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Quiet quit

When physically, you still turn up to work but mentally, you check out and do the absolute bare minimum to get by.
My boss has been an asshole lately but I need the money so I just quiet quit.
by The Real Peanut Gangsta May 27, 2022
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Quiet quitting

Big company made-up term for employees who perform their duties written in the contract, it's typically used to shame them.
Hey John, i recently started to notice that you're Quiet Quitting the company.
- It's not called quiet quitting, it's called Acting My Wage
by VemonP55 August 22, 2022
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Quiet quitting

A terminology mainly used by employers and industry to describe employees’ refusal to be exploited through means such as overtime, unpaid work or doing work outside of their responsibilities.
Le Manager: Damn, everyone on the team is suddenly Quiet Quitting. We’re never going to catch up on orders. Nobody wants to work.

Supervisor: So you’re saying that because everybody is working to contract the company is getting behind on work, and you think it’s the employees’ fault and not because you haven’t hired enough hands?
by JimmiRustle October 2, 2022
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Quiet quitting

A terminology mainly used by employers and industry to describe employees’ refusal to be exploited through means such as overtime, unpaid work or doing work outside of their responsibilities.
Le Manager: Damn, everyone on the team is suddenly Quiet Quitting. We’re never going to catch up on orders. Nobody wants to work.

Supervisor: So you’re saying that because everybody is working to contract the company is getting behind on work, and you think it’s the employees’ fault and not because you haven’t hired enough hands?
by JimmiRustle October 2, 2022
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Quiet Quitting

Working no more, and no less, than 40 hours a week in a full time job.
Alex has been leaving work at 5pm each day recently because he’s quiet quitting.
by Drinks are on…the house September 5, 2022
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Quit-quitting

(verb): 1. the act of reversing a course of action, mission, food/drink item, and/or significant other that one has quit prior. 2. To quit the quitting process.
“Sally told me she quit talking to Josh, but now she is talking to him on the phone right now. She is totally quit-quitting."
by OG quitter December 29, 2009
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Quiet Quitting

A word millennials came up with that equates to doing your job without picking up overtime.

Basically it’s doing what you’re supposed to do at your job.
I’m thinking about quiet quitting my job.

“That’s not quiet quitting, that’s just doing your job.”
by TheAlwaysCorrect1 September 8, 2022
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