My dad constantly gives me advice about working, and there's something he keeps telling me that doesn't sit right with me. He tells me about the time he worked at a car dealership as a janitor or whatever they called it back then. He says that he would do more work than he was asked to while the other janitors would do only what they were told to do, and to reward him his boss gave him a raise (my dad doesn't remember how much) and took him to dinner with his family once. I don't know how to tell him this would never in a million years happen with 99% of companies today. “You do more work than you were asked to? Congratulations, here's your minimum wage, get back to work peasant.”
Pretty sure this was in the 1980s btw