Talk:Work-to-rule

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Police

I don't have a citation, but I remember a job action by police in New York State (maybe Nassau County) around 1970 in which they started strictly enforcing speed limits. Anyone have a citation? - Jmabel | Talk 04:20, 27 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

US military term

Some months ago, I heard a caller to the Ed Schulz Show use the phrase "white mutiny", where a military unit does much the same thing as "work-to-rule". Can anyone provide a cite to verify that usage? -- llywrch 19:58, 16 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Wiki Administrators

Some Wiki administrators had been observed to overstretch the implementation of their rules, in order to circumvent Wiki's major principles. --78.51.18.216 (talk) 11:06, 8 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Wrong definition.

This article's own sources say that a work-to-rule is when workers deliberately obey rules to the letter to cause a slowdown. The article defines "work-to-rule" as not going above and beyond the requirements. Somebody please fix it, as I assume that any edit I make will get reverted. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.166.255.246 (talk) 21:38, 2 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I guess the two usually come as a pair.--131.159.76.209 (talk) 12:55, 2 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Disagree, I don’t think setting boundaries in the workplace is the same as weaponizing the rules in a clearly unreasonable way. I think treating them as a pair is not NPOV. Cretaceousa (talk) 14:07, 3 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

In the old days we'd "work-to-rule" to protest proliferation of rigid and often conflicting new rules created every time confusion occurred. In a professional environment, trust your experienced staff to use good judgement and raise red flags only when necessary. We prided ourselves in going above and beyond. "Quiet Quitting" is an entirely different motivation, giving up on actually accomplishing anything. 2602:306:CD89:8710:142:37E3:29BF:11F5 (talk) 01:18, 28 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

How can it be that "Italian strike" refers to here, but there's nothing in the article about it?

How can it be that "Italian strike" refers to here, but there's nothing in the article about it? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.11.59.215 (talk) 10:03, 5 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Here's a weird idea – do some research into "Italian strike" and add the information! – Dyolf87 (talk) 05:03, 26 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

That research should be done before the information is added in the first place. If it's unsourced, it shouldn't be in the article. 71.11.5.2 (talk) 22:01, 1 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Quiet quitting

I feel as though quiet quitting and work-to-rule are two different things because the former is an individual action nothing to do with changing working conditions and the latter is an action of solidarity in order to change working conditions, but this article only really talks about work-to-rule in the introduction and spends the rest talking about quiet quitting. SanctaSofya (talk) 19:30, 27 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

This was exactly my, and others, complaint when the two former articles were merged.

The two concepts are not similar at all, because they arise for different reasons and expect different outcomes. 71.11.5.2 (talk) 22:00, 1 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Completely agree, the article is now a mess dominated by quiet quitting, which seems to be a US concept of very recent origin. The term is not used or even generally understood in the UK. What Clifford Geertz is doing in there is anybody's guess. --Ef80 (talk) 14:32, 8 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, I agree too. I was the original creator of the separate Quiet Quitting article and also opposed the merge for the same reasons. I would almost setup a split proposal to fix this again. PhotographyEdits (talk) 11:30, 21 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

From an organized labor perspective, "quiet quitting" by an individual has nothing to do with an organized work to rule/slowdown from the shop steward and local leadership. One person doing this, hell 10 people doing it, isn't changing anything except getting the individual(s) passed over and putting you on management's radar in reality.

From the perspective of a Union member looking for historic examples of work-to (like myself, that's why I visited) this article isn't anywhere near what it should be. 2600:1011:B17E:7B10:B0F3:9438:13FD:554F (talk) 21:25, 16 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@SanctaSofya is it even notable enough? maybe theres an article on cultural or economic impacts of COVID is can be shoehorned into?

moreover half the darn article is concerned with quiet quitting. why is this justified? because its a new concept that got lots of play in ephemeral content agregators and opinion pages? Wikipedia becomes more like knowyourmeme every year. this is a bit unencyclopedic. D emcee (talk) 01:19, 2 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Notable or trivia?

The Gen Zer who helped spark the quiet-quitting trend ended up leaving his job after all. He blames bad managers for a generation of disengaged employees. Mapsax (talk) 22:10, 13 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Mapsax that whole section should be massively reduced if not deleted outright, so trivia, sorry. it's almost offensive that work to rule and quiet quitting put in the same article, cuz quiet quitting is an individual spontaneous action, so it has no business being associated with unionism and collective action. it's an article structure that, at the very least, has certain ideological presuppositions to it D emcee (talk) 01:22, 2 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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