We are trained, in theory, that we have a duty to care about our jobs — but in the practice of the everyday, few people genuinely work to care about the jobs they produce in the workplace.
Why is there a disconnect between caring and duty?
Some feel too much is asked of them when it comes to doing a job. They are hired to connect "A" to "B" to create "C" and nothing more. To care about those connections is to drain the emotion necessary to deal with the rest of a rotting world. Or so they say.
When you have a special person that actually cares about the job they are doing and its effectiveness in making the world a brighter place, they are not celebrated by their co-workers or management. They are mocked and asked to do even more work to cover for those who fail to care.
It is a difficult task to ask the box deliverer to care about the boxes they carry; it is hard to beg a fireman to care about those saved from the flames; it is impossible to urge the surgeon to care about the flesh being cut — but we must begin to demand caring from every niche of the workspace so we will be more than just our jobs — and so together we shall rise above common duty and into the sublime of human morality.
