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Rhiannon12866

(204,468 posts)
Thu Nov 19, 2020, 09:36 PM Nov 2020

Man Refuses to Leave Job He Hates

WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—A Florida man who hates the job he has held for nearly four years is nevertheless refusing to leave it, puzzling psychologists.

While many people are reluctant to leave jobs that they enjoy, the man has shown every sign of despising his job from the day he took it.

Rather than applying himself to the tasks before him, he has gone to great lengths to avoid them, watching television most of the day and frequently leaving the office to play golf.

Sometimes, he has even hidden in the basement of his workplace for hours, according to reports.

And yet, despite his obvious distaste for his job, he has steadfastly refused to accept the fact that he was fired from it two weeks ago.

Dr. Davis Logsdon, chairman of the psychology department of the University of Minnesota, proposed a possible explanation for the man’s bizarre actions.

“This is the behavior of someone who has failed at many jobs,” he said. “On some level, he is terrified that he is not employable anywhere else.”


Short article, no more at link: https://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/man-refuses-to-leave-job-he-hates



Photograph by Saul Loeb / Getty

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Man Refuses to Leave Job He Hates (Original Post) Rhiannon12866 Nov 2020 OP
The last paragraph says it all mtnsnake Nov 2020 #1
Exactly! Rhiannon12866 Nov 2020 #2

mtnsnake

(22,236 posts)
1. The last paragraph says it all
Thu Nov 19, 2020, 09:48 PM
Nov 2020

He sure is terrified about his future employment opportunities which will mostly be limited to making license plates after Letitia James makes a beeline for him once he's a regular citizen again, not that there's anything regular about him.

Rhiannon12866

(204,468 posts)
2. Exactly!
Fri Nov 20, 2020, 07:13 AM
Nov 2020

He never intended to do the job, but he knows he'll be in even worse trouble when he leaves...

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