Have you ever quoted Aristotle in a resignation letter?

[Alfie]

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

In other words, he's too lazy to keep turning up to work? It sounds like his mind is as degraded as it can get.

[Pedersen]

Quoted Aristotle? No. Douglas Adams? Yes.

"So long, and thanks for all the fish"

To be fair, though, it wasn't my resignation letter, it was my farewell to everybody.

[Ducky Dew]

I can see the signs now:

"Will philosophise for food."

Rapscallion

Oh, that is good. I have to remember that one.

[Rapscallion]

I can see the signs now:

"Will philosophise for food."

Rapscallion

[Geek King]

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

I love this quote. It might help to point out that Aristotle was often in the employ of the wealthy when he spouted these things off. I would also like to see the full context on the situation, as I'm fairly certain he was probably advocating the sharpening of the mind after a hard days work to keep from losing your mental edge.

What? Origional topic? Oh, yeah, guy was a jerk. He's got a nasty wake-up call when he graduates. A BA in Libral Arts isn't going to help much unless you have a job that requires you to have a degree of some sort to move up, or plan to be a professor in a liberal arts program.

**Clarification** I will say that a Lib Arts degree is useful in conjunction with another degree. This could help to make you a better rounded person once you get out of the educational womb. And make you a hell of a Trivial Pursuit player.

[Boozy]

We had this guy working for us for all of six weeks. He was a flake from day one. Always late, could never balance his till, etc etc. And he was lazy as hell.

He was also a snob. He thought he was better than everyone else because he was in university. My co-worker and I chose not to inform him that we both have honours BA's ourselves. It was funnier to listen to him go on and on about how a liberal arts education helps you look at the world in an enlightened fashion, and how he is on a different "plane" than everyone else.

My manager finally decided we had to fire him before his probation period ended. He saw the way the wind was blowing and handed in a two page resignation letter. I did my very best to get a copy of it for you guys, but failed.

The basic gist of it was that he is living in a world of "high ideals" and while the company's aims are "righteous" in and of themselves, they are no longer "coherently co-existing" with his own "loftier philosophical aspirations". He concludes with this:

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

And for all his talk of "high ideals", we're now relatively certain he stole a few hundred dollars worth of wine from us.

I wonder how the smarmy son of a bitch plans on paying for his tuition next semester, without one of those "degrading" paid jobs.