Alice is all work, all the time and never has time to have fun, fun is not productive. Meanwhile, Bob only cares about having fun all the times and claims to be allergic to work. If only there was some sort of golden mean... Usually, a scenario to give An Aesop about balance between responsibility and leisure, this has been seen incarnated in different ways through media but at times is just the essential characteristic between two characters. Compare All Take and No Give. Examples of All Work vs. All Play include: