Why didn't he just take the job at grey matter? It wouldn't be charity since he'd be earning his own money

Why didn't he just take the job at grey matter? It wouldn't be charity since he'd be earning his own money.

Because he is complete and utter ass who can't swallow his pride, even if it means endangering his family and other relatives

it wouldnt have been as entertaining

because shit writing

Because they fucked him over. Imagine you get fucked in the ass by 20 male blacks, and ten years later they come back and ask you if you'd like to suck their cocks now for some monetary compensation. Wallet was right to tell them to piss off, there's only so much humiliation a man can take

Walt left the company on his own.

because Elliott had annoying ears

>Wallet was right to tell them to piss off
>Wallet

lol

why didnt he just start a coffee company with gale?

Walt, Elliot and Gretchen were all friends in graduate school, Walt and Gretchen were dating and were apparently planning on getting married. Walt and Elliot came up with an plan to start a company together. Gretchen was apparently from a wealthy family and convinced them to provide the capital investment, and Walt and Elliot both left grad school to build the company. While the company was still small, Walt had some sort of falling out with the other two. He and Gretchen broke up, they had some kind of dispute about running the company that Walt refuses to talk about, and he accepted a $5,000 buyout. The company went on to become huge, while Walt never came anywhere near that kind of success again, and is perpetually bitter about it.

From Gretchen and Walt's interactions, he apparently broke up with her during a weekend at her family's place. She seems, even years later, completely perplexed as to why he left, he just back from an outing, packed his bags and left, refusing to tell her why. Walt seems to blame her, somehow, but never gives his side of the story. From the show creators, we're told that Walt resented her family for being rich, and felt disconnected and inadequate.

>con't

Based on Walt's personality, my guess is that he was out with some of Gretchen's relatives, and some things were said that really hit his pride. Maybe they were bragging about their money, needling Walt for being poor, joking about him marrying Gretchen for her money. He got royally pissed and, instead of talking with her and trying to work it out, just left in a huff, and was too prideful to reconcile with her, leading to their breakup. Still sore about it, he basically picked some kind of fight with them over the direction of the company, and refused to compromise, until the only option was to buy him out. It's not clear whether he was angling for a buyout to get away from them, or if it was an unintended consequence of him refusing to deal with his hurt feelings.

In any case, it's clear that Walt saw his brains and efforts as being the motor that drove the company, and assumed that he could build another one from the ground up, probably while he watched Grey Matter go down in flames without him. The fact that he never achieved much of anything, while the company became a runaway success was always a source of serious bile for him, and a major factor behind his determination to become hugely successful in something before he died, even if that something was a drug empire

He says as much to Gretchen. The entire situation stems from some perceived slight he had that they were making fun of him by parading around their wealth. She seems flabbergasted by the entire idea.

Basically he was a cock his entire life and the success he had was too good for him.

bad writing/plothole. Plebs say "muh pride" but that's just rationalizing an outlandish totally unrealistic premise, which the show requires (muh gifted chemist badass criminal mastermind)

cuz Starbucks and Folgers will probably rape them as hard corporately as drug dealers would in the criminal world.

>why didn't X character do X?
because then there wouldn't be a show you fucking autists

>"Wallet" left the company on his own only for the company to become big afterwards
They offered him a job and to pay for his cancer treatment.
Wallet should have been grateful.

because the job opportunity was charity. plus he'd be an employee at a business he co-founded, not at the helm of it.

This. Imagine working as a middleman in a company which you've founded.

They never offered him a job before he got cancer.
If I remember correctly, he’s excited by the prospect until he learns that they know about his health. Then, he realizes it’s not that they need his chemistry expertise; it’s an excuse to help him pay for his treatment.

grateful isnt in walts vocab
i think this sums up his personality pretty well

I guess he felt they were offering him the job out of pity due to his cancer, not because they actually valued his expertise and what he brought to the company. It's still retarded though.

Walt WAS demonstrably a genius though, it's difficult to believe that he couldn't do better than high school chemistry teacher. Easily the most unrealistic aspect of the show.

They were

Is it?
He left grad school before graduating to pour all his time and effort into a company, which he then walked away from. He knocked up his wife and needed some sort of paycheck, so he took a shitty job teaching high school chemistry.
It takes a lot of time and effort hunting for a job, especially when you’re already working full time and taking care of young kids. It’s not hard to believe he’d stick with teaching for years, just to keep up with the bills. And after that, people get stuck in a rut. Without a degree or any work experience to point to, what’s he going to do? Walk into a lab and say ‘let me show you what a genius I am at chemistry!’
It would’ve taken a lot of work, and life has a way of grinding you down.

Alas, I have become The Breaking Bad

>Without a degree or any work experience to point to, what’s he going to do?
Point out that research he did that contributed to winning a Nobel Prize?

Again, the guy is a fucking genius. You've made an admirable attempt at justifying the show's premise, but come on.

>It turns out we were Breaking Bad this whole time