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Would you rather hire someone excited to be there or someone who doesn't give a shit?
Sure, but let's face it: Nobody is ever excited to carry out work for someone else. If you disagree, I have a lawn you can mow if you think that work is so exciting on it's own.
It's a management task to motivate employees to show up and spend a considerable amount of time of their life working to generate a profit for the company owner.
They can do so by compensating the employees reasonably and allowing them to have influence on how the work is done.
That's why managers are often more excited about their work. They get paid better and get to make more interesting decisions.
Minimum pay for being told what to do will result in minimum excitement and only doing the minimum effort. It's stupid to expect or have the audacity to demand anything more.
But at the end of the day you are still competing against someone who says they are happy to take the job
They can have it if want if they want those kind of jobs. Jobs do exist where bootlicking isn't an unpaid requirement.
People are different though. Some actually prefer that shit. Maybe they don't have anything else to offer or they have some kind of pleasing instinct or maybe it's just plain old masochism, I dunno. It's not for me and I still have plenty of jobs to choose from. I've left job interviews before because the "chemistry" wasn't right for me.
If you want a good job you’re going to have to feign at least a little excitement once.
I guess that's the difference between excited and doesn't give a shit, really. Ones a better liar.