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Lokarin posted...

There's 7 billion people they could have hired and they decided 'meh, the lazy guy' was good enough

You're assuming they possess sufficient psychic powers to automatically know the lazy guy is lazy.

Unless there's a tell-tale giveaway (like former employers listed for references who all complain about how lazy the person was), a potential employer isn't going to have any real way to detect something that intangible (at least not until after you've already been working for awhile). Unless you're literally walking into a job interview and going "Hey, heads up, if you hire me I'm totally going to half-ass any task you give me", they won't know you're going to screw them over until after you've screwed them over.