It's not about over delivering. I do a lot of -blam!- that's not on my job description at work because it keeps -blam!- getting done around the office. If I don't do it, the whole business suffers. Do I get paid for it?....... No. I've gotten raises more frequently than my coworkers though. Nobody yells when I don't do the thing that's not my job to do, but they notice when I work hard. Any argument of overdelivery is ultimately about wanting to limit expectation. Here. put it this way. Nice and simple. You know that coworker who acts like they're dumb as a brick house built on wooden stilts? But you know they aren't? They're just acting stupid so nobody will ask anything of them? That's what bungie is doing. "I don't get paid more for working harder so I'm just going to act too -blam!- stupid for them to expect anything better from me". I've had at least five colleagues pull this over the years, I know it when I see it. That said, there have been a few times that I've worked for companies that don't appreciate the extra mile... Kinda let it know what I can do vs what I'm willing to do with their treatment, kinda the "this is the weld you get for what you're offering, this is the weld you get for what I'm asking for" tactic. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't but it's still not playing dumb.