Those private citizens who sent packages to our troops occupying Germany after World War II and marked them GIFT to escape duty payments did not bother to find out that "Gift" means poison in German.

Typically, a job promotion (from developer to architect, for example) is seen in larger organizations as a means to escape the dirty job of writing code.

This phobia is sent in motion when the sufferer is in a situation from where he feels there is no easy means of escape.