When I got paid minimum wage to work at a grocery store, I certainly didn’t give it 100% every day. They paid me minimum wage because they wanted to pay me less, but the law wouldn’t let them. Why should I stress myself out for a job like that? Of course I shouldn’t, and it didn’t bother my bosses that it took it easy on a regular basis.
The same general principle applies to other jobs as well. If you’re fairly low on the totem pole and some the big problem comes up that could affect the company in a major way, you’d be out of your mind to try to tackle it yourself. They don’t pay you enough to risk your job to tackle it yourself. It’s your boss or your boss’s problem.
When I got paid minimum wage to work at a grocery store, I certainly didn’t give it 100% every day. They paid me minimum wage because they wanted to pay me less, but the law wouldn’t let them. Why should I stress myself out for a job like that? Of course I shouldn’t, and it didn’t bother my bosses that it took it easy on a regular basis.
The same general principle applies to other jobs as well. If you’re fairly low on the totem pole and some the big problem comes up that could affect the company in a major way, you’d be out of your mind to try to tackle it yourself. They don’t pay you enough to risk your job to tackle it yourself. It’s your boss or your boss’s problem.