I think he was an employee in a store or an accountant in that one. Nobody told stories like the Twilight Zone.
The early black and white ones had almost a film noir quality about them. Some were instant classics, extremely well done and thought provoking, but all were entertaining and had a moral to pass on.
Of course, I might be biased, lol, my mother apparently got herself scared silly while watching a Twilight Zone episode, not long before she went into labor with me. Something to do with a woman hitchhiking, and she turned out to be dead? It doesn’t get replayed often, from the one time I saw it myself, I just remember the car the old guy was driving, who kept offering to give her a lift ... Mercury Turnpike Cruiser, big old atomic age chrome barge. That, and they were in a desert.