coping with having a lousy dead-end job theme
Someone is stuck in a very low status job and must come to terms with it.
11 total · 5 major · 6 minor
| Story | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| got7x01 | major | Samwell emptying bedpans etc. |
| movie: The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) | major | Fred resented coming back to his old employer as an assistant to the man who had once assisted himself back when he was a soda jerk. Incidentally, he also had to carry out the duties of a soda jerk once more. His shallow wife was relentless in putting him down for being prospectless. |
| tz2002e1x09 | major | The point was driven home that working 20 years as a "pool guy" is not a happy life. |
| tz2002e1x20 | major | Martin was sick of working at his low paying sales job. |
| tz2002e1x22 | major | Gabe was dissatisfied with barely scraping as a deliveryman. In the end, he took matters into his own hands and started a deliver company of his own. |
| ahp4x21 | minor | In his monologue, Alfred Hitchcock feigned to try out the lowly and demeaning profession of "sandwich board ad" boy. |
| columbo1971e3x04 | minor | The projectionist Roger White was studying about real-estate as a means to better his lot in life. Desperate to get out of his lousy current job, he tried to blackmail his employer for $50,000 in starting capital. |
| movie: Battlefield Earth (2000) | minor | Terl's superiors consigned him to oversee the remote Psychol outpost known as Earth indefinitely as punishment over one or more unexplained incidents involving "the Senator's daughter". |
| rd1988e1x01 | minor | The slobbish technician Lister had the lowliest job on the ship. |
| rd1988e8x03 | minor | Rimmer lamented that he was stuck doing remedial work on the Red Dwarf will little hope of ever rising to the rank of officer. |