Sounds like the latter.

Seems to me you already know the answer to that.

Is he employed by the US Government:):)

No it is not your fault, he just sounds bone idle to me.

Locate a low-cost mental health screening agency in your town. Have him get tested for what is called a co-morbid brain disorder. See if there might be something causing this behavior. Stick by him....he needs your help to get through this.

He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else. -Benjamin Franklin Just as true today as it was when he said it. If you want to test this, refrain from asking him about his next job at all. Don't ask even about the slightest detail. See if he finds a new excuse for quitting.

I'd be interested in what work-related questions could upset him so much? Could you give some examples? Tell him this fable. Maybe it will strike a chord... The Ass and His Masters AN ASS, belonging to an herb-seller who gave him too little food and too much work made a petition to Jupiter to be released from his present service and provided with another master. Jupiter, after warning him that he would repent his request, caused him to be sold to a tile-maker. Shortly afterwards, finding that he had heavier loads to carry and harder work in the brick-field, he petitioned for another change of master. Jupiter, telling him that it would be the last time that he could grant his request, ordained that he be sold to a tanner. The Ass found that he had fallen into worse hands, and noting his master's occupation, said, groaning: "It would have been better for me to have been either starved by the one, or to have been overworked by the other of my former masters, than to have been bought by my present owner, who will even after I am dead tan my hide, and make me useful to him." Moral of the story: He that finds discontentment in one place is not likely to find happiness in another.