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The original was posted on /r/antiwork by /u/OolongAI on 2025-10-23 20:11:12+00:00.

I am perfectly content in my job and there is no promotional or growth opportunities where I am. However, I am not interested in growth and I am not planning on leaving either. I just want to do my job, get paid, go home, and in 20 more years retire.

Yet every year we have “goal setting”, and the goals cannot just be my duties, but “other” objectives that would require me to perform above and beyond my job duties, and put in additional time and effort (unpaid). This makes no sense. Every time I fight back it’s futile. Is it me or goal setting is just another way for companies to get free labor?? Exploitation of goodwill, assuming employees want to get ahead, and somehow this helps them not the company. It’s voiding the fundamental trust of the agreed terms of employment, certain pay for certain work, that now there is this unspoken expectation beyond said work without more pay.