Stuff Unemployed People Like is a blog intended to bring some humor into the lives of those affected by “this global economy” mostly by poking fun at them. It is updated on weekdays to give the unemployed some semblance of structure and to remind them of their employed days when they would check their favorite blogs first before starting to work.
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Great Web site! We featured you on the latest edition of The Recession File and added a link on Jobacle.com.
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I like podcasts. They’re usually free and if you download the public radio-y ones (see: stuff white people like), you have yourself a guilt-free way of killing time.
Hi! It’s Jacqueline! Didn’t know you blogged! Sony just told me and I just started mine. I love yours.
Cool site Supl,
Please could you add me to your blogroll list. I saw your comment on my site and have done the same.
I do believe in these hard times, we must still continue to laugh, have fun with the circumstances given, but at the same time remember that any one of these situations could be us, so be kind in thought, and thank the stars it is not us.
Cheers,
CruVic (Mike)
Adding you to my blogroll. So nice hearing other people’s funny stories from unemploymentland. If you can’t have fun while being dealt a big pile-of-stank, then you have a very long painful path ahead of you! Fun stuff!
Great site. Great site. The only way to deal with all of the
“bull****” and insanity of being unemployed and broke is to laugh at it. Finally, I found another blogger with a sense of humor about this whole thing. Keep at it. Great site, great stuff.
Love the site! Featured this site on my first Blog O’ The Week. You all have a great sense of humor, exactly what we need in times like this.
http://www.bw29.wordpress.com — Recession Daily
This is like finding out I have a twin
This website keeps me sane.
People think you should try to get a job. Well, what do you do when you have gone places like GoodWill, Cracker Barrel, Wal-Mart, and etc. and you get no response. I am over 60. My birthday is April 25. Good chance not anyone wants someone my age to hire. In my earlier work years I had good jobs such as data entry clerk, receptionist, and medical file clerks. What do people expect from the ones of us unemployed; our jobs have either been sent overseas or gone electronically. The thing of it is unless other people have walked in our shoes they do not have a clue. Sure they can say try and get a job. When someone is telling you this and they have money coming in they do not really understand. It gets very depressing. I am about ready not to tell many people I know how I am really feeling. They just do not understand. I have a few friends that understand, but not that many, but at least they understand and it means very much to have them listen. If Jesus has not come back by the time I am 62 and I am still living at 62 I am going to take early retirement. Another thing our politicans that are in office I have the solution for how to balance the budget. Cut all of their salaries in half and quit using our tax money. Instead of them making all the decisions and the President the people should have a vote on all policies. As for health care why should be penalized for not buying insurance when we do not have a job and money to pay for it. Our tax money should be paying for our medical expenses and we should have the same rights as our policitons in Washington and the different states. They should not act so high and mighty. They live on our tax dollars.
It appears that you brought into lies many people today still buy into. Lies that people have brought into for centuries. Government is a poor place to look for job security. Young people would be wise to learn form what you’ve wrote here. Today there are fancy names such as 401k, Social Security, IRA etc. These are just old ideas with new names. The next aging generation will be complaining about the same thing. At 19 I was able to see through this nonsense. I don’t think this stems from intelligence 0but rather- a sense of dependance. If we do not learn from history, we’ll be forced to repeat it.
I came across your blog and found it very enlightening as it pin pointed every thing I know was wrong but failed to admit to myself. I feel I have become an addict of unemployment and although I do my best to “look” for a job, I find excuses to not go out and motivate myself.
Thanks. This actually helps me a lot!
And it is a great read!
Love your site. You have a wonderful sense of humor about unemployment.
Witty begins here! I’m laughing out loud and inwardly cringing at the same time because I can relate to more than a few things on your list. Laughter’s really the best medicine, so thank you for making this site.
You made me laugh so hard I almost peed!!!!
I love you.
Great blog! Made me feel better about being jobless and broke. Keep up the good work! I will be visiting often!
P.S. I added your blog to the “Cool link’s” section of my blog.
Awesome site! love reading the blog. Thanks for the http://www.freeshiet.com plug too.
This is the best blog ever – I’ve been unemployed for a week and a half and I think I’m dying of boredom! At least there a few things I haven’t tried yet – thank you!!
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Princess
Went looking for a site about unemployment and getting fat and found your site. It’s the funniest thing I’ve read in a long time. I just did the give a ride/fall back to sleep thing today.
The Internet does a good job of showing that at least one other person is doing the same thing / asking the same question.
Just found you on twitter and LOVED YOUR SITE AND BLOG!!! I have something similar if ur interested. Seems we have a similar approach to unemployment… better to laugh than cry!
So i found your blog through Kristin C. Shes a friend of mine and i lost my job yesterday so we went out for drinks, naturally.
anyway she told me about your blog and how you hate hugs.
its funny!
GREAT BLOG!
I’ve recently started blogging myself about my unemployed “Active Leisure” lifestyle.
I’d like to add you to my blogroll if you wouldn’t mind considering the same?
My “Active Leisure” blog
Maybe write a blog about those greedy, work-addicted baby boomers; like the gong show at age 90, they will still be working for their 4K (or is that 401K or 41K) thanks to those fraudulent mutual funds (better luck in vegas).
Stuff boomers like.
Greed
Money
never retiring
loyalty to boss
loving boss
huge homes
luxury cars
never retiring
money
greed
never retiring
money
greed
money
greed
Boomers.
Great site.
Don’t forget the 99 cent store and Dollar Tree.
Where else can you get a week’s worth of food for $5.
I have found “my people”!!
Thank you for giving me some much needed laughs. Thought I had finally (finally!) landed a job last week but alas …
I generally try to be pretty upbeat but right now am not the least bit interested in making lemonade with the lemons life has handed me. Just let that yellow citrus set there and rot into a mushy mess for all I care right now.
I really appreciate your fine work — maybe the best revenge to being let go is living well (if cheaply) … and having a lot of laughs!
I WAS LOOKING FOR A SITE SPECIFICALLY FOR
MOTHERS OF the UNEMPLOYED
BUT
I came across this site and as I was reading …..
I was thinking……………..
yep I have one just like this … in fact I have two
Daughter came back home (lucky though ….working as a Physiotherapist for the NHS here in Cornwall, England if you are wondering where that is we are the County at the very end toe of Great Britain). Came home to save for a deposit for a house??? 15 months ago …. rental market so expensive with all the buy to rent landords needing to meet their financiers.
…… a Son with a Foundation Degree in Telecommunications
now unemployed for over a year with only temporary work on occassions to see him through, did I say see him through…. no such luck paying his way by doing chore around the house
So to all of you living with your parents ..
A few tips from the experienced Mum trying to support the unemployed and financially struggling kids.
REMEMBER ….. It is our home, rules of old still stand SO
continue to respect it AND your parents,
ask for help,
try to pay your way .. if not with a small amount of rent then with doing some chores especially if Mum works …. You don’t know how much it is appreciated if
the dishes are washed,
house vaccumed,
beds made,
washing put on the line,
hedges cut,
patio scrubbed,
car washed etc
In our house each has a price …. so you can pay off the rent with favours better still if its for love
At least try to find a job
Internet only is not good enough
Think outside of the computer box
Put a wanted ad on a roundabout, in the paper, in a carpark,
anywhere where employers might get to see it.
Make your CV stand out with graphics, or video clips etc
Do some voluntry work in the field you are looking for a job in.
Work for nothin in exchange for a week/month work experience for a company you might like to work for.
Start up window cleaning, car cleaning, grass cutting, etc
Deliver brochures,
Most of all TALK TO MUM AND DAD… Believe it or not …. they
might just be the only ones with the TIME to give you a hand.
From a frustrated mum of an unemployed son…..
OMG!!! Just stumbled upon your blog today. Went through all of it and it is DEAD ON!! I have been unemployed for longer than I’d like to admit. The funniest entry was the one on the useless diplomas…I have a Wharton MBA and it is absolutely useless. Can’t even get a temp job with it. Might as well save a little money and use it as toilet paper…
I have a Wharton MBA too. I can’t get a single interview. MBAs suck never waste your money. These schools justwjust want to make money. There are so many unemployed Wharton MBAs I know I can’t count. Maybe at one point it was a useful degree but these schools forced out they can keep increasing degrees even if alums are stuck with 200k debt.
I am currently living my worst nightmare-
*I’m a 34-year old male (single…shocking, ain’t it?).
*I’ve been unemployed for 17 months and counting.
*To avoid going back “home” to mom and dad, I’ve been living with my 89-year old grandmother for more than a year! Somehow, that seemed like a better ‘temporary’ alternative than my parents (who live next door and have a finished 2100 sq. ft. basement (looking like my ‘dream home’ at this point)!
*My four year accounting degree and 12+ years of experience in the construction industry are worthless in this economic climate! There’s a few hundred thousand unemployed folks with equal or greater education and/or experience in this same area.
Long story short, some days I wish that I didn’t drive a Volvo so I could drive into a brick wall!!! But I’d just have a few minor injuries (from the dozens of airbags inflating like some sort of life-raft from hell) and be car-less on top of everything else!
The only thing that keeps me sane is being able to laugh at how sh!tty my life has become. Your site certainly helps me in that regard…and helps me pass the endless waking hours doing something other than pretending to look for a job! =)
still unemployed? there is always hope!!
Happy Thanksgiving! I found your site while searching to see if Whole Foods accepts EBT or food stamp cards. I am two years unemployed, without unemployment benefits and I recently applied for and received food stamps. I rely on roommate income, bartering, and a little entrepreneurial stuff using my food stamp income of $200 p/month. What I am doing is purchasing the groceries mostly at a very reasonable ethnic market, making hearty homemade soups and selling them to friends,neighbors and former business associates. I use a daily email to market them, I make the soup in my home, and I deliver (thank God I have a paid-for late model car.) Anyway, I can usually turn the food stamp income of $200 into $600-700 of monthly income. How rogue and mavericky is THAT?
I just found your blog and I’m freaking loving it. I really needed this. I just finished crying my eyes out from the last “thank you for interviewing BUT…” email (a freaking EMAIL and I went out in the snowstorm to interview!) but I you’ve really lifted my spirits. Keep it coming, I sure as hell need it.
I just discovered this site! I was lost and now I am found!! I have done just about everything mentioned in your blogs! I am sitting in a coffee cafe right now for free wifi eating my home made ham and cheese……using the same bottle of water the cafe sells filled with tap water from home!! Love it!! I’ll check in every day from now on!!
I just came across your website & want to take time to read it –it’s a great idea. My husband Mike & I have both been unemployed since September 2008 — he’s a graphic artist w/a B.A. in Fine Arts; I’m an experienced paralegal/legal assistant w/2 B.A.s cum laude from U.T. Dallas in Engish Lit & Philosophy. We were just talking to each other about the way employed & comfortably retired people who currently live comfortable, satisfying lives, clearly try to avoid us as much as possible now, even including most fellow members & clergy of our church! People who were once very warm & cordial to us now act as if we are lepers or some other type of “undesirables,” despite the fact that we continue to this day to do volunteer work to help others, are dedicated job seekers, & are now also working very hard remodeling/improving the house we are renting (in a very rough low income neighborhood in East Fort Worth, TX, per an agreement we made with our wonderful landlady/friend) in lieu of paying rent during the remodeling period. (She gets 1 of her rental properties repaired/spruced up from the slum hole/gang banger property it was when we 1st moved here into a decent, attractive, clean rental property that will be much more enticing for future good, respectable renters. In return, we don’t have to pay rent while we’re doing the remodeling, & she is also paying for some of the larger remodeling items/materials, so it’s a “win-win” situation for everyone. Plus, both my husband & I have restored 3 historic homes of our own prior to living here & have done lots of work with Habitat for Humanity & our own church’s “Sowing Seeds” ministry, which does remodeling/repair jobs for other church members who need help. So, we have lots of experience in remodeling/repairing/
improving run-down houses & are doing a very professional, careful, conscientious job on our rental house.
Over Christmas, our newest vehicle (a 2006 Nisaan Altima) broke down due to a major manufacturing defect with the alloy wheels that had been recalled by Nissan but which Nissan refused to honor despite the recall. That wrecked car (wrecked due to alloy wheels exploding) is now evidence in a class action lawsuit against Nissan. Our other old car — a 1994 Geo Prizm –finally bit the dust on Christmas Eve after many years of reliable service. So now we have no car & are having to get around via terrible Ft. Worth bus system or on foot til we save up some $$$cash & can buy an older vehicle outright. No one will offer to give us a ride — even when they live just a coupla minutes away & when they are going themselves anyway — to the store, to church, to Home Depot/Lowe’s/discount building supply stores, to — anywhere. People who know us will drive right past us while we’re hiking to the store & just pretend they didn’t see us when we know they did. We try to contact church members in the various volunteer groups/ministries in which we are volunteers to find out our designated hours on the volunteer schedule so we can participate like we promised to do, but no one returns our calls or gives us an answer/reply anymore. People see us & turn around to walk the other way to avoid us.
We’ve never asked anyone to borrow money, & we’ve never given anyone any reasons to think we would ever do so. We are just so disgusted & disappointed in the way people have turned their backs on us when all we’ve wanted from them was just to have some friends to hang with & laugh/joke with, do our volunteer work with, etc. while we go through this rough time in our lives & thereby help us better get through it. And we know with certainty that we will get through it someday, even though it’s an extremely slow, frustrating process right now with the economy in such a mess. My husband & I know we will again be better off someday b/c we are both positive, upbeat people who realize that all we can do is make the best of it right now, vote intelligently/conscientiously, count our blessings (like having such great landlady), & work hard to dig ourselves out of this mess. We have continued to be lighthearted & positive, even humorous, about our situation when around other people. But despite our cheerful demeanor, people still avoid us like the plague. It’s both embarrassing for us as well as disappointing/disgusting to us to find that people we’ve known & thought highly of for years would turn a blind eye/cold shoulder on us when we found ourselves in this position. And it’s not like we are the only ones around with this problem — unemployment/layoff stats are reported on the news every day now just like the weather.
However, except for our landlady & 1 other older female friend/mentor, everyone else clearly acts uncomfortable when we are near them. I believe such people are now uncomfortable around us b/c we represent what might well happen to them if they are met with the same situation we are currently in. But instead of being a supportive network of friends, church members, et al., they all now keep a low profile when around us. Even former “friends” who live just a few blocks away from us (a couple of minutes) from us & could easily give us a ride to the store or to church when they are going themselves anyway — & giving us a ride would not inconvenience them whatsoever — just ignore the fact that we now have no vehicle/transportion & could use occasionally use such “rides” now & then when they know perfectly well that we’re stranded.
Oh well, I’ll get off my soapbox now & get back to remodeling . . . Thx & best of luck to anyone/everyone who was patient/interested enough to read this!!!
Kim Kranker
Hi Kim,
We share a very similar set of experiences….I have been unemployed since April 2009, no car (had to sell it)and can not find a job ANYWHERE…only by the grace of sweet holy Moses LOL….and the kindness/support of great neighbors have I made it this far. I’m very lucky as my neighbors offer their car’s to me at almost any time…I run to the grocery store and other errands for them in exchange, even wash the car at times. I am a volunteer at a large hospital in the ER and am very thankful for the latest extension of UC I am collecting….I wish the best for you and your husband…NEVER give up and keep laughing! There is good in this world….it’s just hard to see it sometimes!
I, too, have been unemployed for a year and a half now although I’ve had a long professional career. I can relate to the comments above about finding out who your true friends are. It’s been a rude awakening, but one that has motivated me to change my thinking to attract new, more genuine people into my life.
I decided early on to make the best of it and so expanded my marketing skills onto the Internet. It’s been a frustrating journey because the online “gurus” oversell their wares and make success sound like it’s going to be overnight. I focused on all the free stuff and have learned a ton but not made much money.
Last summer, almost exactly a year ago, I started a blog focused on helping others, a href=”http://www.EmployTheUnemployed.com”>”Employ The Unemployed” but soon discovered that even getting traffic to the blog was hard. My original intent was to start a “Pay-it-Forward” fund to help provide resources to the unemployed, but the project didn’t thrive. As a result, I switched to other projects, but now, I’m being drawn back to it.
The focus of the blog originally has completely changed over time. I’d really appreciate your input as to what you’d like to see and what would best help you. I’m considering making a “30-day Guide to Surviving Unemployment” that includes stress relief techniques, job search motivation as well as self-employment options. Do you think this would be useful? If it was available, what would you like to see in it? If you have any comments, I’d love to hear from you so I can include what people want. You can click the above link to leave a comment on the blog. Thanks!
I LOVE LOVE LOVE your site!
51 years old
Female
Middle manager
MBA and 15 years of experience in banking/risk management
Consistent good and excellent employee performance ratings
Laid off due to business decision after an acquisition
Unemployed since August 2010
Completed one three-month contract position
Will lose UI benefits by end of July
Applied for 100s of jobs
3 reject letters (the rest haven’t responded)
3 in person interviews
3 phone interviews
No offers
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Great blog, guys!
I especially love all the parts that reinforce the sterotypes so many people have that all unemployed people are lazy fuckers who don’t want to find a job and are living this way, even when it’s a dramatic reduction in their circumstances, because they want something for nothing. Because it’s not harder and harder to find work the longer you’ve been unemployed because of that crap. It’s not the reason that congress feels they can do whatever the hell they want with unemployment benefits despite the fact that almost no new jobs are being created.
Thanks so fucking much. I’ve only read the articles on the first page and i’m already disgusted. i can’t believe how many people are talking about how great this blog is!
I believe this site was written with a bit of tongue and cheek humor…
You forgot Portland, Seattle, and the state of California.
Portland’s unemployment, refugee, and homeless population is the
highest in the country (per cap). In Seattle it is not unusual to
turn a corner and hear someone bragging about their free money,
notice you, ask you for some money or a cigarette, then yell an
obscenity at you for turning them down. In CA it is not unusual to
find someone claiming unemployment all the while legally selling
marijuana under the table just to avoid getting a job.
Ha, this really amuses me. What I like about this site is
how relevant it is. Sadly enough, there were some posts that made
me nod in total agreement. Like the traffic fines. That was a
conscious though that bubbled in my brain when I backed out of my
parent’s house today–better not run into any cars because I won’t
be able to avoid the charges, and then I imagined a total fiasco,
and me going, “Well, sir, I don’t have the money right now, but I
could mail you $20 payments yearly for 10 years…” I drove out of
the driveway very slowly after that.
wow I can relate to everything on your list lol Thanks for
a good laugh,Ive been unemployed for 2 months and your right its
easy to fall into lazy habits and pretend to look for work when all
you want to do is nap.
Fun site…overall.
This site isn’t staying up-to-date anymore???