What's wrong with people?

I was going to continue my series of blogs on our Ho Chi Minh City trip, but for the past few days, something's been bothering me so much that I have to break the flow and pen it down. The past 1 week at work has been torturous to say the least. I have experienced emotions of frustration, sadness, disgust and ghastliness in my dealings with people around me.

At work, I am surrounded with people who have no motivation to work, who work only because it is a means of income and nothing more than that - they don't derive any happiness or sense of satisfaction in what they do everyday. There is absolutely no drive or passion. All they care about is money and how they can get away with avoiding work as much as possible. And this is true not only with people at my level but also among my superiors. If managers are going to set such example, then how the heck do they expect people under them to respect them or work with any motivation or integrity? So many of the superiors that I have worked with know only how to delegate with no sense of guidance or responsibility - all they care is that for every task there is a "face" assigned - doesn't matter whether that person assigned is even qualified to do it or knows how to do it. It's pathetic to say the least. And people who suffer under these superiors have a universal lack of courage to speak out - no one seems to say anything to their managers - everyone likes to whine and complain how they are being treated unfairly, but no one will talk it out with the managers. In all meetings, formal or informal, that I have been part of which involves managers, I never see people open their mouth to say what's actually the right thing to say. They just sit mum. And then later they will complain. I mean how in the world do they think their grievances will be addressed if they don't even open their mouth?

Over the three and a half years here, I have felt that people's priorities here are just messed up. It's either about all materialistic things or it's about working until you die. What about people, relationships, friendship? Do they not matter at all? Do only the latest gadgets and a big bonus matter? What about passion, motivation and drive? What about something personal, other than work? Something that you do just for yourself? What about believing in what you feel is right and talking about it? What's wrong with people?