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# 2026-04-29 21:27:28

## Soldiering

[**Soldiering**](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_management#Soldiering)
describes the practice of workers
performing to the bare minimum necessary to avoid punishment.

Coined in [[taylor_1911_scientific-management]],
though Taylor acknowledged the tendency was given many names.

I think there must be something about the concept
that causes terms invented for it not to stick.
Right now it's "quiet quitting",
although I haven't heard it used in some time.
