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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
Quiet quitting 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?
Quiet quitting by JimmiRustle October 2, 2022

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?
Quiet quitting by JimmiRustle October 2, 2022

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.

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."
Quit-quitting by OG quitter December 29, 2009

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.”
Quiet Quitting by TheAlwaysCorrect1 September 8, 2022
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