#2 Making Unemployment Sites Crash

Tech savvy folk are flocking to the internets to sign up for unemployment benefits immediately after being laid off, causing sites to crash nationwide. Panicked about figuring how to make ends meet during the downtime has led to a lot of lamenting about how the government has once again failed its people. Those who have been stockpiling canned goods and bottled water waiting for the world to end are suddenly unable to think of Plan B: pick up that phone book you’ve been using as a door stop, look up unemployment office telephone number, dial said number on your fancy iPhone, drive to the office, say hello to the long line of resourceful people (read: poor), fill out paper application, hand it in. People have been sucking up unemployment benefits long before the internet was invented, my friends.

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