Loosh Hunters on the Loose...

You walk into work, complete every job duty for the day, and then kick your feet up to relax. Everyone’s chill, the environment is relaxed, and it seems like you are going to have a good day. At least, until the boss arrives! They come through your office, angry, upset, looking you up and down, wondering why you’re not “working”. You explain that everything you needed to do is done, so you’re relaxing. The boss responds by ordering you to find something to work on so that appearances are “kept up”. Then, after, you notice that there are always eyes on you now. Even though you, the good employee, have done everything necessary for the sake of the business, it’s not enough for your boss.

That begs the question: what does the boss want if not productivity? If you’ve finished all available work, checked off every box of the checklist, and have double-checked to make sure your coworkers are fine regarding shared workplace duties, why can’t you relax? Why can’t you get on your phone and relax? Again, everything is done according to the hypothetical. There is no loophole. There’s no “job responsibility” waiting. I also frame it this way because every single employer reading this is putting my hypothetical through their personal simulation, and they’re looking for something, anything they can use to justify the hypothetical being wrong. So, I leave no room for error. If all work for the day is done, why can’t an employee relax?

The answer has nothing to do with images or productivity. The answer is loosh. The reason an employee can’t relax in the workplace despite having satisfactory productivity is that productivity isn’t the end goal. The goal isn’t to get everything done that needs to be done. The people in charge aren’t watching you to make sure you get everything done. They’re watching you to make sure you don’t seem too relaxed or casual. In other words, they’re looking for misery-levels they deem appropriate, because they feel its unfair for anyone to be enjoying work while they actively don’t. They need your misery to make themselves feel better about what they do. In other words, they want your loosh. They want to feed off your misery and pretend that’s productive.

Loosh feeders come in many different forms, also. That person who hates fat people, but then mocks fat people when they try to lose weight, also? Loosh hunter. That person only wants to feed off the misery of the fat people they dislike. There is nothing constructive a fat person can do to earn respect from the loosh hunter because the hunter only really wants your negativity. To see you doing better robs them of a free meal. They’ll never relent for the same reason a lion won’t stop and reconsider your individuality and dreams mid-meal. The only proper thing to do is chase them off.

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Loosh hunters exist in various parts of society, also. Bullies, pedophile politicians, overeager bosses, and pretty much any human looking to continuously engage in overreaching behavior without any pushback are loosh hunters. Classical demons and evil spirits are also loosh hunters, which is why they feed off the negativity they can access. Pretty much anyone looking for negative reactions to use as self-fuel is a loosh hunter.

Also, to define loosh, loosh is just negativity. Loosh is your bad day. Don’t let work farm your bad days. Afterall, you won't enjoy any of the yields.