[sokoloff]

> by being the only one who cares, I got promotions and salary raises.

Having also been in a similar situation, I'm going to guess that it wasn't actually the caring that made the difference, but the practical actions that you took (motivated by that caring) that made the difference.

It's one thing to "care". It's another to do data recording and a subsequent Pareto analysis of the sources of outage/downtime/bugs/losses, then to apply efforts to solve the 20% of things that likely result in 80% of the losses, thus dramatically improving the operations of the company.

Other people don't seem to care at all, while others "care too much" (meaning won't accept anything other than 100% fixes to 100% of issues, meaning they can skip over the hard work of data collection and analysis).

Creating good outcomes is generally rewarded; mere caring is not.