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There are a couple of reasons to do well on the job: it might be a joyful activity, it leads to better opportunities, it teaches a lesson that can be used start

There are a couple of reasons to do well on the job: it might be a joyful activity, it leads to better opportunities, it teaches a lesson that can be used starting something, or it ensures employment. If none of these things have appeal, then one should carefully think about being in that job.

simianwords 1y ago
The most important reason to do a good job is empathy for your customers. Everything else is secondary.
- horsawlarway 1y ago
  Personally, I find this attitude pretty derivative. Why should a worker feel empathy for a customer if that empathy doesn't have any meaningful impact on them? It's a good thing to say to a founder of a company, such as the owner of a small business. It's a pretty useless thing to say to an overworked support staff... Answering more calls or putting out more fires very rarely benefits that role. Hell, I've seen support staff get told attempting to help a customer too long is a negative, and they're doing a bad job. Even in the best cases, I've often seen drive met with a management that just makes that effort the new baseline... "Great job, guys! Our ticket wait time is down 30% , now let's keep it there!" So sure - have empathy for your customers. Don't have it blindly at bad jobs.
- alistairSH 1y ago
  The most important reason to do a good job is the slightly higher likelihood of being able to feed and house your family.
strken 1y ago
There's something that makes me sad about the thought of an engineer, sitting at a desk, thinking "I can't fix the fifteen second frobnizzle page load time because otherwise they'll make me fix the performance of everything." That's not how work is meant to be. In this metaphor, one should like pie. If the pie eating contest is offering free pie then it's perfectly legitimate to walk in, eat a normal amount of pie, accept your prize, and be happy with it.
- exe34 1y ago
  I don't see the problem with more work as long as it displaces other work that I can now either not do or do at a later time. I'm not going to do more work in the same time just because I have a talent.
- tossandthrow 1y ago
  If you derive personal satisfaction from the acitivity of fixing these performance issues, then I don't see the issue?

simianwords 1y ago

The most important reason to do a good job is empathy for your customers. Everything else is secondary.

horsawlarway 1y ago
Personally, I find this attitude pretty derivative. Why should a worker feel empathy for a customer if that empathy doesn't have any meaningful impact on them? It's a good thing to say to a founder of a company, such as the owner of a small business. It's a pretty useless thing to say to an overworked support staff... Answering more calls or putting out more fires very rarely benefits that role. Hell, I've seen support staff get told attempting to help a customer too long is a negative, and they're doing a bad job. Even in the best cases, I've often seen drive met with a management that just makes that effort the new baseline... "Great job, guys! Our ticket wait time is down 30% , now let's keep it there!" So sure - have empathy for your customers. Don't have it blindly at bad jobs.
alistairSH 1y ago
The most important reason to do a good job is the slightly higher likelihood of being able to feed and house your family.

strken 1y ago

There's something that makes me sad about the thought of an engineer, sitting at a desk, thinking "I can't fix the fifteen second frobnizzle page load time because otherwise they'll make me fix the performance of everything." That's not how work is meant to be. In this metaphor, one should like pie. If the pie eating contest is offering free pie then it's perfectly legitimate to walk in, eat a normal amount of pie, accept your prize, and be happy with it.

exe34 1y ago
I don't see the problem with more work as long as it displaces other work that I can now either not do or do at a later time. I'm not going to do more work in the same time just because I have a talent.
tossandthrow 1y ago
If you derive personal satisfaction from the acitivity of fixing these performance issues, then I don't see the issue?