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Quiet Quitting Legitimacy Gauge
Is doing the job as specified a rational response to this employment situation, or is the pattern costing you more than it costs them?
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What this means
This instrument starts blank so it does not judge a made-up example before you have entered your own situation.
Formula used
Legitimacy score = pay vs effort + career trajectory + manager quality, weighed against duration and outside options
Worked example
Significantly underpaid, stagnant career, actively bad manager = entirely legitimate. But if you have no outside options and have been doing this for over a year, the cost is accumulating on your side.
Common questions
Is quiet quitting actually quitting?
No. Quiet quitting means doing the job as described — no unpaid overtime, no going beyond the role specification without corresponding reward. It became a phrase because many workplaces normalised excess effort without naming it as a concession.
When does quiet quitting become self-limiting?
When the conditions do not strongly justify it, when there are no strong outside options, and when the pattern continues for a long time. Disengagement without a plan is a slow cost — the employer replaces you eventually; you have lost the development time.
Plain-English summary
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