A) To be perfectly honest, we all know he doesn't want to do that job. The only reason he preferred HHM over his posting down the road was he had a better chance for his brother to see directly that he was doing good work. We haven't seen Jimmy truly enjoy a job other than building his case for HHM against the resting homes, and while his care for the elderly was mostly genuine it became pretty clear near the end that he also needed his brother to accept he'd both done a good thing and done good work doing that good thing. Otherwise he would NOT have been going so hard on that case.


B) He's coming from the super rigid world of private practice lawyering, and the standards of the people he was applying with weren't up to his new expectations for himself. He wouldn't be back in the supply closet but he'd be back working for a strip mall business, and one that was more worried about selling its product to whoever'd buy it than keeping up appearances or making sure their employees were the "right fit". As we learned later, he put eyes on that statue and immediately considered how he could steal it; we can assume whether he took the job or not, he was going to steal that thing. So, him knowing that, he's disappointed with the two guys that they aren't going to background check him, realize who he is and, even if they hire him, suppress him the way all his other bosses did.

I think he realized in that moment he could run wild on people like that given the chance, and so he took a bit of pity on them by turning down the job offer as he began to formulate the heist plot.



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