[gfodor]

This is great. I can pretty much put a timestamp on each of these of "when I started acting like this", "when I realized I was acting like this", and "when I made a conscious effort to stop acting like this."

[gaius]

I've been an Arcanist and know plenty of them. The reason is simple: a bonus calculated on availability meeting or exceeding SLA.

It is a general rule of human nature, you will do what you are incentivized to do.