Saying “that’s not my job” is literally one of the most American things you can say. Do you think Musk or Bezos or Gates or Zuckerberg or Pichai would ever pick up a mop and bucket at their office? In North America, delegation to middle management, expanding the bureaucracy, is the name of the game. Only peons buy into the “gotta pick up the slack for my coworkers!” mentality.
Most of the time I encounter it, it’s completely selfish bullshit. I’m the asshat that gets stuck doing everything that everyone else says “it’s not my job” when it literally is. Just because people think cleaning up after themselves isn’t their job doesn’t mean it isn’t.
I get if you’re an office worker and somehow you’re expected to clean a toilet or something, but if you use a printer or something and it runs out of paper, just get more fucking paper… The next person is just going to have to do it even though you were the one to empty it.
It’s not that anyone knows I do it so they don’t, it’s that it needs to be done and no one does it so I do. I can’t just let shit fester, it’s just not in my nature. It’s an ethics thing for me I think, it feels “wrong” to leave something undone that I know needs to be done.
Saying “that’s not my job” is literally one of the most American things you can say. Do you think Musk or Bezos or Gates or Zuckerberg or Pichai would ever pick up a mop and bucket at their office? In North America, delegation to middle management, expanding the bureaucracy, is the name of the game. Only peons buy into the “gotta pick up the slack for my coworkers!” mentality.
Most of the time I encounter it, it’s completely selfish bullshit. I’m the asshat that gets stuck doing everything that everyone else says “it’s not my job” when it literally is. Just because people think cleaning up after themselves isn’t their job doesn’t mean it isn’t.
I get if you’re an office worker and somehow you’re expected to clean a toilet or something, but if you use a printer or something and it runs out of paper, just get more fucking paper… The next person is just going to have to do it even though you were the one to empty it.
That is the exact logic that leads everyone to take advantage of you. It is a business not your home.
It’s not that anyone knows I do it so they don’t, it’s that it needs to be done and no one does it so I do. I can’t just let shit fester, it’s just not in my nature. It’s an ethics thing for me I think, it feels “wrong” to leave something undone that I know needs to be done.