A recent Gallup poll found that at least 50% of employees in the US are quietly quitting. They follow the rules & finish work projects by the deadline, but no extra work or overtime.

Taking this approach allows for more jobs, but it takes away from the possibility of a promotion.

If you had a choice, which option would you take? Quiet quitter & more than 1 job or search out extra work and promotions with 1 job?

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There is no guarantee that you will get the pay bump, promotion, or even “seen” by your manager or leadership for working extra hours or overtime. Especially as a salary person. I have been passed over too many times and I saw my parents and grandparents overlooked as well.

Now I have done above and beyond to the point where I was basically getting paid less than minimum wage and wayyy less than anyone who reported to me. (We are talking minimum wage was $7/hour and with my hours I was making $2/ hour because of all the hours I was working)

The company had to hire 10 people to replace me. And paid them current rate salaries instead of paying me equal to my peers.

Today, I would work my but off and take on those stretch assignments and work overtime, if there was the pay bump/time and a half. But stretch assignments and overtime are just for experience… similar to the social media “exposure”

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I am not at all surprised by that number and honestly I would have thought it would have been higher than that. I would rather be a quiet quitter with more than one job than to stay with one company and hope for the best.

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I'm also surprised that the number is so low. There are probably more overemployed quiet quitters than people hoping for the best too.

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