A company in Kirchberg has reported that among its many normal, discontent staff members is one who is actually motivated to work.
Because Omar Cortez has been with AGL Software for five years, experts say his motivation is not the result of being new on the job and that it is rooted in some deeper psychological issue.
“He comes to work on time, does his job as efficiently as he can, and if he’s told he needs to do something better, he’ll do it,” said Regina Krudel, Cortez’s direct supervisor. “It’s weird.”
Krudel says that when she gives an assignment to a team member, she expects them to claim ignorance about how to do it, then drag their feet, insisting they just don’t have time. When the task is finally complete, she says that she expects it to have been done poorly.
“Not Omar,” she said. “It’s almost like a horror movie. I’ll ask him to prepare a report, and then by the end of the day, he’s standing there smiling in my office, the finished report in his hands.”
Most strange, say Cortez’s coworkers, is that he often does more than required.
“Once, he went down to the storage room for binders, and he came back with all the supplies we were running low on,” said Aurelie Haas. “Who does that? It’s not normal.”
Another time, Cortez volunteered to give a presentation even though he was not required to.
Some say that Cortez is not to blame, describing his behavior as “retro,” saying that it belongs in pre-Covid times when people took pride in their work and felt optimistic about the future.
Others, however, describe Cortez’s work ethic as disturbing, saying that it makes no sense given the society-wide disillusionment and the feeling that something is fundamentally wrong with work life.
“It’s as if he actually gets pleasure from doing his job well,” Haas said. “It’s creepy, and he needs help.”
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Originally published by RTL Today
