Sure, I worked at Boeing for about 3 years before I went back to school and got my teaching degree. They would give me 3x or 4x the time I needed to do something. So I'd finish my project in like a week and play God of War and walk around for 3 weeks, and they still thought I was fantastic. They actually had me redo the flight computers for the CH-47 Chinook, it was insane because people just kept adding random code over 50 years to make things work to the point of it failing due to just the volume and inefficiency. I rewrote most of it in a month and they gave me 6. I'm guessing the guy before he just sucked or milked the hell out of it to give them the expectations.

100% of the time.

I’m in IT - have had a series of bosses that have been resistant to scripting. But because I’m lazy I still will script a solution, finish “early” and then just not tell them I’m done until when it feels like as long as it would have taken to do manually.

Act your wage.

I'll go against the grain here and say it depends on the employer. I worked for a great company, where we were well treated, well paid, believed in our product, had long term employees and low turnover, steady growth and competitive advantage. Our work was important and we loved our customers and they us. I worked crazy bullshit hours for these folks. They never had to ask. We were engaged and wanted to give our best.

Then they got bought out, laid off a bunch, outsourced to india who pickled a client's production system and shut down operations for a week because they didn't know the difference between test and production.

I went from a superstar hard worker, to a drifter because they murdered everything from reputations to culture to benefits. Everything sucked and I hoped I would find some reason to stay even though in my heart, I knew it was over.