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What do you do when you are Married to the Job, and the job dumps you? Many breadwinners, almost always male, derive most of their sense of self-worth and achievement from their ability to bring home the bacon. The flip side is that getting laid off can deal a devastating blow to their self-esteem, and they may conceal the fact from their wife and kids, sometimes for months. They still get up early, put on their business clothes, and leave for work — sometimes they will even complain about how exhausting office life is when they come home at the end of the day. But in the meantime, they just drift about, desperately pretending to be one of the gainfully employed, (possibly looking for a new job, but never with the kind of success that might tempt them to brag about it to their family) until their lies come crashing down with ugly consequences (the ugliest case being Pater Familicide). |
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Old Nick from Room, in the early part of the story. When he finally admits it six months in, it motivates the woman he's been keeping prisoner for years as a Sex Slave to try to escape, by fear that he may use a radical method to cut costs. | |
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Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: This was used in one episode, where the father had lost everything and killed his wife and was intending on killing his children before it was figured out it wasn't suicide. | |
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The Incredibles: Bob Parr—AKA: Mr. Incredible—starts working for Mirage (and Syndrome) after a violent outburst gets him fired from his insurance job; he can't bring himself to correct his wife's assumption that he was promoted. He uses the money he earns from Mirage's group to support his family while spending his time "at work" getting back into condition. | |
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American Girls: Kit, whose stories are set in the Great Depression, initially believes her father when he says he's going out to lunch interviews every single day. Eventually, though, she discovers that the "leftovers" he's bringing home are from a soup kitchen. | |
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Family Guy Fanon does an interesting version. In the pilot, "Death Has a Shadow", compared to the real show (see Western Animation below) Peter tells Lois he got fired from his jobnote Which he actually did in the original Pilot Pitch., though still hides him getting welfare from Lois, under him getting a new job with a big paycheck. But in Season 2's "Employee for Fire", he does hide his firing from Lois, and for a different reason of not wanting Lois to be mad he got fired again. | |
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Related to this trope: In House of Sand and Fog, the male lead doesn't want to admit to his family that the only work he can find is as a construction worker. He makes a point of wearing a suit and tie whenever he's at home. | |
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Becker: Margaret and her husband spent several series having fierce arguments and marital troubles. Eventually, it turned out he'd lost his job but didn't have the nerve to tell her. | |
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House: In the episode "Locked In", the Patient of the Week was doing this, using a friend's rat-infested basement to hunt for a new job, which is how he got sick. Likewise the Patient of the Week of the episode "Recession Proof" was a wealthy real estate developer who lost it all in the housing market crash yet still maintained his successful facade to his wife by maxing out their credit cards and getting the most highly paid (and disgusting and/or dangerous) janitorial jobs available: crime scenes, septic tanks, mold removal, etc. |
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In Great Teacher Onizuka this happens to the father of Prof. Teshigawara: he was a politician who got disgraced in an unspecified fallout in which he ended up being The Scapegoat. Said father still "goes to work" every day, acting as if he's still a big mover and shaker, and even his son doesn't know the truth. | |
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The Simpsons: Variation: Homer's life coach persuaded him to quit his job at the nuclear plant and apply for a better position at a copper piping company. He didn't get it but couldn't bear to tell his family and spends all day hanging out at Krusty Burger, filling out the map mazes on the back of the kid menus. He almost got away with it... but as luck would have it, Bart's school class ends up at that exact restaurant after bus driver Otto ruins a field trip to the zoo by taking mushrooms and riding a turtle. Another episode has a different variation. After Homer accidentally loses all their money investing in pumpkins but stupidly hanging on to the stocks well after Halloween, he can't bring himself to tell Marge and in desperation ends up getting a loan from his hated sisters-in-law, who use the loan to extort Homer into letting them abuse and humiliate him in return for keeping quiet. |
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Heroes: A Japanese man who wanted to jump off a building because he couldn't stand to tell his family that he was fired. (Turns out he hated his job anyway and still couldn't bear to tell his family he wanted to quit.) | |
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Mad Men: Don Draper forces Lane Pryce to resign after he discovers that Lane forged a bonus check to pay his taxes. That evening, Lane's wife proudly announces she's just purchased a Jaguar, without him telling her that he's now out of a job. After attempting to kill himself with the car by running its exhaust through a garden hose fails when the car doesn't start, he goes to his office and hangs himself. Don reaches an emotional low and tells an important client about his childhood growing up in a brothel. This does not go over well with the client and the other partners are furious. As Don is a founding partner they do not fire him outright but instead put him on paid leave and hire someone else to do Don's job. The unspoken understanding is that Don will quit the company on his own and everyone saves face. However, Don is unwilling to quit and instead spends his days hanging around his apartment. Megan, Don's wife, is living in California at the time while pursuing an acting career so she does not find out about the situation until months later. Whenever Don flew to California to spend time with her, he pretended that he was still employed and nothing interesting was happening back in New York. Similarly, Sally, Don's daughter from his first marriage does not find out about what happened until she is on a visit to New York and decides to surprise her father at work. Instead she finds a strange man occupying Don's office. Don is able to patch things up with Sally but Megan is furious that Don chose a soon-to-be-gone job over her. Don is very wealthy so he would have had no issue with moving to California to be with Megan full-time. |
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In Shenmue, an NPC follows a similar "get dressed for work and walk around the city pretending that you still have a job" routine that the Persona 3 character does, as detailed in his character profile. | |
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In A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Johnny and Katie Nolan share the janitor work at a neighborhood school, until the night Katie gives birth to their daughter. Johnny, having been kicked out of his own house by her sisters, gets drunk (as per tradition) and totally forgets about going to work. Turns out a pipe burst and flooded the school, and he's gotten them fired. To hide it from Katie, he goes back to singing and waiting tables, which is what he did when they met, and never holds a steady job again. Presumably his cover couldn't have lasted that long (it was her job too, after all), but we're not told when he came clean or how she took it. | |
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In Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Trials and Tribulations, Ron Delite is fired from his job as a security guard, and worries that his wife will leave him if she finds out, especially as she is a big spender and "treats money like it's water". So he turns to freelancing, reasonable. Becomes a Phantom Thief while guarding the secret from her? Not so reasonable. In the end, after she discovers all, she tells him that she wouldn't have abandoned him because she truly loved him. | |
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Yumi's Cells: A major force behind Woong and Yumi's breakup is the former's pride. As Woong's career spirals down, he can't bring himself to admit it to Yumi. It starts when Yumi shows up at Woong's apartment to surprise him, only to find out that he sold the apartment to keep the studio afloat a few weeks back. When they break up, Woong claims to have gotten a major contract, but Yumi finds out a few weeks later that the studio went under. | |
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Inspector George Gently: More like 'Unconfessed Bankruptcy', but the Victim of the Week in "Gently Among Friends" is hiding the extent of his financial troubles from his wife, even while he is pawning their belongings and passing their disappearance off as theft. | |
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Aliens in America: Gary, the father of a family hosting exchange student Raja loses his job. He's too ashamed to tell the family, so he tries to get them to cut costs. Raja, not wanting to be a burden, takes a job at a convenience store. | |
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Domina no Do!: Takeshi's father lost his job months earlier but his wife and son only find out when Takeshi gets abducted. All this time he pretended to go to the office, when in fact he just spent his days in internet cafes. | |
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In Persona 3, a nameless Salaryman you can meet around town loses his job and just continues his normal routine as if nothing happened to avoid the shame of his family finding out that he was laid off. He pulls it off for almost a year. In the Playable Epilogue, he tells you he managed to get a new job before they ever found out about his losing the first one. | |
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Subverted on American Dad!, several times. While Stan, amongst other characters, ends up losing his job on several occasions, his family seems to understand and he typically finds another job for the episode, and more often than not, gets it back by the end, if not by the time the following episode starts. This worked even when he was forced to relocate to Saudi Arabia after snapping Jay Leno's neck at his boss's roast in the "Stan of Arabia" 2-part special and renounced his family's citizenship. Even after coming back to the States, he's back at his job the very next episode no problem. | |
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In Law & Order: Criminal Intent one episode focuses on a man who had been posing as a high-level United Nations official for most of his life, having failed to secure either a lasting position or his college degree and instead living a double life to cheat others out of their money to provide for his family. When he kills an ex-con who happens to be the brother of his girlfriend, who is unaware he is actually married with children he tries to kill her to keep his secret safe and attempts to kill his own children out of shame when the police catch on to his actual identity. | |
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In the 2013 musical version of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Mr. Bucket loses his toothpaste factory job a week before the action starts. While his wife knows about this, they mutually keep it a secret from their son Charlie and their own parents — he leaves and returns to the shack at the same times he always did, but is looking for work in the interim. They are finally forced to reveal the truth when the Golden Ticket contest is announced and must break the news to Charlie that they won't be able to afford his usual birthday bar of chocolate this year (whereupon Grandpa Joe decides to give up what little change he's saved to make sure he gets it). | |
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George & Mildred: George quit his job as a Traffic Warden, but kept going out each day dressed in the uniform so Mildred wouldn't find out. Mildred eventually found out when George's boss called up to tell her George had not returned the uniform. | |
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Death of a Salesman has the protagonist Willy Loman laid off and trying to hide this fact from his family. As the name suggests, it doesn't end well. | |
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The Flintstones invoked the trope, only Fred was outright fired. | |
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Happens in Maison Ikkoku with Godai, who was laid off from his part-time job as a day caretaker and couldn't tell Kyoko about it. | |
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30 Rock: A flashback shows a young Liz accusing a Mall Santa of being a fraud, causing him to stand up, rip off his hat and beard, and shout, "You're right, little boy! I am a fraud! My wife still thinks I work at the bank!" | |
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Death in Paradise: One of the suspects in "Murder Begins at Home" claims to have been on a sabbatical from work for three months. However, when the police contact his employer, they learn he has actually been suspended for anger control issues. And he hasn't told his wife. | |
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Vera: In "Changing Tides", Vera and Aiden discover that one suspect had lost her job as a carer in an aged care home because she lied about her qualifications eight months earlier, but has not told her family. | |
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The Cleveland Show covers this in their episode "Brownsized"- Cleveland agrees to a planned severance at Waterman Cable in exchange for an unrevealed (but in Cleveland's words so large it had a comma in it) amount equivalent to 6 months severance pay. However, the moment his wife Donna finds out, she makes it clear she wants him to spend the time off doing her usual tasks. So he travels back in time to backtrack it to a less advantageous degree, then proceeded to completely blow his severance pay within weeks on extravagant food and novelty items (all the while faking a job search when he gets home at night), including eating at a local restaurant on top of a rotating tower... where Donna got one of three jobs to cover the loss. He quickly realized there was no easy way out, and fakes a protest which almost succeeded... until Mr. Waterman announced all he needed to do was pay back the severance. Which Donna only then finds out about. Needless to say, she is not happy, and punches him off the tower onto a crashpad (which she was unaware was there). He proceeds to sue his wife, and uses the settlement to pay back his boss, with Donna keeping her jobs to pay off Cleveland's settlement. | |
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An inversion of this trope that makes it, if possible, even more sad: in Billy Elliot, Billy's father, who had been on strike for months, decides to resume work as a scab in order to pay for Billy's dance lessons, without telling his older son who is still on strike. But the latter recognizes his father going to work while picketing the mining facility. It's a heartbreaking moment for both of them. | |
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A variation is used in Overboard. After Joanne washes up on shore an amnesiac and her husband abandons her in the mental hospital where she's being held, Dean goes to the hospital, claims her as his wife, "Annie," and takes her home so she can pay off the cost of the shoe cabinet she refused to pay him. When she accepts that she is indeed "Annie," they get into an argument because he insists on going bowling instead of staying home to help her raise his sons. She follows him and discovers that he works the night shift in a nearby fertilizer factory as a way to supplement his meager income as a handyman. | |
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In Revolting People, resident Butt-Monkey Ezekiel goes out and hides up a tree most days whilst pretending that he is working. | |
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Francis from Malcolm in the Middle plays it straight when he gets fired from the dude ranch and tells his wife he's on vacation. But he inverts it in the season finale where he admits he's been working for months and pretends to be unemployed to annoy his mother. | |
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Law & Order: In one episode, a technically savvy guy is fired, but rather than confess it to his family, he steals another person's identity, mortgages that person's house, and uses the resulting windfall to bluff that he is still employed. The cops only find out after the other guy tracks down the thief and shoots him. Also in another episode where a man was suspected of killing his entire family rather than admitting that he'd failed to provide for them. |
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On The Brady Bunch, after Peter lost his job at a bike shop. Not wanting to tell his family he got fired, he spent his time at the park, feeding the pigeons. | |
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Laura in The Glass Menagerie drops out of business school rather than being fired from a job, but hides it in the same way. | |
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In the Hetalia: Axis Powers fic What Your Country Can Do For You, Japan meets one of his citizens, who is too ashamed that he lost his job to go home and face his family. Japan takes the man home, where his wife is just happy to have him back and is sure he'll find another job. | |
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In Feet of Clay Sergeant Colon talks to a guy who's in this situation. It's foreshadowing as he was fired from the candle factory which has been using a (far too efficient, and insane) golem to make poisoned candles. | |
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Modern Family: Mitch does this for a while, hanging out at a park with other men in the same boat and playing chess with the homeless in between job interviews. He comes clean after being Mistaken for Cheating when Cam sees a text message from one of them. | |
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Many of the Alex strips use this joke - frequently, the poor redundant banker spends the first three panels trying to spin the situation positively before breaking the news. When Clive was laid off, he spent the best part of a year pretending to still be employed. His wife figured it out when she was able to spend a whole night without being woken by Clive's boss texting him. | |
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A variation involving teenagers and school occurred in The Proud Family: Penny and her friends ended up suspended from school the day after Valentine's Day because of a graffiti mark on the school with Penny's name on it, which neither of them actually painted on. As they were unwilling to admit to their parents that they had gotten suspended from school indefinitely until they found the true culprit was exposed, Sticky instead had created a fake call from the principal regarding them winning an award (which as the last scene revealed, was fake from the start) in place of the suspension call to hold the parents off until they caught the culprit responsible (a crippled student who is later revealed to not be a nice kid) and thus got back to school. It bites them in the butt later on. | |
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Growing Pains: Mike is given a car as a gift from his parents. Shortly afterwards, Mike loses his job at World Of Burgers because he took the fall for a co-worker's mistake. Not wanting to tell his parents out of fear of losing the car, Mike got a job at a car wash but continued to pretend he still worked at World Of Burgers, including wearing his WOB uniform when he left/came home, and dumping grease on himself before he came home to really make it look like he'd been working there. | |
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In Soul Food, youngest sister Bird's husband Lem loses his job when his employer finds out about his criminal history. He tries to find another job before she finds out, but she does anyway. Then the trope is inverted in that she asks her ex-boyfriend to give him a job, but not to let him know. Of course, the boyfriend being a Jerkass, he tells him anyway. | |
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Person of Interest: One episode introduced one of the PoIs as a man who had been laid off and tried to hide the fact from his family while looking for a new job. His desperation made him the perfect patsy for the murder of a politician who had eliminated the PoI's old job. | |
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Criminal Minds: One unsub lost his job, but instead of telling his wife, opted to cope by blowing through their savings while also setting up a fake psychiatric firm which he used to murder "patients" by exposing them to their worst fears. A homeless young adult busking in California had reported back to her mother that she'd already found a job and was doing well, so that her mother wouldn't worry. Her mother is distraught, because she would have happily sent more money that could have kept her from being targeted by the unsub. |
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Mona in Amreeka pretends to work in a bank when she's actually working in the fast-food joint next door. | |
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On Barney Miller, a stockbroker lost his job and, unwilling to tell his wife, began begging for money in the streets instead. He ended up making more money that way. | |
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One of Despair's stories in The Sandman: Endless Nights anthology is this. It is appropriately horrible. The poor fired guy is so afraid of telling his family that he turns to crime when his money runs out, while still pretending that he is going to his former job. | |
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Good Times: James invites a successful relative to dinner in hopes of borrowing some money, but during dinner, he breaks down and reveals that he lost his job weeks ago and when he says he's at work, he just sits in a movie theater all day long. | |
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Major Crimes: A minor character in "Curve Ball". The man is arrested for using a murder victim's credit card. When questioned, he admits that he found the murdered man's possessions in the dumpster behind the restaurant where he had been manager until he was fired several months ago. He apparently had not told his wife and had been scavenging food from the dumpster, and used the credit card to buy a Christmas present for his sons. | |
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Gerald in The Full Monty hasn't told his wife Linda that the steel mill at which he worked as a foreman closed down months ago, and still leaves the house every weekday morning in a suit and tie... to go to the job centre. He almost gets away with it by securing an interview for a similar job that will pay him enough money in advance to cover the debts he has accumulated, but after his former subordinates Gary and Dave sabotage his interview, the repossession men start showing up at his house and give the game away. Linda does not take the revelation well. (Ironically, he is offered the job anyway, but too late to save face.) | |
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The pilot episode of Family Guy. Peter, due to drinking too much at a Stag Party, was suffering from a hangover, and he ended up falling asleep at work. Note, he is a safety inspector at the Happy-Go-Lucky Toy Factory, which means he was grossly negligent for sleeping on the job (as it directly resulted in a number of dangerous products in place of regular toys, ranging from a Baby Heimlich spitting up fire, to a Pound Poochie being replaced with a bottle of pills, to a Silly Ball being replaced with an axe). He decided to try to keep it a secret, yet as his phrases indicate, he's doing a very bad job at trying to hide his being unemployed. | |
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In The Great Outdoors, Dan Aykroyd's character is a pompous and wealthy stockbroker, but in the end, he reveals that he lost his job some time ago, and his family is actually broke without their knowledge. | |
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Revolution: In the episode "Soul Train", a flashback reveals that Tom Neville was fired from his insurance adjuster job the day of the blackout. He didn't tell his wife about it, but it became a moot point later that night, since the blackout occurred and caused everyone to become unemployed. | |
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Cold Case: A Victim of the Week in an episode was unemployed but kept wearing business clothes every day so that nobody would know. | |
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