Work Ethic from the Motorcycle Mystic

I really wish I knew anything about motorcycles...this chapter would make so much more sense.  I guess the general gist of what Crawford is talking about is the ethics of work.  Is it acceptable to charge for the exact hours you work, even if you take longer than you should?  Is it all right to leave something un-fixed, just because the machine will probably still work for a while if you don't fix it?  The right answer to both of these questions is basically "no", but Crawford's opinion comes shrouded in a mystical language of pistons and oil and solvents.  I was reminded, a little, of a situation I was in earlier this week.  I work at the library on campus, and on Monday morning I was shelving a cart of books upstairs.  While I was shelving, I found several instances where books had been shelved in the wrong place.  This happens a lot, and I am often tempted to just leave the books where they are because I don't want to deal with them.  But usually, when I think about people coming to me and not being able to find the book they need because it's misshelved, I move the books to where they're supposed to be.  This work ethic, it seems to me, is the sort of thing that people don't see on job applications or resumes.  If my current employer doesn't know whether I move books to their proper place-if nobody knows it-it doesn't benefit me in any way.  The same goes for Crawford charging for fewer hours than he actually spent working, just because he was inexperienced and it took him longer.  I wonder if this is the main thing Crawford was trying to get across, or if there was something else I missed.  Either way, I think this is an important thing to think about, especially because I'm about to (hopefully) start working somewhere, and I want to be able to do the best work I can.