Anything that may influence circumstances so that one may continue in one's current employment, regardless whether the job actually needs to be performed.
An excuse that douchebags use when they make a mess after a janitor or custodian has just cleaned something up. The logic behind it is that the cleaner has nothing better to do with their life, so if you don't make a mess, they will have nothing to do and will lose their job.
He just mopped the floor. Quit hacking loogies all over the place.
I know he mopped it. Job security.
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. PenguinBooks,1992. p. 38)