"Acting Your Wage."

"Acting Your Wage."

As quiet quitting is slowly fizzing out, "Act Your Wage" is stepping in. The newest trend in the world of work champions only doing the job you've been paid to do — and nothing more.

We want to know — what are your thoughts on the newest "Act Your Wage" trend?

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  1. Anonymous

    I don't see it as a 'workers empowerment'. Mostly it's just yet one more excuse for people to do the barest amount of work while still getting paid but meanwhile complaining about how hard they work or how awful their company is.

    Meanwhile, their coworkers or their managers are stuck trying to pick up the slack and make do with even less. "Well, they should just do the bare minimum too" is not an answer and if you're in management it's even less an option unless you are okay with just losing your job.

    Entitlement attitudes about pay and job duty expectations are so off-kilter, like a lot of things these days.

    Eventually all this 'acting your wage' leads to a company that doesn't function and will eventually go out of business, then everyone is screwed.

    Laziness, selfishness and short-sightedness is what is driving the world to ruin.

  2. Anonymous

    Personally, I think the whole business structure needs to be rethought and reorganized. Many businesses aren't "future mindful", which is something left from the industrial revolution. Too many people asking "how much can I make from this?" rather than "how can this benefit others in the future?"

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