I ' m pretty sure saying you ' re taking off and then folding when the boss laughs at you , means you ' re his spineless bitch at that point . Making up bullshit like it ' s a retaliatory firing just makes you look like a pretentious dipshit . Like I said , ask . If the answer ' s no , then make the choice to either show up or not depending on how bad you need the job . But , the jump from Walmart to , say , working at Target isn ' t exactly a leap of faith so it ' s not a major , life altering decision . <| sep |> really ? I thought just had skin in place of a penis <| sep |> Just finished reading that for my English lit circlrd <| sep |> Because they want an easy excuse to not try . It ' s much easier to give up when you don ' t think you have any shot to begin with .