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Well, mostly it's the smug sense of superiority that comes from realizing that there's absolutely no consequences from behaving as lazily as possible. Boredom is rarely an issue for this character, even if he doesn't actually have anything to do, because of this.

 

 

Contrast [[The Slacker]]. May be [[Brilliant but Lazy]].

* [[Robert Heinlein]]'s "The Man Who Was Too Lazy To Fail" deserves a mention. It's a story about a man who dedicates himself to the task of doing as little work as possible. He joins the military (since they provide you with free room and board in addition to the paycheck of any other job). As an officer cadet, he ends up screwing around with a local girl (okay with the military, ''not'' okay with her family); rather than trying to hide his affair from her family, he simply decides to marry her (okay with her family, but forbidden by the military since cadets aren't supposed to have families) and leaves the job of hiding the marriage to his in-laws. He becomes a combat pilot (most money for least work), but quits after being transfered to an aircraft carrier (he deems it too risky) and figures out a way to draw combat pay as a cargo pilot instead. The story rambles on in that fashion for ''quite'' a while.

** Perhaps the cherry on the sundae was when he looked at his retirement options and realized that simple retirement nets you half pay while being forced out for a disability gets you three quarters. His solution: go insane (like a fox), then retire to his farm in the mountains (that he loved) and hire someone else to do all the work (that he hated).

* George on ''[[Seinfeld]]''. He has his desk altered so that he's got room to sleep under it while remaining unseen by anyone (he even has a little compartment for an alarm clock put in). He leaves his car parked at work 24 hours a day so that it looks like he's always there even when he's skipping work. He practices looking annoyed so that people will think that he's busy when he's not. But the sheer ''pinnacle'' of this trope is when he signs a one year contract with the Play Now corporation. Everyone at the office hates him and puts him through as much misery as they possibly can, but as long as he shows up each day and sits in his office (which is downgraded to an asbestos filled bunker) they have to pay him.