[deadbeeves]

Perhaps, but if you know how far to push it, it's not a bad strategy. If you're on a salary it's in your interest to do the minimum possible that won't get you fired, just like how it is in your employer's interest to pay you the minimum possible that will get you to do your job.

[malfist]

Trying to do that calculus is just asking to make yourself unhappy.

Ask a fair salary, do what you can, act in good faith.

Success often follows being the person remembered as being helpful or useful.