You run into laziness all over the place. Especially amongst IT folks and gas station attendants. Lynn Marie Sager wrote in A River Worth Riding that:

A River Worth Riding: Fourteen Rules for Navigating Life, author Lynn Marie Sager, publisher Aventine Press, Copyright 2005, www.navigatinglife.org

#1: We become lazy when we have low self-esteem. We become lazy when we can’t see ourselves as capable of success. After all, why should we want to take action if we believe that our actions are a waste of effort?

#2: And, strangely enough, we even become lazy when we are satisfied with our lives and want everything to remain exactly the same. After all, when we are happy with things as they are, we are not motivated to change them.

A River Worth Riding: Fourteen Rules for Navigating Life, author Lynn Marie Sager, publisher Aventine Press, Copyright 2005, www.navigatinglife.org

I suspect that the attendant that I ran into today was fully into #1. The IT guys are definitely #2. The problem is that these folks don’t want to do anything to rock the boat. It comes off as if they are lazy. The thing that causes all this is fear. Fear of change. Fear of rejection. Fear of be made fun off, and more.

Go read the book. Its enjoyable and worth the time to read it.