.

[@YellowVoice-w9m]

There is no incentive to help upper management. Bonuses and compensation are discretionary for lower level employees which means you get nothing. I've out perform my boss and I got fired. Its a shytshow in most companies.

[@sirhcmi3]

Did my coworker just get promoted based on the last information I shared? If you want it done right, ask the person who knows how to do it to… do it! 😂

[@daveblackman816]

So basically, how dare you be a SME?? Or the employees could just…ask the SME questions. Why is that so hard?

[@NewSamsung-b1q]

Well, after seeing that hundreds of thousands of Migrants found jobs while native born American Citizens lost 1.3 Million jobs in One Month, it looks to me like corporations will be penalizing American Citizens for not training their illegal migrant replacements. The only way Americans can fight back against this replacement is to not train their replacements. I think this is exactly what Quiet Restraint is actually about.

[@danetastic1]

Everyone pretty much nailed it so far in the comments. My two cents is that people are sick and tired of their ideas getting other people promoted while they’re held back all the while the company makes more money while their compensation stays the same. There. I’ve shared my unsolicited input. No one can accuse me of quiet constraint.

[@KindredEmotions]

God forbid we leverage information to keep our jobs during times of unemployment.

[@trumpetbob15]

I love how this news reporter says remote work is an issue for sharing knowledge. Interesting. Cause I mean, that lady ain't speaking to me face to face! So, does that mean she is incompetent in HER JOB of providing information regarding the news? Or, is it possible, maybe, just maybe, that one can use communication tools (such as the camera she was filmed with) to share information with others successfully?

[@mrscreamer379]

Keeping all my knowledge to myself is how I keep my job and know a company depends upon me.

[@headexplode2741]

6:57 "in order to climb your corporate boss" 😂

[@AAjax]

My CEO is quiet constraining which parts of the company they're planning to downsize. Sabotaging the workers.

[@ShadowRulah]

I used my background with databases to export data from a database into excel and save extremely busy people about 4 hours per person per week of manual data entry. My income was unchanged and I was let go a few weeks later when the virus hit.

[@eltooyo2]

"'It's tough to have a healthy team when people are looking out for themselves and not the team or the company as a a whole.''" - Chris Holter, Career & Workplace "Expert" "Chris, have you ever met a CEO or the board they report to...?" - Joshua Fluke, Genuine Career & Workplace Expert EXACTLY! You're doing God's Work, Joshua!

[@althunder4269]

Then there's the managers who don't share information with their employees.

[@sparty837]

The work place is a competitive place and there is two ways to move up, you excel or your peers fail. Sorry constraining info is done all the time. Also, some employees use information to stick a knife in your back. The real world beats HR every time.

[@Teixas666]

"quiet constraint" makes complete sense for an employee why should i help someone if they arent requesting it? if you are not competent at your position, unless it directly impacts me...tough sht, i will hel pfor the low cost of the salary of the person's im doing the job for. at best i get nothing out of it, at worse, they act like the snakes a lot of "colleagues" are and throw you under the bus or snipe you out of career progression based on YOUR work or even get you fired if they fck it up.

[@MrSubsound90]

This news agency seems like day care for adults if this is the quality of their stories. Blaming workers for not being mind readers or handling internal business information confidentially is next level stupidity. It might be "beneficial" to them...but should they have it? Can they understand it? How will they use it? This is important!

[@monterreymxisfun3627]

The old school word for this is information hoarding. There are some who take it to the next level and deliberately give others at work false information.

[@Teixas666]

i'm not dow nfor giving false information, but if i possess knowledge that is vaulable to an employer, i WILL charge for it. it's nonsensical to not do this as a business decision.

[@orga7777]

@@Teixas666 That is smart. Don't do anything for free. If you know more than the other people you work with, you SHOULD use that to your advantage. That is how you get ahead.

[@monterreymxisfun3627]

@@Teixas666 The Open Source mentality applies to this. I will share knowledge by putting it on a public repository first, then telling the company about it so they can't claim ownership of my intellectual property.

[@dmwalker24]

If I have a more efficient way to accomplish some task, I have zero incentive to share that, unless my job title happens to be 'Trainer'. It would only makes me less valuable. Bottom line, this is corporations trying to claim the thoughts in their worker's heads in addition to claiming all the products of their labor.

[@garymcallister4128]

"Who did the teleprompter on this?" It was outsourced to India.

[@Morgan313]

😂

[@TheTacticalHaggis]

Listen, I keep my knowledge to myself because it's what makes me valuable. If I give away that knowledge, everyone will claim it was their idea. Also, I keep some dirt on every company I start working at incase they decided to play games . Even if it's just to exercise some karma