Quit

The world has enough "what's your reaction?" content. No need to poll the internet, just make a decision and move on with your life.

Can’t tell if the boss’ reply is AI text or just kool-aid drunk businessman.

Did everyone clap, too?

I just don’t believe a boss would commit to writing “your output is higher and better but I like Tad’s vibe better.”

Just begging for a visit from HR.

Do the minimum and go around the office socializing. If they complain, show them the email and tell them you're working on the metrics they care about the most.

My vote is thinly disguised sexism.

Does that even count as a disguise? Either way was pretty dang sexist.

Yeah, don't believe this at all. Reads like some dream sequence someone had. Even the dumbest managers wouldn't say something this stupid, they all know this is a trip right to HR.

Yeah, this feels like bullshit.

But it’s scary!

“What is it you’d say you do here?”

“I’m a vibes person! I deal with vibes!”

Quit the Lawyer, Hit the Facebook, Gym Up

I've been a union rep for a good few years and honestly you wouldn't believe the shit I've seen managers put in writing. "It is company policy to commit crimes here" levels of brazenly breaking the law, especially for stuff like disability discrimination. I can 100% believe this.

absolutely written by AI. I can even guess the prompt

lol first time reading the opinions of morons?

From https://www.wikihow.com/Quiet-Quit#How-to-Quiet-Quit-Your-Job-.28Without-Getting-Fired.29)

How to Quiet Quit Your Job (Without Getting Fired)

• Step 1 Stop doing any tasks that aren’t in your job description.
• Step 2 Stop showing up early to work and only arrive on time.
• Step 3 Stop staying late in the office and leave on time.
• Step 4 Refuse office communications outside of working hours.
• Step 5 Don’t take work home with you.
• Step 6 Don’t attend non-mandatory meetings or social work functions.

My opinion, only quit if you a) can do those things and b) want to extract value aside from money during the time you spend working.

Hit up a lawyer, quit Facebook*

Feels like the scene from The Other Guys about how you’re valuable for doing the work we don’t want to

That is a quittable offense.

That sounds like a bit of a jump to conclusions

You could read between the lines and realize your attitude affects the team in a negative way.

These days there's the possibly that a manager might just use an AI for response and not consider the implications if the tone looks professional at a glance, perhaps. There's something that feels AI-ish about it anyway, but that could simply be the corporate "professional" writing style I suppose.

I don't believe this but you can absolutely fire someone for vibes.

Your attitude does affect team members. I'd happily fire a high out put team member for being an ass.

Find another job, get a start date, call out first day of new job, if you like new job quit old next morning. They don't deserve any notice. Simple.

Is there anything actually illegal happening here?

Consider yourself lucky then.

I have absolutely met managers this dumb. I had a manager quote me in an email reply, with what was quoted in the same email chain and included with the other replies, then forward it (still including all the replies!) claiming that he "rescued" me from a client incident because I didnt reply.

With the reply from me just two emails below.

Yes, there are absolute idiots in management who would 100% reply with this.

Even the dumbest managers

You're overestimating people.

If I quit, and the boss man is like "you can't quit, you're fired!" I'd be like "woohoo! unemployment!" which I wasnt gonna get by quitting.

Edit: I missed the quiet part. Still gonna leave this here tho.

that reply is all you need, time to start looking for something else

Sounds like an edge case

This feels fake. I could be wrong and hope I am.

Nope. It's a spectrum, but at some point "vibes" absolutely matter.

My bosses must be smarter than the most them because they refuse to ever put anything in writing.

I already do all of those. I'm not looking to quit, I'm just not going to do work I'm not being compensated for.

"You're a mule and we will work you as hard as you let us. Quit if you don't like how we run things."

This is like saying the world has enough stories, so new stories don't have a place anymore.

Hard disagree.

Idk why you're being downvoted lol.

I want some oponions. Regular onions aren't doing it for me anymore.

I can see a situation where that makes sense. A colleague who keeps morale up can be at least as important for the team as one who works hard

...on the other hand, it can also be a way for managers to reward their loyal favorites for no particular reason.

I dunno, this makes me happy we have collectively bargained wages at my workplace

No manager competent enough to write that well is going to put anything like that down in writing. Totally fake.

It's an AI written justification.

Could still be fake, but there are absolutely people that are this stupid and use chatgpt.

That was one of my first thoughts too, but I'm not sure that's a sign of it being fake.

The whole thing is curious but I'd need more detail to make a confident statement.

Work hard to get paid. Once you get paid, dial back that work folks. Dial it right back.

but how else am I going to make thousands of people incessantly angry at a strawman if I don't make them think I haven't made it up?

THINK OF THE CLICKS! THE CLIIICKS! (to the tune of "She takes premium, dude")

There's people at Amazon that thought an AI only phone is a good idea

Should take your own advice sometimes? The world has enough comments.

I, however, am all for documenting unfair treatment and putting it out in the open.

Working hard and working effectively are not always the same thing.

In the Netherlands and most of Europe i suppose you're better off being if you get fired, but if you get fired because you're a shitty employee you can get cut on your initial compensation. But especially if you've worked somewhere for a long time you could get a multiple months of pay.

It doesn't read like it's generated, but I'm not really that savvy on these things

Idk either, but whatever. I didn't comment for the upvotes. Maybe i should've put /s or a ;) behind it.