Do people not value your time?
For some people, understanding the “value of their job” is directly related to the fact they have cornered the market on some skill that one one else can readily perform at that moment. This may lead to laziness:
Example 1:
“How about instead of coming to work, I stay at home and watch cartoons all day. You can call me if its an emergency, but I will only call you back during commercials, so you only have about 90 seconds. “
Example 2:
Admin guy (over the phone): “I can’t come in today and work on those server configurations” Manager guy: “Are you sick? did something happen?” Admin guy: “Well I was up all night working on those critical system backups” Manager guy: “Those took all night?” Admin guy: “Actually they took 11 hours” Manager guy: “You spent 11 hours on them, what did you have to do” Admin guy: “Well, I kicked off the backup script and checked it every 3-4 hours to see if it was still running.”
Manager: “So you didn’t actually work for 11 hours, you just worked for a few minutes.” Admin guy: “I mean… if something had gone wrong i would have been there to work on it and fix it.” Manager guy: “So, why didn’t you work on the server configurations last night?” Admin guy: “Well, between checking the backups I was sleeping”
