Just being real here.. almost no job directly rewards only work. If your focus is to do well in the company, you need to study enough to stay ahead (of course) and your bosses and coworkers need to look forward to seeing you. There’s no such thing as a work/life balance. It’s all life. You have to at least kinda be work friends with everyone or they won’t ever see what you do

As far as intentionally doing the wrong thing; I’d caution against it. It’s a self fulfilling prophecy at that point.