The 5 Worst Workers in Literature

The list, care of Publisher's Weekly.

From said list...

1. Ignatius J. Reilly from A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole

The modern Don Quixote enters the workforce after his mother crashes into a building and can’t pay the debt back. Ignatius gets a filing position at Levy Pants (a job he is late to every morning), where he immediately and cheerfully goes about making some changes to the office, including throwing papers in the trash to make more space in the filing cabinet. He writes a letter on his boss’s behalf (and without his permission) to Levy Pants’s distributor, Abelman’s Dry Goods, calling the letter’s recipient a mongoloid and promising to lash him. For his last effort at Levy Pants, which he calls the “Crusade for Moorish Dignity,” Ignatius leads a demonstration against the office manager, Mr. Gonzalez, convincing the factory workers to demand higher wages, a protest that ends with Ignatius screaming at the workers to attack Mr. Gonzalez before he can even respond. He ends up on the street, where he soon finds a job as a hot dog vendor for Paradise Vendors. But Ignatius is no better at this either, preferring to eat the hot dogs rather than sell them.