History PlayingWith / NEET

* '''Enforced''': The writer feels the need to [[AcceptableTargets target those who are currently unemployed]], so he creates Alex.

* '''Reconstructed''': It's shown that Alex could solve his problems if he just found a job that looked better and applied to it, but he never does. This makes it his fault; not that he cares.

** JobStealingRobots have become so good that a large proportion of humans like Alex are not only unemployed, they are unemployable because there simply isn't any job in existence that a robot couldn't do more efficiently. Large swathes of the population are now looked down upon with no means of getting out of it.

* '''Exaggerated''': Alex has never gone to school in his childhood and has never worked in his adult life, yet he still earns money on a monthly basis. Others hate him to the point of considering him worse than a murderer and a rapist. [[HypocriticalHumor Even other jobless people hate him for this.]]

* '''Double Subverted''': It was a lie he made up to get people to leave him alone.

* '''Invoked''': Alex quits his job with the intention to do this.

** "What's the deal with you people hating others for not having a job? Has the capitalist propaganda brainwashed you all?!"
** "[[ThereShouldBeALaw It should be a crime to not want to work for a living.]]"

** Alex is not only ostracized by society for not wanting to work, but he also becomes unhappy, homeless, and suicidal.
** Alex is mocked for being jobless so long that this pressures him into finding a job. It turns out that the job he applied for is an awful experience because he is paid very little or never at all, and he is bullied and abused by his boss and his co-workers, especially if they knew this was his first time working. All that Alex wishes he could do is to drop out of society.

** Alex goes to [[LaboriousLaziness ridiculous lengths to avoid going to any sort of school or work.

* '''Straight''': Alex stays at home playing video games and watches television and has never applied for a job. As a result, this earns him mockery and contempt from others and the indignation of his friends.
* '''Exaggerated''': Alex has never gone to school in his childhood and has never worked for all of his life, despite that he still earns money on a monthly basis. Others hate him to the point of considering him worse than a murderer and a rapist. [[HypocriticalHumor Even other jobless people hate him for this.]]

** Alex doesn't like the idea of having to work all of his life just to maintain his house, gas, electricity, etc., and considers it to be a pointless rat race.

* '''Inverted''': Alex has a job and loves working. This earns him the scorn and contempt from others who think he should quit his job.

* '''Zig Zagged''': DependingOnTheWriter, Alex may be unemployed or may work at home. People's attitudes also vary.

* '''Exploited''': A CorruptCorporateExecutive hires Alex to carry out an evil plan with the promise he will get respect without doing much work.

** Alex decides to go to school or find a job just to avoid attracting criticism from others.

* '''Conversed''': ???
* '''Implied''': Alex seems pretty lazy, but it's not explicitly said that he is unemployed.

* '''Reconstructed''': It's shown that Alex could solve his problems if he just found a job that looked better ad applied to it, but he never does. This makes it his fault, not that he cares.
* '''Played For Drama''': Alex is DrivenToSuicide after being endlessly targeted for being jobless.

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* '''Zig Zagged''': DependingOnTheWriter, Alex may be unemployed or may work at home. People's attidudes also vary.

* '''Defied''': Alex's friends take the initiative to get Alex out of his house and find a job.

** Alex is mocked for being jobless so long that this pressures him into finding a job. It turns out that the job he applied for is an awful experience because he is paid very little or not at all, and he is bullied and abused by his boss and his co-workers. All that Alex wishes he could do is to leave a terrible society.
* '''Reconstructed''': It's shown that Alex could solve his problems if he just found a job that looked better ad applied to it, but he never does. This makes it his fault.

'''Basic Trope''': A character who's not in employment, education or training.

** Alex doesn't like the idea of having to work all of his life just to maintain his house, gas, electricity, etc., considering it to be pointless.

* '''Enforced''': The writer creates Alex as a way to [[AcceptableTargets target those who are currently unemployed.]]

** Alex is not only ostracized by society for not wanting to work, but he also becomes homeless and suicidal.

* '''Implied''': Alex seems pretty lazy, but it's not explicitly said that he is unemployed.

* '''Zig Zagged''': ???

* '''Invoked''': ???
* '''Exploited''': ???

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%%* '''Reconstructed''': ???

'''Basic Trope''': A character who's not in employment, in education or in training.
* '''Straight''': Alex stays at home playing video games and watches television and has never applied for a job. As a result, this earns him the mockery and contempt from others and the indignation of his friends.

* '''Downplayed''': ???

* '''Averted''': ???

** Alex is mocked for being jobless so long that this pressures him into working. It turns out that the job he applied for is stressful because he is paid very little or not at all, and he is bullied and abused by his boss and his co-workers. All that Alex wishes he could do is to leave a terrible society.

** "What's the deal with people looking down on others for not having a job? Has the capitalist propaganda brainwashed you all?!"

** Alex doesn't like the idea of having to work all of his life just to maintain his house, gas, electricity, etc.