>>133549Most white collar jobs prefer "self-motivated" workers who will look for things that need doing proactively and get them taken care of. The expectation is generally that doing so will result in a reward of some sort. Basically, if you only do what you're told the manager has to be either annoyingly micro-managey or you spend most of your time doing fuck all. I've gone weeks where I only did work for a couple hours because that's all it takes to complete the bare minimum, though that's largely because my work has extreme volume changes and not because I'm refusing to do extra.
It's really fucking hard to get fired just for being shit at your job because managers are cowards and HR/legal bring up tons of bullshit people have to worry about. It's honestly a big problem.