[literallycancer]

Why would you work in an unsafe environment without proper tools and safety measures? If you get injured the insurance company won't pay a cent, since you broke the safety protocol, and the employer will probably just fire you. Dead people can't sue for damages either.

If you are an just an employee, it makes perfect sense to throw up your hands and claim you can't solve a problem, when the alternative is taking risks that reward the company, rather than yourself.

[ridgeguy]

It depends on values. Many of a certain age grew up in an environment that placed less emphasis on benefits to an individual and/or their employer and more on "gettin' it done".

Not endorsing either POV, just noting that one's formative era affects one's behavior.

[lb1lf]

Also, in an entity large enough, you may find that your incentives clash all the time as different parts of the organization have different views of what constitutes success; one department may put the organizational equivalent of barbed wire and minefields in your path, while another department, blissfully ignorant of said minefields, order you to charge ahead.

So, what do you do?

a) Throw up your hands in despair and do nothing, annoying whoever asked you to wade through barbed wire only to find the minefield.

b) Get down to it, step on a few mines after getting cut to shreds on the barbed wire, annoying the people who placed the mines as well as the ones who asked you to charge ahead (which are, by now, annoyed that you didn't complete the task on schedule.)

c) Try to point to the inconsistencies of The System and ask for clarification and advice. Annoy both the people who put down the mines (who fail to see why anyone wouldn't want a mine field there, it's not like they put them down for fun!) and the people who simply want you to do your job (noting that you complain that the sappers keep you from doing it well, rather than just getting down to it.)

d) Quit.