Not Long After Tim Had Been on the Job, a Co-Worker

question 26

Multiple Choice

Not long after Tim had been on the job, a co-worker told him, "Joanne gets crazy if you're not here on time. I was late from lunch one time and she let me have it!" The co-worker's comment is an example of a(n) __________.

• A) enhancement rite
• B) corporate story
• C) personal story
• D)collegial story
• E) interaction ritual

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Definitions:

Death Instincts

A concept in psychoanalytic theory referring to an unconscious drive towards decay, destruction, or death.

Personality

A set of emotional, behavioral, and cognitive tendencies that make up an individual's character.

Pleasure Principle

The principle by which the id functions to avoid pain and maximize pleasure.

Id

To Freud, the aspect of personality allied with the instincts; the source of psychic energy, the id operates according to the pleasure principle.