Plenty of unemployed people will bemoan their situations and make every effort to remind their friends and family that they’re struggling to make ends meet without a job “in this economy”. Then there are the cool unemployed people who will make every effort to make light of their situation so as not to burden said [...]
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For some unknown reason, unemployed people continue to complain about “rising gas prices” despite the fact that prices per gallon have drastically crashed along with the rest of the economy after hitting peak prices in 2008. It’s as if their minds are stuck in a time warp, back to when they were employed and had [...]
Continue reading about #14 Griping About Gas Prices By Habit
There are several reasons the unemployed are ignoring the hoopla surrounding the Economic Recovery Stimulus Plan (if that’s even the official name of it). It’s not so much that they don’t care about it, they just don’t care to try to figure out what’s going with the whole thing. Why concentrate on thinking about what [...]
Continue reading about #13 Ignoring Obama’s Economic Stimulus Plan
When people are freshly laid off one of the activities they engage in is figuring out sacrifices that must be made to make ends meet. Unfortunately, personal hygiene inevitably becomes one of the first to go not because of worries of using too much water or soap, but because they’re unemployed, and they have no places [...]
Continue reading about #12 Not Showering Regularly Because What’s the Point?
Every office has a Nervous Nancy who always fears the worst will happen no matter what the scenario may be. With the steady stream of recent lay-offs, can you blame her for postulating who is the likeliest candidate to snap “in these difficult economic times”? A Nervous Nancy will needlessly fret about Tom (wears mismatching [...]
Continue reading about #11 Scaring Former Co-Workers About Going Postal
Back in the employed, clock watching days, there was nothing better than waiting to run out of the office on Fridays to jump start the weekend. But after about a week or so of unemployment the days start blending in together without distinction, and the only semblance of a schedule comes from what has been [...]
A year ago, people would have balked at the idea of moving home to live with their parents. Sure, after college, they moved back to their home town, but they made sure to pay unnecessary rent to live five minutes away with a loser roommate found off Craigslist, only to be able to prove to their parents [...]
You know all those millions of unemployed people you assumed were searching for a new job after getting laid off? Yeah, they’re not looking. They are, however, pretending to look for a job because 1) they want to save face for strangers and colleagues and 2) they are required by law to say they’re looking [...]
At a time when consumerism is down, and the public is urged to spend, the unemployed are the only ones listening, and how! Gaming is still on the rise with game consoles and games ($50 each) selling like hotcakes. When faced with the reality that they’re suddenly going to gain eight hours a day, the [...]
Continue reading about #7 Buying Game Consoles With Unemployment Checks
There’s nothing unemployed people like better than bringing unemployed octuplets into the world. Fueled by an obsession for having kids, Nadya Suleman, already a mother of six, gave birth Jan 26, 2008 to eight babies conceived through in vitro fertilization. Suleman reportedly has no husband, no job, and has been living with her parents while [...]
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