QUIETLY LEVELING UP #QLU

Rob Jones
2 min readSep 7, 2022
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The Reasons For #QuietQuitting are clear, right?

Individuals are frustrated because they want to give their full energy, creativity, time, and enthusiasm to their organizations and leaders.

Wrong.

Neither party is “giving” anything. Employment is a buy-sell proposition.

#Humans want to sell their skills.
#Employers want to buy their skills.

Employers need to acquire workers in return for a “legal minimum wage” to the greatest extent possible unless induced to pay otherwise by the market or government pressures. Jobs tend to start at the lowest possible market point while employers extract the highest value for as long as possible.

Nobody’s Quitting.
#QLU is a simple formula.
Restoring the proverbial balance of a fair day’s work for a fair day’s pay.

#QQ messaging is creating a rechurning of some old terms from Maslow’s motivational pyramidal hierarchy. They’re being used to create a loud negative buzz around either one of the only two pieces of the company-worker compensation schema that the employee may control, i.e., work quality and quantity.

#QQ phenomenon is often presented as a passive-aggressive and punitive variant of employee…

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Rob Jones

A career spanning public, private, and nonprofit sectors. High-level management experience across a range of activities in F-500 companies and Consulting/Coach.