hes lazy and selfish ; he gets into trouble taking short-cuts at work at the power company while depending on the union to bail him out ; having got his job only because his father was the union president , he is never in danger of working himself to deathin fact , taking advantage of the sick-leave policy his father negotiated years ago , he has no difficulty in using the slightest indisposition to generate a week or two of sick leave where he can recover by fishing and boozing .