Boss - "Hey Bert since I pay you a rather nice salary can you help out to move these really light boxes over there?"
Highest payed employee "No Ernie! That's not my job!" Bert then vanishes for the rest of the day hiding in dark corners waiting to go home early as they "worked" their lunch break.
Another employee rolls their eyes as they say to the boss - "Bert's one of those pathological avoidance persons"
Highest payed employee "No Ernie! That's not my job!" Bert then vanishes for the rest of the day hiding in dark corners waiting to go home early as they "worked" their lunch break.
Another employee rolls their eyes as they say to the boss - "Bert's one of those pathological avoidance persons"
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Get the Zoologist Onto Dichotomies In Avoiding Cysts (Zodiac)《Angel Jose Robles: The Only Juvenile Release mug.Avoidance-wars (noun): The phenomenon occurring when two or more individuals engage in a mutual attempt to evade eye contact while traversing shared spaces, resulting in a situation akin to a standoff where neither party successfully averts the gaze, leading to a temporary stalemate in their paths.
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