Have you ever quoted Aristotle in a resignation letter?

[siead_lietrathua]

I can see the signs now:

"Will philosophise for food."

Rapscallion

i have a homeless friend who does just that.... and can actually make some half-decent cash on a quantum-physics rant

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

If it ever gets so bad I quit this job and find a different one, I think I will be quoting the great philosopher Johnny Paycheck.

"Take this job and shove it"

[RecoveringKinkoid]

"To quote the great philosopher Aristotle, 'All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.' "

Have you noticed how a lot of people with college educations who live off the largess of others use this sort of reasoning to try and detract from the fact that they are bums?

I read a great book once called The Morning River by (I think) Michael Gear. Picture this loser in the OP's post as the main character (cuz this was the very first thing I though if when reading that post) who ends up forced into servitude on a river barge on the american frontier during the 17 or 1800's(can't remember...probably 1800's).

On a visceral level, it was fun to watch the pompous little sh#t get The Big Life Lesson literally beaten into him. But all that aside, it was a wonderful, rich story about how a man's ideals get forced into the meat grinder of real life. Higher ideals against harsh, cold reality. And actually, a really, really "make you smile, cry, yell, and smile again" kind of story. Watching the title character grow up and learn about life was a really good read on many levels.

We can only hope this poor sad putz is as fortunate. Maybe he'll grow up.

[Jester]

If it ever gets so bad I quit this job and find a different one, I think I will be quoting the great philosopher Johnny Paycheck.

"Take this job and shove it"

Hey, if you're gonna do it, go all out and quote the entire thing:

"You better not try to stand in my way as I'm walking out the door.
Take this job and shove it. I ain't working here no more."

[Misanthropical]

The last job that I quit, I just called and told my supervisor I quit and would be in to pick up my stuff and he could take it up with the head office if he wanted to know why.

I also got unemployment, so

[counterjockey]

This seems as good a time as any for us to ponder Socrates' famous last words:

"Why isn't anybody else having punch?"