Dante Syndrome is when someone works at a crappy dead end job (usually minimum wage). Instead of taking responsibility and making a change, they become complacent and take their job way too seriously. Named after Dante Hicks from the Kevin Smithfilm Clerks
Person 1: Why the fuck, on her day off, is she coming into Wendy's on a Saturday night to clean.
Person 2: She has a bad case of Dante Syndrome.
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)