occupational
citizenship behaviors
leaving work on time
In an article about the quiet quitting concept, Mr. James Tapper wrote:
Rather than working late on a Friday evening, organising the annual team-building trip to Slough or volunteering to supervise the boss’s teenager on work experience, the quiet quitters are avoiding the above and beyond, the hustle culture mentality, or what psychologists call “occupational citizenship behaviours”.
Instead, they are doing just enough in the office to keep up, then leaving work on time and muting Slack. Then posting about it on social media.
Occupational citizenship behaviours.
These, I think used to be called ‘Conventions‘ as in, “The conventions demand it.“
In the movie Revenge (which is based on a Jim Harrison short story but achieved more fame when Kevin Costner told the story that he was signed up to do the movie ‘Revenge’ and the script went into re-write and Costner asked how long it would take as if there was enough time, he was going to go do this baseball movie in Iowa), the killer anti-hero says out loud something along the lines of , ‘I have to do this. The conventions demand it … I don’t even know what means.’
Occupational citizenship behaviours.
I do know what that means and while I am back in the office only two days a week so far, I just don’t want to have to follow through with them anymore.
Suffice it say, leaving work on time used to go against the conventions.
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