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This is becoming more common every day, IMO. Just expecting someone to do their job seems to be annoying to many (especially civil servants).

Excellent observation. Now dig deeper. Why is this so? What prompts people to not gave a damn about their jobs? Why is there no fear of retribution from management?

You've uncovered the tip of an iceberg that connects the world of Atlas Shrugged to today's world. Let's throw some sunlight on that iceberg.

You can ask your question from the opposite way — what makes people give a damn about their jobs?

i think people care about their jobs when they have a stake in the outcome, either financially or in a sense of group pride. The attitude that “I do my job but nothing more” that is pervasive in this book and in places today may be indicative of a lack of locus of control - things happen to us, we do not affect things

A true conservative DEMANDS locus of control. By god, we WILL be in charge of our destiny and we will REFUSE to allow events to wash over us.

Management is top down and bottom up at the same time.

When management has an attitude that it expects excellence, it rewards excellence and will tolerate nothing else, People tend to deliver.

The high achievers will hold their coworkers to a similar standard.

When management puts up with substandard performance it is demoralizing to people who try to do well and over all performance will fall.

Slime begets slime.

"What prompts people to not gave a damn about their jobs? Why is there no fear of retribution from management? "

IMHO, this mindset is the clear outcome of a strategy proposed in the late 19th century by the Fabians and finally implemented successfully during the past 40 years. That strategy being to gain control of the Nation's education system as a means to peacefully force socialism on a society.

The steps were clear:

Create a government education agency that, in effect, eliminates the "public" school system through purse-string management;
Break up the concept of local/neighborhood schools in order to eliminate the student's sense of "community belonging" by black-robed-cleric-ordered busing;
Have the government schools homogenize the thinking of the student population so that no one wants to be seen as being "smarter" than the others;
Staff the government schools with socialist-leaning teachers who have been churned out by the socialist-leaning universities;
Eliminate all competitive spirit (physically and mentally) in children beginning in kindergarten and reinforce it K-12;
Allow children to sue their "birth" parents...but not their "real" parent...the government;
Have the government school system hide, from the "birth" parents, non-essentials such as birth control use, abortions, and, in some cases, sexual assault;
Continually tell the government's children that their "birth" parents are wrong on the cultural and moral issues that used to be the purview of the "birth" parents;
Inform "birth" parents that they cannot interfere with the government school social-engineering agenda; and, to make it perpetually worse,
Have these brain-dead children go on to the socialist-leaning universities, graduate, and come back to the government schools to teach another generation. (Moronic serfs begetting more moronic serfs!)

So....we are seeing the 2nd or 3rd generation of ready-made serfs. No self-respecting serf would care about the job he/she has. In fact, in a socialist society, no serf really cares or worries about the consequences of disagreement with the boss.

When competition is bred out of a society, as has been done in this country for 40+ years: things fail, science crumbles, infrastructure rots, the entire moral fabric decays, and the government ruling class gets stronger and stronger.

So who is John Galt? "Who cares!" is the subliminal response.