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Author: Westrim

Feb 28th 2013 at 4:54:02 PM

But that's about people of great deeds/ position who are asked to ''do'' inane tasks. This is about people of great deeds/ position who ''get'' no future consideration for it. It's a complete reversal in the flow of action, and one can happen without the other. Trying to push them into the same slot renders a SquarePegRoundTrope.

For some real world correlation, consider diplomatic immunity. They may well still do the errands like grocery shopping, per DudeWheresMyRespect, but if they get a misdemeanor such as a traffic ticket, they can shrug it off- they have resume inertia in their job description. Of course, they lose that inertia when they are no longer diplomats. Other people with various forms and duration of inertia include Medal of Honor recipients, Members of Congress and the President, and anyone with a pension, most of whom still have to do fetch quests. Conversely, many former members of the military get plenty of respect, sometimes in the form of free drinks at bars or something, but find they have NoResumeInertia because no one apparently wants an artillery gunner. That's an after job example, but in job inertia can also be highly variable, such as a worker of several years at a company claiming to get fired because of one missed quota.