job fright

English

Etymology

From job +‎ fright, modelled after stage fright, speech fright, camera fright, etc.

Noun

job fright (uncountable)

  1. (rare) The fear of losing a job.
    • 1912, Business: The Magazine for Office Store and Factory:
      As a result everything was done that men in an acute stage of "job fright" could do to discredit the new system.
    • 1933, Robert Otis Pickard, Your Job: How to Get it and how to Keep it, page 64:
      Once seated, let the employer begin the interview. Turn back to the first of this chapter and read again about "job fright."
    • 1949, Summaries of Ph. D. Dissertations Submitted to the Graduate School of Northwestern University in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy, volume 17:
      The employees of both groups thought that the problems of job adjustment consisted of the following elements, in order of importance: job fright, customer contact, and the lack of adequate store and school training.
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