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Showing up and fulfilling the expectations of employment, while not going out of one's way — in a period of record inequality, when the average American is enduring stagnant or declining wages — should in no way be equated with "quitting" one's job.

It would be like going out of one’s way to strike a nerve.

Essentially, it is an emotional response to a belief that one’s autonomy is being impinged on or threatened, and it typically involves an impulse to go out of one’s way to break the offending rule and thereby regain freedom and independence.

Going out of one’s way to maximize the face time of a hyperpartisan like Jim Jordan in a high-stakes public hearing is not a persuasion strategy.

A new play by a dramatist who lives and works here, on a topic of homegrown resonance, is a venture worth going out of one’s way to encourage.