That might work for a short while, but over time it becomes completely mind-numbing and demotivating. It starts to feel like taking pride in your work is somehow shameful. Since we spend basically half our lives at work, is it really too much to ask that it actually means something?
It feels like the whole enterprise is designed to make you dislike your job and prevent you from ever progressing or accomplishing anything of substance. And I mean real substance, not a promotion or a raise. It seems like corporate leadership doesn’t actually want people to perform well, just to stay within narrow boxes defined by shallow metrics. Limited thinking, stuck in numbers and charts.